This is something that I've wondered about for years...is tonguing normally used throughout this piece? It's played so fast on recordings that it's difficult to tell...surely you'd have to be SuperFlautist to tongue it?! OR is there a tonguing method used?
Best regards,
Lucy-Jane
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Most editions will show slurs, I believe. Of course, there is some tonguing involved, but it's unusual that the sheetmusic would show everything as being tongued. Should you choose to tongue it, you'll almost certainly need to be quite capable with double tonguing to get it up to tempo. It's not a terribly difficult piece (most chromatics), so if you can get your fingers working without you needing to think about them too much, I suppose you could throw some double tonguing in on top as a bit of a gimmick.
Thanks for the info! That's quite a relief; it really seemed impossible to tongue it all the way through...wonder why my versions have it tongued? Guess it seemed too much like stating the obvious to mark in the slurs! Now I can get cracking with it!
I believe it was originally written for orchestra as part of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Since then it's been transcribed for almost any instrument imagineable.
There is tonguing in this piece. But not very much. you know when you do the chromatic "e" through "c" the "e" is tongued. every 8 16th note is tongued. at least in my peice of music. but it is very light.
searching...
But v. encouraging if it's slurred elsewhere...
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