Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2000/11

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Jon Manasse's recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:09:16 -0500

A. Achesson (N. Ireland) writes:-

<<He would have me attack a low E, crescendo and swell &
> decrescendo while gently hitting the register key, then continue to
> decrescendo into nothing. Then repeat the process on low F, F#, G
> moving up chromatically to thumb F. I can't really describe it very
> well. >>

What would be the point of this excersise? Is this a beginners ex. for
learning to slur into the upper reg?
Is it an advanced ex. to learn control of the decrescendo?

I can understand Keith Stein`s ex. leaping from low to altissimo, but not so
clear on the above decrescendo bit.

I`m in your hands - - - -

I have always been taught crescendo & "diminuendo", not decrescendo. Is
decrescendo a real word, or an Americanised corruption? (Perhaps the Irish
corrupted it first, or the Scots, or even the Picts). For someone this side
of the plate fault to use "decrescendo", has got me all wound up,
frustrated, and somewhat angry, as it is a horrible, horrid word, don`t you
agree?

Tony W.

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