Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 2005/01

From: "John D. Stackpole" <jstackpo@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Rhapsody in Blue Gliss
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:24:49 -0500

OK, but what would you mean by a "smear" - can't find the word in my
musical dictionary... ;-)

Or do you mean "smear" = legato - one note immediately following the
previous one with no little moment of silence in-between.

JDS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Rhapsody in Blue Gliss

I'm with you, John. I'm no professional, but I always assumed a
glissando wasn't necessarily a smear at all. At least, not written.
I thought the gershwin was a wavy line, not a curved line - the latter
which (to me) would indicate a smear, and the former being a
glissando.

Oh, what do I care.. I'm 5th chair in a community band subbing on an
eefer! :)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:52:43 -0500, John D. Stackpole
<jstackpo@-----.org> wrote:
> A physics (sorta) question...
>
> If one (not me, that's for sure) is playing the glissando are you
not
> playing EVERY tone from start to finish? A continuous run thru the
> frequencies (at least in principle)? Even those in between C and
C#,
> for example. And every other "normal" discrete pair of notes?
>
> That would be, in sense, "more" that chromatic, and certainly more
> than diatonic.
>
> Or am I just demonstrating that I don't really know what a proper
> glissando is.
>
> JDS
> ----- Original Message -----
>

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