Klarinet Archive - Posting 000862.txt from 1998/11

From: John Dablin <johnd@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Fingering Quiz #1
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 05:24:29 -0500

I don't have any great technical insights, but I do have a thought about
style. The passage is music describing a gnome (or gnomes, I'm not
sure), and if you hear the piece these gnomes move about with sharp,
jerky movements, rather clumsily. I don't think you would want to play
it too elegantly and smoothly. I wonder, was Ravel so clever that he
deliberately scored the phrase to be difficult to play evenly?
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John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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