Klarinet Archive - Posting 000361.txt from 2002/11

From: "William Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuning for ensembles and larger
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:41:32 -0500

This is what I thought. Minors and flat keys tend to cause us to cry
(especially when we it that throat tone Bb).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Truesdail" <gir@-----.NET>
Subject: Re: [kl] Tuning for ensembles and larger

> 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
> >
> > > 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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