Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2004/06

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] glissando help
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:33:41 -0400

I've enjoyed this discussion about glissando techniques - principally
because I'm pretty useless at it, and it's given me a lot to work on.

Normally the response to help about glissando - if you look at the archives
- is 'go and look at the archives', then when you look at the archives the
main response is: 'why are you asking this, everyone's discussed it to death
already - go and look at the archives'. So it has been very helpful to me to
see such detailed and considered hints and tips.

I wish I could reach Tony's revelatory moment when the tongue position and
the semi-covered holes would let me do an octave rather than the few
micro-tones of change I can almost detect when I do it. I seem to have tried
every form of contortion my tongue is capable of (there should be a new
chapter in the Karma Sutra for this). Can everyone else on the list do this
in the way he described? I can, however, manage a limited glissando in the
clarion range using the 'sliding the fingers off' whilst keeping everything
very slack method, but that's about it. I found the suggestion about doing
mini-glisses - a semi-tone and then an interval - very helpful. So - there
is hope, but I certainly have a lot of work to do... thanks again.

Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormondtoby@-----.net]
Sent: 04 June 2004 05:14
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] glissando help

Karl wrote:

> I thought those were very large mushrooms
> suitable for stuffing with crabmeat.

Heh! You *would* have to say this just as I am halfway into my dinner
from McDonald's. All of a sudden, I'm not hungry any longer....

But on topic, I have two recordings of Rhapsody, and it's interesting to
hear how the glissandos vary. I have no idea how the physical
techniques vary (or even who the clarinetists are), but you can
certainly hear a difference. One is smooth and easy (Bernstein,
Columbia Symphony), while the other is somewhat forced and makes you
hope that the clarinetist will actually reach the top (Previn,
Pittsburgh Symphony).

imo, of course. Perhaps some people would consider the Previn version
more 'jazzy' because it isn't as smooth.

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