Klarinet Archive - Posting 000824.txt from 1999/09

From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Non-swinging crocodiles
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:19:06 -0400

Tony,

Me thinks that you have to much time to think.

Jay Webler
Jay's Clarinet and Percussion
>
>Crocodiles mostly fornicate slowly.
>
>If you say the preceding sentence, not too fast, imagining that the
>beginnings of the words show a regular steady pulse, I think you will
>detect that it's natural to speed up the beginnings of the
>three-syllable words and slow down the beginnings of the two-syllable
>words.
>
>Then passage Q becomes, say:
>
>Crocodile A
>And crocodile B
>Were chattering
>Lazily
>Under a tree.
>
>etc.
>
>And by playing with the colours of the syllables in the faster 'Croco-'
>bit, you can achieve the relaxed feel in a way that is much more natural
>-- to me, at any rate.
>
>I don't deny that you *could* do it the other way -- try saying it to
>yourself both ways -- but I think that to do so naturally requires a
>quite high degree of swing, rather than the gentle one David is talking
>about.
>
>(I can't quite find the joke about there 'not being enough room to swing
>a crocodile'. It's in there somewhere.)
>
>Anyone want to try completing and/or modifying the poem?-)
>
>Tony
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