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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-08-30 16:39
I'm preparing to do th Nielsen concerto with orchestra, and last time I did this passage didn't go according to plan...I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
10 bars before figure 36 there's a nasty passage that goes C, Eb, Bb, Eb (top of the clarion, in to the altissimo) twice in semiquavers.
As we're going at a hell of a lick by this time, I was wondering if anyone has any advice to help with this passage. At present I'm fingering each note out, and can't consistently pitch the Ebs.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2006-08-30 16:51
You could try using an overblown throat G#. This eliminates the second break between the clarion and the altissimo, and using the harmonic fingerings makes these sorts of technical passages so much easier. The only trouble is sometimes they sound flat. It's different for everyone.
Good luck!
Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-08-30 17:01
Christopher...that's a great suggestion, thank you. I'd already tried the A key, which was ultra-fiddly.
None of the 'fake' fingerings involving the a/g sharp/register keys are too bad on my Tosca.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2006-08-30 18:37
You can leave the side key for Bb down to keep the fake Eb higher. I usually vent this Eb with the last two sidekeys but in this instance it loses its practical component.
............Paul Aviles
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-08-30 22:31
Great fingering suggestions ... as much as I adore Nielsen's symphonies, his clarinet concerto leaves me cold. Probably because I played viola in an orchestra once and his string writting is just plain difficult (though nothing like the difficulty of the solo, I know).
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-08-31 16:20
diz - Nielsen was an orchestral violinist, so presumably he knew what was playable. Maybe he had a special grudge against viola players.
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