Klarinet Archive - Posting 000641.txt from 1997/05

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Breathing in the Baerman book...
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:32:51 -0400

At 01:06 PM 5/24/97 -0500, you 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.
>
>April

Use them as suggestions of where a breath would be musically acceptable.
You can ignore the ones you don't need. It's probably a good idea, unless
you have a good musical reason, not to breathe anywhere there isn't a marking.
Karl