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Re: Double Tonguing

Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-04-11 07:49

"The "diddle" method--as described--is not at all related to what I was trying to describe as "flip""

...fair enough, I only meant that it's another method in which the tongue moves up and down. It certainly won't have the _same_ results - it's a different effect which I think also has its place.

"And as far as solo contemporary playing, I have never heard it done effectively as a way of adding to the musical intent of the composer...."

oh well, I have. :-) For quite a while some composers have just expected it to be available - think of the Ravel Introduction and Allegro for example (and diddle is very useful indeed on all those sextuplets). There's a passage in the Nielsen concerto (the più vivo before figure 33) where he's used a notation that in flute music certainly means double tonguing.

I think once we have things like that to offer, composers find interesting ways to use them. Which is how technical innovations have always worked, isn't it? I don't think Mozart wrote a concerto with no idea what the clarinet's lowest note was and then left Stadler to figure out what to do with it... ;-)

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