Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2003/05

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] What on earth is he talking about?
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 23:06:00 -0400

on 5/8/2003 12:53 PM, Heinemann, Stephen wrote:

>When it's done on French horn, it's marked "lontano," meaning "distant."
>Like ventriloquism, it's an imitation of an effect and not the effect
>itself. I've never seen it marked for clarinet but it doesn't seem
>unreasonable due to the extreme softness of which the clarinet is capable.
> But perhaps it shows up in horn music because the horn's sound is usually
>so directional and the lontano is much less so.

I believe this marking shows up in one of the movements of Dominick
Argento's song cycle "To Be Sung Upon the Water".

As to the horn, the further away you can get it, the better!! ;-)

David

David Niethamer
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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