Klarinet Archive - Posting 000195.txt from 2009/03

From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Glissando vs. portamento (was: Rhapsody in Blue)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:55:05 -0400


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> >
> >Unfortunately, MANY composers do not know this and continue to
> write the words incorrectly, and often interchangably. This
> creates many interpretive problems when deciding whether to slide or not.

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This seems true- I have been through a LOT of music in my 50 years of
playing, and can't remember ever seeing "portamento" - its always "gliss."

-- How about the final run of the Copland? It starts out a gliss
(the notes are written out, and then ends "gliss" up to the final
d. Should that be "port"?

- I have never seen the part, in Copland's "El Salon Mexico" (I may
have the wrong work here) there is a DOWNWARD "portamento". How is
that indicated.
BTW, In December, I heard this played by two PIANOS at Carnegy
Hall. The downward slide then by definition became a downward gliss!

(I wish I could play piano like that. )

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