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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-03-04 19:06
I'm disappointed that no one who has played this has chimed in with any help. I doubt if many clarinetists (I imagine there may be a few), even skilled ones, could do this on an Eb clarinet at the written dynamic with real flutter-tongue. My best suggestion not ever having had to perform this part would be to try humming as you play the notes otherwise normally. Jazz players do this all the time to produce a kind of "dirty" or growling effect.
It's a head-scratching spot, looking at the score. It's there, I think clearly, as a sound effect, but it's structural in that violins echo it shortly after still at PP as a trill and the oboes, albeit at F answer after that. Must be some kind of Alpine bird call. So it isn't as though it can be left out without lessening the effect, and the flutter effect is important for unity with the echo and response, so it really can't be played with straight tone, either without musical loss. It makes me wonder if Strauss knew someone who could actually do it, or if someone told him it was doable, or if he just assumed since it could be done fairly easily at a lower pitch level that those two notes should be fine as well.
Maybe, since the violins have trills and not tremolo, the Eb clarinet can substitute a trill instead of the flutter without losing the consistency?
I hope someone who has played the part will offer some help. I'm interested, too, to know how this is best accomplished.
Karl
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maiohmai |
2018-03-03 07:22 |
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Re: Eb Clarinet and Flutter Tongue new |
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kdk |
2018-03-04 19:06 |
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qp |
2018-03-05 03:27 |
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