Klarinet Archive - Posting 000792.txt from 2001/09

From: Virginia Anderson <assembly1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Tenuto as force
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:52:27 -0400

on 24/9/01 9:15 pm, Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU> wrote:

> Some musical dictionaries occasionally oversimplify. This
> issue may not be entirely black and white.

One has to look for the mark in context as to whether it is held or
emphasised. Most recently, I've used the horn theme in Strauss's _Don Juan_
(bar 314) in a foundation humanities summer course. The solo is marked
"molto espress. e marc." but almost the only notes not slurred in the
passage are some quavers with "legato" marks. In a tone poem with a
literary association, it's clear that these notes are not just smooth and
unaccented. I play them (not uncomically on Eb clarinet) using a slight
spacing, but more importantly, with some weight and a slight drag (without
losing the rest of the orchestra, if there was one there). It's the way
I've heard most horn players do this on recordings.

There's lots of these "forceful" tenuto marks in clarinet orchestral
literature as well.

Cheers,

Virginia
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Virginia Anderson
Leicester, UK
<vanderson@-----.uk>
Experimental Music Catalogue: <http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk>
...experimental music since 1969....

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