Britten, Benjamin. Albert Herring, Introduction to Act 2. Reid, John W. The Double Reed 4/3 (December 1981): 2. The fingerings are in order of appearance in the music. The numbers refer to the musical examples below.

1. B3-D4: Regular

2. G3-Bb3:

       / x x | x x x    x x x | x o x
          w?

3. F3-Ab3:

       o o o | o o o    o o o | o o o
         wlock          c a wlock

4. Eb3-Gb3:

          eb-tr          
         x o x | o o o   
            w

5. D3-F3: Regular

6. Bb2-Db3:

        x x tr | x x o
           w    Bb E

7. D4-F4:

       tr tr o | o o o
                Bb

8. C4-E4:

       x tr tr | o o o
                Bb

9. Bb3-D4:

       x x tr | tr tr o
               Bb

10. E4-G4. Same as E4-G4 shake in Cooper p. 205 (no Eb key):

      eb-tr
      x o o | o o o

11. D4-F4. See 7, prior D4-F4.

12. C4-Eb4. Same as C4-Eb4 shake in Cooper p. 162 (no Eb key):

      x tr x | o o o

13. Eb4-G4. Same as Eb4-G4 shake in Cooper p. 256 (no Eb key).

       eb-tr
      x o x | o o o

14. D4-F4. See 7.

15. C4-Eb4. See 12.

16. F2-Ab2. Same as Cooper p. 22.

      x x x | x x x F
                 F#-tr Ab-tr 

17. F3-Ab3. See 3.

18. D4-F#4:

      x x o | o o o         o o o | o x o

19. C4-F4:

 
      x x x | o o o         o o o | o o o
             Bb                    Bb

20. Eb4-Gb4:

      x x o | o x x         o o o | o x o

21. Eb4-F4:

      x x o | o x x         x o o | o x o

22. D4-Gb4. See 18.

23. Bb3-Db4:

      x x x | x x o       x x o | x o o
             Bb                  Bb

Britten, Benjamin. Albert Herring. Tyree, Ronald. In Apfelstadt, Marc and Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice, Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1993, pp. 75-77. Contains a chart of tremolos:

C4-Eb4:

      x tr x | x o o
         c#

C4-F4:

      x x x | o o o      x o o | x x o

D4-F4:

      tr tr o | o o o
               Bb

D4-F#4:

      tr tr o | o o x F
      Bb (B C)        Ab

Eb4-Gb4:

            Eb
      tr tr o | o x tr

Eb4-G4:

      tr tr o | x x x F
        c#-tr  Bb

E4-G4:

      tr tr o | o o o
               Bb

E#4-G#4:

          Eb
      x o x | x x x
        c#-tr

F4-A4 (down trill):

      x  tr  x  | x  x  tr  Ab-tr
      a-tr c#-tr

C5-D5:

            Eb
      tr tr x | tr tr x Ab
        b         E-tr

C5-D5:

            Eb
      tr tr x | tr tr x Ab
        b      Bb-tr


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