Klarinet Archive - Posting 001032.txt from 2003/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Polyphonic Notes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:29:01 -0500

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:07:30 -0500, joonhuh@-----.com said:

> Hey everybody. I have a question about polyphonic notes. Does anybody
> have a fingering chart for all the possible polyphonic notes for the
> clarinet?
>
> I first got a taste of polyphonic notes while I was playing "Moods for
> Solo Clarinet." There are 5 fingering suggestions for polyphonic
> notes, and I was wondering if anybody here had any other possible
> fingerings (or any other 2 notes combinations).
>
> Reason for my asking is that I'm playing in an ensemble, and when the
> guy composing the piece heard me playing polyphonic notes, he got
> really interested and decided to add some polyphonic notes to the
> piece we're playing.

"They do, they do, they always do!" (quoted from the joke about the
trial of the man who admitted behaving indecently with a sheep)

> So he's asking me what notes I can play, and since I have never
> studied this before, I was hoping I could get some help here.
>
> Please let me know. Thank you!

Others will doubtless help you. For my own part, I remember reading
somewhere that Stadler -- who, you will remember, invented the Bb
fingering:

T+Sp+xxo/xxxF#

...showed Mozart some of these multiphonic fingerings around 1790; but
unfortunately Mozart died before he had a chance to develop and include
them in his own work.

Tony
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