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Re: staccato after slur

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-07-22 23:37

I'm not sure about exactly what you are asking. But I'll answer in what may be just as confusing a way.

Robert Marcellus was pretty adamant about stopping the last note of a slur short PRIOR to a staccato note. In other words, you create a hair's more space between the slurred notes and the staccato note(s) for clarity.

Hovever

Another clarinetist I highly respect, Michael Rusinek, is just as adamant about playing the last note of a slurred group going into a staccato full value. To me that doesn't explain the clarity inherent in turning that figure around. That is, two tongued notes going into two slurred. By nature of the staccato, you get separation of the two figures. But I love Rusinek anyway.

................Paul Aviles

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