Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 2002/11

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuning for ensembles and larger
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:41:29 -0500

It seemed as though the music naturally wanted the minor 3rds to be
lower and I guess it was easy for the strings to do it so we all had to
go along with it. At the time (many of them) I wondered what was going
on but soon realized it was really the right thing to do as the effect
of the emotion of the music seemed to demand the adjustment.

Also, there were times there the 7th degree of the scale wanted to be
higher than normal and REALLY had a strong lead in to it's resolution to
the tonic.

GaryT

William Semple wrote:
>
> This is actually very interesting. .. what would cause this?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Truesdail" <gir@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Tuning for ensembles and larger
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> > When I was doing full-time symphonic work for 20 years there were many
> > occasions where the thirds, both minor and major of the tonic chord
> > needed to be higher or lower from what you normally play depending upon
> > which key you were in; for example the Eb in a
> > Cm chord would be lower than a D# in a B chord. Intonation just seemed
> > to fall in place better if you were aware of this. The tuning of some
> > intervals can be different in different keys.
> >
> > GaryT
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