Klarinet Archive - Posting 000574.txt from 2001/11

From: "Robert Moody" <LetsReason@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kabalewsky Overture to Colas Breugnon
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 08:19:45 -0500

Ah yes...thank you. A little slippage in the gears there for me.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Kabalewsky Overture to Colas Breugnon

> > -----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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