Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2004/06

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Legato in general (was, glissando help)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:12:31 -0400


-Thats interesting. I have often approached it from a very different standpoint. I will have the pupil (I do it myself as well of course) blow the phrase using as much air as possible but without allowing a tone to come. Then mixed tone and air. Then just tone. It does wonders for the support and the legato. I am eager to try out this alternative method. Thanks very much Tony!
David

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DATE: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:10
From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
To: klarinet@-----.org
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>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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