Klarinet Archive - Posting 000120.txt from 2001/04

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] What you can say about vibrato
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:07:14 -0400

At 02:41 PM 04/06/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> Dear Roger,
>
> >However, it does not support the use of vibrato for clarinet in the 18th=
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> or 19th centuries as a common (or uncommon) performance practice for that=
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> time period. In fact, the lack of any writing from that time period=20
> referencing vibrato on the clarinet is more supportive of the lack of it=
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> as a performance practice than anything else we have (or have not) seen.
>
>I believe this is a generalisation covering too wide a period of music=20
>history. In fact there is evidence through one of M=FChlfeld's relatives=
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>(who heard the great man play) that M@-----.

Nick,

I have no disagreemnet with you regarding what one of M=FChlfeld's relatives=
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might have written. My statement above however does not generalize - it=20
just says that what Dan Leeson posted regarding comments made in a treatise=
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regarding vocal vibrato does not support the use of vibrato for clarinet in=
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the 18th or 19th centuries as a common (or uncommon) performance practice=20
for that time period.

That is all that my comment said. In that context (which is how I intended=
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it and how I wrote it), it was not a generalism - it was a specficism!

I hope you can find out more about what was written - either through Tony=20
Pay as you suggest or from some other source. I find the entire discussion=
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to be very interesting - especially since I like using vibrato in Brahms=20
more than I do in Mozart!

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes=20
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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