Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 1997/04

From: "A. Bailes" <bardel@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: questions #3
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:28:44 -0500

A. Bailes wrote:
>
> Nathaniel Johnson wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> Hi Nathaniel--- I note that things are quiet at the moment regarding
> topics of interest - we have just averted an outbreak of the equivalent
> of the clarinet-players Foot and Mouth disease by learning from some of
> our educated friends that we must drink a bottle of either Scope or
> Scotch each day - the religious nut keeps pushing whenever an excuse
> arises - and friend Leesen is still in hibernation, so why not start a
> glissando discussion anyway?
> Peter Randell. Toronto. Canada.

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