Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 2007/03

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Berio multiphonic fingerings
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:45:42 -0400

While Berio lived in Boston for two years, I taught his son clarinet
and had the opportunity to meet him on a few occasions.

Regarding the passage in the Sequenza he told me the solution he like
best with modern clarinets was to play that section up a half-step
starting from the mf D-natural after letter J up until letter L.

Then the two multiphonics can be played nicely as follows:

A+B G#+B

TO TO
A G#
o o
* *
* *
- -
* *
* *
* *
E/B E/B

The A+B multiphonic is very sensitive and must be balanced on the
edge between the A and B (it wants to go either way). The G#+B
requires much more air than the A+B.

>On 14 Mar, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> If you can get a copy of New Directions for Clarinet, there's a
>> reference in there to a dissertation work that examines the Sequenza and
>> discusses this issue in some detail.
>
>Could you give the reference, for those of us who are quite happy with the
>'old' directions? Better, tell us what the substance of the 'examination'
>and 'discussion' was?
>
>Tony
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