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Author: James
Date: 2001-02-01 06:46
I came across Moto Perpetuo listening to John Cohler on clarinet and Wynton Marsalis on trumpet and it totally bogles my mind how this is possible on a wind instrument. I know that they use a technique called circular breathing, but still this is almost a godly feat in my view. The evenness and beauty in tone combined with the technical virtuosity totally amazes me. I am trying to get started playing this on my clarinet. Can anybody seld me some more light about this piece of music? Thanks in advance.
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Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2001-02-01 07:13
The title of this piece means "Perpetual Motion". There have been a few pieces of this name, so which one are you talking about?
One famous one was written by Paganini as a violin piece. It is about 4 minutes long and consists entirely of semiquavers (sixteenth notes) except for the last few notes. James Galway made a recording of it on flute in the 70's and everyone said how amazing he was and that he must have used circular breathing. Afterwards, he admitted it had been done by recording it in sections and carefully splicing the sections together.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-02-01 11:13
Moto Perpetuo done by Cohler and Bob Spring is the violin piece transcribed for clarinet. Both guys use circular breathing.
I would imaging that circular breathing on flute would be significantly more difficult than on brass or woodwinds because of the lack of resistance to blowing.
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Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2001-02-01 13:11
James Galway is of course able to do circular breathing on the flute. He showed a friend of mine how to do it, although the friend never mastered it. Galway just didn't use it for his recording of Moto Perpetuo.
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Author: col
Date: 2001-02-03 02:41
i also have an interest in this piece, especially in the jonathan colher recording. I wonder if he does circular breath throughout it or whether it is also spliced together in a studio like the galway version for flute. Does anyone own the cd and if so could they clarify this , it may be mentioned in the cover.
thanks
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Author: Allison
Date: 2001-02-06 03:24
My suggestion would be to go to the website for the International Clarinet Conference (I believe there is a link at top of this page)at http://www.long.edu/icc2001/welcome.htm and ask Mr. Cohler. I think he would be happy to fill you in.
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