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Author: Keil
Date: 2002-08-31 01:07
I'm going out on a limb here but i have a question... is it traditional for clarinetist from the old french school to use a slight decorative vibrato? Is that one of the attributes associated with a seasoned french style player?
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Author: William
Date: 2002-08-31 16:09
The style of playing commonly referred to as "French" is more defined by the light and rather bright quality of sound used for performance. The use of vibrato is a whole different "can of worms" not related to any particular school of clarinet thought and practice, except maybe jazz.
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Author: Keil
Date: 2002-08-31 16:23
So it's merely coincidental that the few "french" clarinetists i've heard use vibrato as an expressive tool? awww... very enlightening... thank you william
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Author: BP (F)
Date: 2002-08-31 20:24
Vibrato is not a part of the typical french style.
From tradition, people as Guy Dangain and maybe Guy Deplus wrote or said that using vibrato is quite an heresy. "the clarinet doesn't need that artifice"
Teachers in High School may ask not to use vibrato.
But things are changing.
Michel Portal has always been using a lot of vibrato.
And Paul Meyer as well.
The new french school represented by Michel Arrignon and Jacques Di Donato are now using quite a lot of vibrato.
I would be very interested to play with people from US, just to know if our manners of playing are different or if they are not really.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-08-31 21:39
Yes, I recognize that vibrato is becoming a more accepted technique for musical expression on the clarinet. And why not??? Vocalists, string and most other wind instrument players have been using it tastefully for years. The question should rather be, "what has taken the clarinet community so long to get aboard??"
But I still maintain that vibrato is not a "French" technique, but rather a universal expressive tool used by all schools of musical performance.
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Author: charles
Date: 2002-09-01 04:44
It's my personal opinion that some people choose to use vibrato in certain places to add too it, but I dont find it nessisary (excuse my spelling little too late to worry about it) I think that vibrato is a nice effect, but the clarinet has such a beautiful dark straight tone, that some other instruments dont get, not to say they sound bad, but in particular I think the clarinet has such a sound that why should you feel to add to it, just enjoy what is created by the simple matter or a piece of wood straped onto another piece of wood vibrating to make one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Charles
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