Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 2004/06

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] glissando help
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:07:25 -0400

Tony=A0Pay wrote (in a vein similar to what Karl Krelove also wrote):

> I don't think anyone said that a piano can't
> play a glissando. It's just that what's *called* a
> glissando on the piano isn't the same as
> what's called a glissando on the clarinet.

No argument from me. Something else was going on in my mind, namely
the recurring theme of interpreting music in its proper context. As
you said:

> See, I think it's not worthwhile trying to define
> what is 'meant' by a word like 'glissando'. It
> has different meanings in different contexts.

Initially, I was laboring under a misunderstanding about the word's
history (which is why the discussion was educational for me), and I
thought it was appropriate to discuss the word's larger musical context
as well as its clarinet context. At a minimum, I was initially in
danger of bringing away from this discussion a distorted concept of
"glissando". Among the 900+ list members, presumably I was not
completely alone in my miscomprehension.

That's all I meant to say. Thanks.

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