Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 2003/09

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Some Note Questions
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:56:06 -0400

In a message dated 9/22/2003 6:32:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, karlkrelove@-----.net writes:

> Beginning at number 25 eighth-note beat 4 there is a long chromatic passage
> marked "tremolo" and "trem. dental", but there's a line break there, so I
> don't know really how "trem." and "dental" fit together (if they do). How
> exposed is this and, if you know the piece, what does it mean? trill each
> note in the chromatic scale? I don't have a recording handy.>>

Regarding Ravel's "Aldorado del Gracioso" - I played this piece years ago, when I was a grad student at University of Michigan. Regarding that passage, we asked the conductor what "trem. dental" meant and he didn't know. We asked the clarinet teachers and they weren't sure. We finally wound up flutter-tonguing the passage. To this day I don't know if that was right or not.

Walter Grabner

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