Klarinet Archive - Posting 000853.txt from 2001/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] gliss & portamento
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:23:08 -0500

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From: "Roger Shilcock"
<roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subject: RE: [kl] gliss & portamento

> There are places in the clarinet parts for "La Boheme" (Puccini)
> where the term "portando" is used. What do other people do here, please???
> Yours,
> Roger S.
>

portando comes from the Italian verb meaning "to carry". So I think it
simply means to hold the note right up to the following note.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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