Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 1998/01

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: triple concerto; reed flapping at pp dynamics
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:03:27 -0500

Re; Triple concerto, Don Martino wrote one for Bb, bass and contrabass
clarinet in the 70s, it is recorded by Nonesuch.

Re; reed on mpc at pp, from Benade's Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics,
page 446, I quote:

"It is a matter of a musician's taste whether he chooses to make use of
a stiff reed and an open facing...or the opposite extreme--a soft reed
and an close facing...In the first case he can play a large part of his
total dynamic range in such a way that the reed tip never copmletely
closes the (mpc) aperture at its end, so that there is a considerable
change intone color as he changes the vigor of his blowing...In the
other extreme style, the reed aperture goes shut for a considerable
portion of each cycle of its oscillation diring normal playing....Most
players today make an intermediate choice in which they cover the entire
range of musical possibility, and the reed tip closes at each swing only
when one is playing above a mezzo-forte level."

This was proven in the lab with visual and pressure methods.

There is much, much, more, including a comparison of German and French
mpc styles, but I am tired and have to work on some charts. Arthur H
Benade, FMA, Dover 0 486 26484 x, ISBN number also 0 486 26484 x, $15.95
in USA. Enjoy it.

Robert Howe

   
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