Klarinet Archive - Posting 000447.txt from 1999/01

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re:side to side
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:38:40 -0500

David's post regarding side-to-side articulation does not define double
tonguing (above). Double tonguing is based on the concept of the front and
the back of the tongue, as David has correctly described above. Brass
players and flute players - also bassoonists (!) are able to double tongue
using the tu-ku, or du-gu, etc. syllables that were taught by Herbert
Clark and Arban at the turn of the 20th Century.
The side to side tonguing was demonstrated to me by David Shifrin - and
he could really do it well! I have never been able to initiate it as he
showed me - so I learned to double tongue (traditional). But the single
tongue up to 200 seems to be very possible with the side-to-side approach.
My understanding is that it also provides a very nice, light sound.
RG
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Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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Side to side, I can do 285+ . I don't call it double, not single. My
students call it super tonguing. I call it a circus trick, but it works
really, really well in the Corigliano Concerto during the "play as fast as
you can" tongued passages.

David Blumberg - My Tempo Accompaniments for Woodwind Players
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/david_blumberg/
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