Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 1997/05

From: April <ashallen@-----.edu>
Subj: Breathing in the Baerman book...
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 14:06:47 -0400

Hello all...

I have a question that some of you might be able to answer. I have been
practicing some of the etudes in the Baerman method book, and I am a bit
confused about all of the breath marks. It seem s like every two bars or
so there is one of those little marks that looks like a half note with an
eighth note flag on it, and I am wondering if you are really supposed to
end the phrases at each of these and take a breath, or if they are more
like' suggestions' as to where breaths coud be taken. It just doesn's
sound very musical to keep breathing all the time, but if that's th
intention I'd lik to learn them correctly. I looked in the front of the
book and it just said that that symbol notated 'when to breathe' but it
just doesn't seem right.

Thank you everyone for any help you might be able to give!

Happy playing, and may all your reeds be good ones! :-)

April

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April J. Shallenberg
University of Arkansas
e-mail: ashallen@-----.edu
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