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RECOURSES AND DIFFICULTIES

 

Clarinet is one of both instruments with more resources of all the wind instruments. Like flute, can solve very difficult passages with facility, thanks to its diversity of keys that provide to the executant several ways to be called on a same passage and thus to choose the digitación or more comfortable way. He is remarkable its versatility, variety of melodics drawings and resistance of registers.

Bound . All the notes with facility on scales, arpegios, and any type of rythmical figures at great speeds and with mobility of character can be bound. The bound ones between two different registries, in descendent and repeated form can generate certain difficulty, mainly, if the distance between two notes exceeds 12th.

Stacatto . It is a very valuable resource in the instrument, that exploded suitably it offers great contributions. Its average rapidity is of:

but it can be superior in short passages.

Less it is accentuated than the one of the Oboe, but it can be drier and acute than the one of flute. The language blows vary from sforzando to a very smooth attack. Over D 3 stacatto is difficult, for that reason it is due to avoid. Also it increases the difficulty on notes nonrepeated.

Trinos . All the major and minor trinos can until a G 3

The trinos between

single they are possible to be obtained with a good effect when the instrument has an additional key.

Also the trinos present difficulties between:

Tremolo . It has very good effect, mainly, in the serious registry or chalumeau, but intervals superior to the one sixth greater one are not due to use. With the clarino registry, they do not advise to intervals greater than one perfect fourth and with high and high-pitched, the positions they are very difficult or strangers, without a good result is obtained.

The tremolos that involve notes

and his twelfth superior ones, are extremely difficult therefore are not used, despite some new keys can ensure their completion.

Shades . The instrument allows to widen or to diminish with dominion the sounds, obtaining a variety of shades with much wealth in the orchestra. Pianissimo can be almost inaudible, as much that in some scores it is indicated like echo sound.

The crescendos and decrescendos are executed perfectly like sforzando , sudden piano or forte , accents and fortísimos .

Frullati . Is also known as dental Tremolo and is used, like in the Oboe, for decorativ effects.

Glisando . It is used mainly in the pop music as adornment or to produce a humorous effect. Many people consider it detrimental for the transmission technique.

Damper . It is a species of cover in cardboard within which the instrument is placed and with two lateral orifices to introduce the hands. The resulting sound is beautiful, velvety and dark. It has been used in Iris of Mascagni and soon in the jazz. Nowadays it is not used and she is little well-known by the present executants.

Breathing. A good technique can provide to the executant a time in the execution of the sound approximated in 40 seg. in piano and 25 seg. in forte, taking like reference the sounds from E to C 3 . For the high notes the duration is smaller.

Virtuosity . All the characteristics previously mentioned turn to clarinet in ideal for all class of fast passages, on diatonic scales, chromatic, or arpegios and allow to the instrumentist one or the composer to explore new possibilities of effects on the resources that it has.

Everything is almost allowed in clarinet, except the quick characteristics in the high-picked one, the changes fast and repeated between the registers and other few things already described.

Contemporary music on approval puts the abilities of the executant and it allows him to boast of them to demonstrate that along with flute, is the instrument of better possibilities between the family of winds.

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