Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2004/06

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:26:36 -0400

Making a previous post, I was reminded that my friend Jens Schou used to
insist that his students be able to use glissando techniques even in such
standard pieces as the slow movement of the Mozart concerto.

This insistence had a technical rather than a musical intent. But there was
a musical bonus, in that when someone could play the opening solo clarinet
line of the Mozart slow movement using glissando between notes, Jens was able
to say:

"Now do it with a very fast glissando between notes....

....OK, now do it with an *infinitely fast* glissando between notes!"

...thereby achieving a perfect legato (the thing about legato being that you
have to keep blowing at the join between notes -- which is what playing a
glissando requires, so you're already almost there).

Tony
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