Klarinet Archive - Posting 000711.txt from 1995/06

From: John Henninger <bunky@-----.COM>
Subj: Tackling My First Major Work...Help!!
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 20:57:36 -0400

After a lapse of a thousand years, give or take a few eons, I'm
starting work on the first major, extended piece since my undergrad
days; Brahms's Sonata in F minor (op. 120, no. 1). It sure isn't like
the one page pieces that I normally play in church. Anybody have any
hints on how one goes about "mastering" such a piece? Where and how
should I start? Find the seemingly easy parts and work from there?
Start at the beginning and muscle my way through it come hell or high
water? For backround on me, I normally play sax at the advanced
intermediate level and clarinet has been sort of a secondary
instrument. This Brahms is the largest piece, by far, that I've tackled
in 45 years of playing woodwinds. HELP. John