Klarinet Archive - Posting 000631.txt from 1997/05

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Breathing in the Baerman book... (fwd)
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:32:41 -0400

April,
Is your book "edited" by someone? If I remember correctly,
Bellison edited some of them for Carl Fischer. Often breath marks (and
articulation/phrase
markings) are put in by the editor because he/she feels that they either
1) make the exercise more effective, 2) makes it more playable for the
targeted audience, 3) corrects a perceived deficiency in the original,
etc.
As a teacher, I usually disregard markings which seem patently
superfluous, such as those extra breath marks. Maybe someone once thought
they were useless oops, (I mean useful!)
but if they really get in the way, you can probably feel
little guilt in ignoring them. Just my $.02

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Sat, 24 May 1997, April wrote:

> 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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