Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 1998/03

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Band Method Books
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:42:15 -0500

>On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, GombKonen wrote:
>
>> I am writing a paper for graduate school on the development of beginning
>> band method books. The paper is about how method books have changed,
>> and stayed the same from Rubank to Accent on Achievement. I'm also
>> including Breeze Easy, First Division, the Weber-Lowry Clarinet Student,
>> Best in Class, and Essential Elements. I'm looking for suggestions from
>> people who have used different method books, what you liked about them,
>> and what you don't like. Also, if anyone knows of any method book
>> trivia, such as, when the first book was published that could with
>> different instruments in the same class, or anything else that might be
>> interesting to include in the paper, I'd appreciate the input.

I meant to respond privately to this message, but I procrastinated and now I
seem to have lost the original (I snipped the quotation above from Ed Lacy's
reply) and with it GombKonen's email address. Three that are often used and
that you've not mentioned are Ed Sueta (older but still used) published by
Macie in 1974, Yamaha Band Student (one of several series by Feldstein and
O'Reilly published by Alfred-1989), and Standard of Excellence by Bruce
Pearson, published by Kjos in 1993. They each have their strengths. If you
send me your email address privately, I'll go into more detail about each.

Karl Krelove
kkrelove@-----.com