4.3. Combination of Breath- and Fingerglissando

Description

The effects of breath- and finger glissando can reinforce each other (combination of crescendo with rising finger glissando or decrescendo with finger glissando down). This allows the limits of the registers to be extended considerably in some cases, as can be seen from the examples given above. Breath- and finger glissando can also run in opposite directions. Examples of both can be found in Isang Yun’s Chinese Pictures (1993).

Compositions

Isang Yun:

Chinese Pictures  (1993):     

– Crescendo with rising glissando:

Part 1, The Visitor to the Idyll, bar 3

Part 2, The Hermit at the Water, bar 22

– Crescendo with glissando down:

Part 1, The Visitor to the Idyll, bar 11

Part 3, The Shepherd’s Flute, bar 26

Rolf Riehm:

Weeds in Ophelia’s Hair (1991)

– p.14, line 59: Finger glissando combined with breath glissando

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