Klarinet Archive - Posting 000955.txt from 1997/03

From: Nathaniel Johnson <clarinat@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: questions #3
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 02:24:14 -0500

I am not familiar with this CD, but it sounds to me like you are talking
about a glissando. This is where the pitch goes up (or down, but more
often they are written up in my experience) without stopping on distinct
notes along the way. Think of the note that you are playing as the
ground floor of a building and the note you are going to as the second
floor. Playing a scale (or just a run of some sort) is taking the stairs
up, whereas playing a glissando is like sliding up a ramp. As for how to
accomplish this technique, let us know for sure if this is what you are
talking about and we can start a glissando discussion.

Nathaniel Johnson
Conductor / Clarinettist
All-Around Good Guy
University of Northern Colorado
clarinat@-----.com

On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:33:33 -0800 Douglas Barton <DOBARTON@-----.NET>
writes:
>Greetings.
>I have a couple of questions that I hope people won't find stupid.

<snip>

>3. Lastly, on Emma Johnson's CD Encores, there is a tune by Paul
>Harvey
>called Etude on "It Ain't Necessarily So." About two minutes into the
>tune, it sounds like she plays a scale without changing fingerings.
>Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Am I hearing this
>correctly? If so, how? I didn't think you could change notes without
>changing fingerings...