Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??

    
Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    04:04 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

roseanglaise
(17 points)
Posted by roseanglaise

Hi all,

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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Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    09:10 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

Account Closed
(491 points)
Posted by Account Closed

in the music, i thought it was slurred...


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    09:48 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

roseanglaise
(17 points)
Posted by roseanglaise

Not in my copies! But v. encouraging if it's slurred elsewhere...


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    11:27 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

Flutist06
(1545 points)
Posted by Flutist06

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.


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    12:17 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

roseanglaise
(17 points)
Posted by roseanglaise

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!


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    12:52 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

Patrick
(1743 points)
Posted by Patrick

it is slurred, even in the original orchestral version, but a great idea to practice it staccatto, especially double tongued


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    12:52 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

Patrick
(1743 points)
Posted by Patrick

it is slurred, even in the original orchestral version, but a great idea to practice it staccatto, especially double tongued


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    15:11 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

anders101
(65 points)
Posted by anders101

Got a question, what instrument/s was it written for originally?


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    17:20 on Friday, October 12, 2007          

Flutist06
(1545 points)
Posted by Flutist06

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.


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    05:56 on Saturday, October 13, 2007          

Bilbo
(1340 points)
Posted by Bilbo

Yes, it is originally for the whole orchestra. The melody is passed around the different instruments.
See this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41DykcpgRg


I believe that the flutist in the above version is Andreas Blau.


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    14:28 on Saturday, October 13, 2007          

anders101
(65 points)
Posted by anders101

I've just seen that and I admit that is better than the version that is widely heard today for just solo instrument and piano. Thanks for that.



Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    16:06 on Sunday, October 14, 2007          

FirstChairForeve
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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.


Re: Tonguing in Flight of the Bumblebee??    03:43 on Monday, November 26, 2007          
   




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