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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2005-05-20 14:38
Hey all
So I'm doing Weber 2nd concerto, 1st movement, and I'm having trouble pertaining to where I'm going to breathe because there isn't really a break anywhere!
So where's best to breathe between 118 and 130? And then again at 220 to 234?
At the moment I've got a 'plan' but I'm just wondering where you all put the breaths in.
Thanks so much for your help!
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Author: Llewsrac
Date: 2005-05-20 16:08
Breath after down beat C mm 126, & mm 128
Breath after 4th count mm 230
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2005-05-20 20:12
Take as many short breaths as you need during any of the sixteenth rests. You can also convert any eighth note into a sixteenth note and a sixteenth rest and breathe during the rest.
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Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2005-05-20 22:28
You would not be thought a loser to remove the second of a group of sixteenths to breathe. Properly chosen and performed, an audience may not even realize it wasn't written that way. Most of the time, only other clarinetists would know and they would understand.
Ideally, work it out to get all of the notes. If it makes the passage so treacherous in your mind that it lends to any nervousness, take out the sixteenth-note and breathe.
Good luck and let us know what you come up with and how it works out for you in the performance.
Take care,
Robert Moody
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Post Edited (2005-05-20 22:28)
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2005-05-21 00:20
Thanks Llewsrac, that's what I'm doing! Are these breaths standard?
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Author: Llewsrac
Date: 2005-05-21 00:57
Standard?? The breath marks I indicated work for me when performed up to tempo without leaving notes out.
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2005-05-21 13:52
It helps to play with extra strong support as you approach a breath point.
Then, relaxing and immediately reflexing your abdominal muscles allows you to maximise your air intake over a short period of time.
Tony
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2005-05-21 22:37
I performed it recently. For me, the toughest stretch was going from 1 before rehearsal S to rehearsal T (Cundy edition -- I believe all editions have common rehearsal letters); the short 16th rests in the section after R were hardly enough to fill up the ol' tank for to last the stretch. Cheat the first set of 16ths on count 2 the measure before S to take in a big load of gas for the stretch. Failing that (as I did on performance day, darnitall...), drop the last three 16ths 4 measures before T, right before the Bb-C-Bb-G-E-C-Bb-G-F-E-F-A-C stuff and gas up again. You to play those last three measure before T with strength and confidence.
Try your darndest, though, to not cheat the note lengths right before eighth and sixteenth rests -- or at least don't cheat too many, as it really detracts from the operatic nature of the piece. Good luck
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2005-05-22 05:23
Thanks for that.
I did it today and it went off without a hitch!
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