Klarinet Archive - Posting 000470.txt from 2004/03

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Teaching clarinet embouchure: scientific/anatomical study
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:19:20 -0500

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:01:36 -0330
To: <klarinet@------.org>
From: "Karin Berman" <berman@------.sympatico.ca>
Subject: RE: [kl] Teaching clarinet embouchure: scientific/anatomical
study
Message-ID: <KFEKJOKNMOEFIAMOIPOFAEGFCJAA.berman@------.sympatico.ca>

Noel Beck wrote:

>Does anyone know if there has been any scientific/anatomical study on
the
>embouchure and sound development?

My teacher recently gave me a copy of an article by Michael Webster.
It was
the 22nd in a series of articles using excerpts from a teaching method
in
progress, by Michael Webster, (associate professor of clarinet at Rice
University's Shepherd School of music..). This was a very interesting
article about the shape of the oral cavity/inside of the mouth,
comparing
tongue and throat activity among woodwind instruments. Studies made on
this
date back from as far as 1965. This particular article was called
"Partial
to Partials" Part 11. I think it was published in "The Clarinet"
(International Clarinet Association) and it must have been published
in a
recent edition. I am still in the process of subscribing to this
journal
( having problems getting Canadian dollars to the USA, no visa
internet
payment facility available... still trying to figure out how to pay. )
I am
sure many members on this list are receiving "The Clarinet". It is
possible
that there have been articles like this, about the embouchure, in
previous
publications.

I thought Michael Webster's article was magnificent.

Karin Berman

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I'd like to see Websters article!
There is a really REALLY good book by Maurice M. Porter published by
Boosey& Hawkes titled "The Embouchure" 142 page and goes into great
detail on Wind Players mechanics to Embouchure. My copy cost $25 about
12 years ago.

Who here but a Doctor would have ever heard of the Frenulum linguae,
or the Papillary openings of submandibular ducts??

:)

David Blumberg
http://artists.primetones.com/blummy (new tracks)