Author: clariniano
Date: 2009-07-08 13:52
I'm kind of conflicted on the practice of long tones, I know of at least a couple of pieces that have a sustained long tone (the end of the Finzi Carol from Five Bagatelles, and the end of the Lullaby movementof Srul Irving Glick's Suite Hebraique.
On the other hand, students build up their brath control by playing pieces of various phrase lengths, among my favourites for that is the Larghetto from Mozart's clarinet quintet.
And some students create tension when they practice long tones.
Even for developing tone quality, I find students don't really listen to their tone qualty, and tere are better ways to develop a fine sound concept.
So, that's one of my musical confessions, I rarely practice long tones, and rarely have students practice them.
Meri
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