Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 2000/11

From: A4ACHESON@-----.com
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Re: Jon Manasse's recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:10:04 -0500

In a message dated 3/11/00 12:12:24 pm, you wrote:

<<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?>>

Not sufficiently to raise my blood pressure, and I was quoting! At least the
meaning of 'decrescendo' is obvious, 'crescendo decrescendo' seeming a more
obvious pairing than 'crescendo & "diminuendo"'.

The purpose of the exercise in Stein's book was to establish as consistent an
embouchure as possible between registers.

A Acheson

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