Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 1998/06

From: "Jim Williams" <bytemiser@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 6 Jun 1998 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 154
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:37:41 -0400

Mark,
I was working on the Christmann cadenza from Stamitz Concerto in E flat,
which has a similar pattern. I found leaving the the c#/g# key open on the
high g seemed to help even out the scale:

D E F G A

T T T T T
O O O O O
X X X X X
X X X X X
L4 L4

X O O X O
O O O X O
O O O O O
R4 R4 R4 R4 R4

It might be worth a try.

Jim Williams

>
>Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 14:04:14 -0400
>To: Klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
>From: "Mark A. Bradley" <markb@-----.com>
>Subject: Fingerings for Saint Saëns Sonate
>
>Hello to all.
>
>I will be performing the final movement of the Saint Saëns Sonate for
>clarinet. In one part there is a sixteenth note run that ends with the
>last five notes going from high D to altissimo A. The tempo is molto
>allegro. Here are the fingerings I have been using:
>
> D | E | F | G | A
>RK T |RK T |RK T |RK T |RK T
> o | o | o | o | o
> * | * | * | * | *
> * | * | * | * | *
> | | L4| |
> * | o | o | * | o
> o | o | o | * | o
> o | o | o | o | o
> R4| R4| R4| R4| R4
>
>What I am asking, is two things:
>The "A" played here is really just an E overblown to the A. Is there a
>modification of that fingering that would make the overblow easier to
>reach? I can't remember offhand but for the overblown A is it the
>speaker key (G#/Eb) or the F#/C# key that should be held down?
>
>Is this the easiest or most practical fingering for this particular
>sixteenth note run? It starts on a low chalumeau E and continues up to
>the A, and it is only the high and altissimo register fingerings which
>are difficult. If the description is too vague I can give more
>information.
>
>Thanks for any thoughts or help.
>--
>Mark A. Bradley
>markb@-----.com

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