Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2008/04

From: "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Altissimo in "Sing, Sing, Sing"
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:07:48 -0400

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> From: Joseph Wakeling
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:14 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Altissimo
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> Talking of Benny Goodman-related stuff, I think he's got the earliest
> high C on a recording, though I've never actually heard the tune (I
> think it's "Sing, sing, sing"?).
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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:14:59 GMT
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: "Harold Smith" <s3856lpa@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Altissimo
> Message-ID: <BAY113-DAV129654D4EC7CA57D1DD63EDFEA0@-----.gbl>
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> I could be wrong (and usually am), but I believe the dramatic top note on
> Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" solo was Altissimo B (A concert).
>
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> Regards.
> Harold
>

Goodman's "dramatic" note might be the altissimo B (A concert), a.k.a. B6
(A6 concert), but the highest note is the D (C7 concert) a minor third
higher after the B has mostly trailed off. I've often thought that the D7
could have been a happy mistake; it can be done with the same fingering as
the B6, and Goodman follows it almost immediately with a lower note that
seems out of character with the climactic idea.

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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