Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2004/06

From: "Gillian Craven" <gillian_craven@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:32:11 -0400

Thanks for your help Tony and everybody else. I tried playing with
mouthpiece and barrel and did manage to change pitch but not always at close
intervals !! I will experiment more tomorrow. I still seem to be useless at
it but Im sure it will come with time !
I was told to try bending pitch then fingering following note for the whole
way up the scale to top F but will try what has been suggested since this
didn't sound very smooth.

Thanks

Gillian

>From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
>Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:10 +0100
>
>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
>--
>_________ Tony Pay
> |ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd tony.p@-----.org
> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE http://classicalplus.gmn.com/artists
> tel/fax 01865 553339
>
>... Laugh? I nearly started!
>
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