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Re: Extended technique

Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-06-17 11:17

well....they are done by....doing them!

It's something that requires experimentation - as with any other aspect of the oboe. For a long tone, you try a few different approaches until you like what you hear. Same thing for contemporary techniques.

Flutter tonguing is most easily accomplished, generally, with a very loose embouchure and fast air. The reed has to almost be coming out of your mouth.

glissandi is a combination of an extremely flexible embouchure, and gradual uncovering of keys. It is harder to do on oboe as we don't have any open holes. (Unless you get an oboe made with them!)

"Harmonics" is the general term for anything that is not the fundamental pitch produced by a given bore length. Low "Bb" up to 3rd space "C" is the fundamental range on the oboe. The "C#" following up to high "C" is the *octave* harmonic, and from C# to G it is the harmonics based on a *twelfth* (octave plus 5th). So the better term for those strange honky sounds is "multiphonics." They are the result of special fingerings that have been discovered to produce two pitches at the same time. (usually combinations of the fundamental, and various upper harmonics) More often than not, compositions requiring multiphonics will have suggested fingerings written in.

Post Edited (2006-06-17 20:11)

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