Klarinet Archive - Posting 000194.txt from 2005/01

From: Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue Gliss
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:24:37 -0500

I do 1) because it is easy whereas 2) is very difficult (I think a
gliss in the lower register is tricky and across the break almost
impossible. That's my twopennyworth. I've not researched the original
intentions, so I've no idea what is "right" but I've only ever heard 1)
on recordings, so ... what else can I say?

Roger H

--- Bryan Crumpler <crumpletox@-----.com> wrote:
> 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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