Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2005/01

From: "Bryan Crumpler" <crumpletox@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue Gliss
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:55:01 -0500

Hi all

Had a recent disagreement about how to play the gliss in the opening of
Rhapsody in Blue and I wanted to gather some outside opinions. I don't want
to get into the whole original intentions of Gershwin with the "scale" or
anything. I've already read plenty of literature on the subject and
understand how the scale morphed into a gliss... but I just want to ask if
people 1) play chromatically up until the D (4th line in the staff) and then
gliss OR 2) start the gliss immediately after the low G trill? Seems to me,
people would do the first as a matter of technical ease, but why not do it
the second way if you can feasibly gliss the entire range of the horn?

Regards,
Bryan

http://www.whosthatguy.com

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