Klarinet Archive - Posting 000279.txt from 2001/03

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb to D trill
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 01:10:56 -0500

<><> Robyn Brown wrote:
I was not aware that the number of bars affected the speed (I have
generally only seen three, never less or more). Would these be played as
sixteenths or thirty-seconds?

There are two types of tremolos: measured and unmeasured.

In a measured tremolo, the number of bars indicates the speed, and
three bars would be the same as three flags on a note -- namely, 1/32
notes.

In an unmeasured tremolo, the speed is "as fast you can."

Two whole notes with three bars between them is an *unmeasured*
tremolo. (My dictionary says that this is the "traditional unmeasured
tremolo". Perhaps there is a more modern convention of which I'm
unaware?)

In order for two notes to be a measured tremolo, in which the
number of bars indicates a particular speed, one of the bars must be a
beam that connects the stems of the two notes, with the other bars
floating free and not connected to the stems.

Cheers,
Bill

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