Klarinet Archive - Posting 000901.txt from 2001/06

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Breathing
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:21:46 -0400

Sue wrote

>>

The flagged half notes are indeed breath marks, and I quite agree with you -
some of them are in strange places and there are ltogether too many of them.
I don't observe all of them - I just choose the ones where either I or the
phrasing requires a breath.

<<

In my opinion the only one to decide where to breath is the one who is
playing the piece. I always get irritated by breathing marks in the printed
editions: if it was the composer who wants me to breathe in a particular
space, he would have built in a rest or an another way clear point, for
instance by way of phrasing arcs. Whn the editor added those breathing
points, these always are either too close together, or too far apart.

Sometimes I study string music by good old Johan Sebastian Bach, either in
the "original" version, or in the transcription published by Lancelot. Bach
never added phrasing signs. Lancelot never did. And, like in the etudes by
Uhl, you sometimes wonder where to fil your lungs again. I found out it
sometimes is necessary to drop a few notes, but where to do so is almost
always evident from the music, not from editor's additions. Usually I decide
before tartingf on these works, where it is probably best to breath, but
during the time I study say a prelude, these points can change. With written
pause inserts that would be impossible, wouldn't it?

Rien

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