Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2004/06

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:49:57 -0400

On 1 Jun, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Tell me about Jens Schou. He is no fool when he gives advice in such
> thoughtful packages.

And of course, the brilliant thing about the advice is that it works (say, in
the Mozart) *even if you can't actually play the glissandos*!

Tony
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