Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 2003/09

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Some Note Questions
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:41:32 -0400

In a message dated 9/22/2003 1:46:56 PM 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.>>
> >

Jeanjean's "Vade Mecum" makes a distinction between "tremolo" and "dental tremolo" in the introduction to Etude IV. It defines an "ordinary tremolo" as being produced by "very tight blows with the tongue" and a "dental tremolo" or "tremolo on trills" as being obtained by pronouncing "Trrrr..." So, I would think that a "dental tremolo" is what I know as flutter tonguing.
Sue Schwaegler

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