Klarinet Archive - Posting 000199.txt from 2005/01

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rhapsody in Blue Gliss
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:44:05 -0500

I don't think it can be done successfully or smoothly because the
clarinet must break into its first overtone at B natural, the twelfth
above the fundamental register.

RB

On Jan 13, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Karl Krelove wrote:

> Bryan,
>
> I've never heard anyone seriously attempt the gliss from the bottom of
> the
> passage (after the trill) and I don't know if it can be done
> effectively (I
> know I can't). But you've left out a third way that I've heard as
> often as
> your #1 - many players on recordings I've heard finger all the way up
> to G
> before starting to slide. And it isn't universal to go up to wherever
> the
> slide starts chromatically - it's effective to just finger a diatonic C
> major scale up past the break and then start into the smear wherever
> you're
> able to do it reliably. The notation in the part, after all, is for a
> diatonic scale all the way up, not chromatic.
>
> Karl Krelove

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