Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 2001/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Kabalewsky Overture to Colas Breugnon
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:29:34 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Moody [mailto:LetsReason@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:34 PM
>
> <<my problem is the incessant tonguing of eight notes at half=138!>>
>
> If that is truly the situation, Larry Combs, Tony Pay and anyone else on
> this list probably could not team up and get all the notes. I
> don't know of
> any human-being alive that can toungue 16ths at quarter @-----.
>
Well, probably not, but I think he meant eighth-notes, not sixteenths (8
notes). Half notes at 138 is a little faster than a Sousa march. The
problem, if I remember the band arrangement of Colas correctly, is the
endlessness of the repeated notes, an effect that is much more manageable on
bowed strings. Sometimes you can get by with re-arranging the notes,
splitting them up by measures, or even half measures, so stand partners
alternate playing and resting. Works best if you overlap by a note. I'm
certain, though, that there are many players who can, with occasional stops
for air, do these passages without help. It's a lot of trouble for an effect
we weren't meant to produce in the first place.

Karl Krelove

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