Klarinet Archive - Posting 001004.txt from 2000/05

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Special kind of a tone
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:42:04 -0400

In a message dated 5/22/00 4:15:29 AM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org writes:

<< I just heard the Appalachian Spring by Copland.
At the beginning there is a short clarinet solo.
In the part it says "White tone".
Anyone know how to get that tone? >>

I can only speak for myself, having played it countless times and conducted
it recently. That marking is only offered over two passages, at the beginning
and the end of the work. What I want there is a soft, unmodulated quality.
Not phrased or altered dynamically, in other words, just very plain sound,
floated over the violas in the beginning and over the stacked chords in the
strings at the end.

How the player gets it is his business. As long as it is soft, in tune and
'plain' I am happy.

-David Hattner, NYC

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