Klarinet Archive - Posting 001024.txt from 2000/03

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] extended techniques
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:06:38 -0500

In a message dated 3/31/00 12:21:28 AM Central Standard Time, Niep@-----.com
writes:

<< Can anyone think of an earlier example of extended techniques than the
flutter tonguing in Berg's Four Pieces? What about the first composer
to write mulitphonics or quarter tones for the clarinet? >>

I don't know who the first composer to use multiphonics was, but according to
Rehfeldt's "New Directions for Clarinet," this was first described by Antonio
Ferrannini of the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella of Naples, according
to a book by T. Pace called "Ancie battenti" that was published in 1943.
Rehfeldt also cites jazz performances by Eric Dolphy, and notes that
beginners have been producing multiphonics (if accidentally!) for as long as
there have been beginners. :)
Microtones go back centuries, in various Eastern cultures, for instance.
Rehfeldt mentions the music of Carillo and Ives, says Busoni discusses it in
his writings, and cites a "Suite for Quartertone Clarinet and Quartertone
Piano" that was written by Alois Haba in 1924.
There, how's that for a little research this early in the morning?
Susan Schwaegler

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