Klarinet Archive - Posting 000598.txt from 2000/07

From: Spike Spiegel <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Appoggiaturas as explained in the Klose Method
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:06:06 -0400

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Karl Krelove wrote:

> I always thought that, to be completely accurate, the term "appoggiatura"
> referred to non-harmonic tones resolving downward only, and that the
> upward-resolving ones in the seventh measure of the duet had another name (I
> remember maybe "retardation," although I've never heard that name outside of
> theory class and always thought it strange there was no Italian term for
> it).

We were taught that the opposite of an Appogiatura was called an Escape
tone. Dunno why, but that's what it's called, at it's especially easy to
remember.

Escape tone - approached with a step up and then a leap down.
Appogiatura - approached with a leap up and then a step down.

We were taught to remember this by thinking of "escaping" from a burning
building (or perhaps prison, etc...) - step up onto the window sill and
then leap down to safety. Then the exact opposite, with the funny name,
wouldn't be so hard to remember. ^_^

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"Never put passion before principle. Even when win, you lose."
-Miyagi-san, KKpt.II

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