Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 1998/08

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Audition Scales
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:35:22 -0400

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Neil Leupold wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, David C. Blumberg wrote:
>
> > How about playing the Scales page from the Klose book. That covers the keys
> > major, and minor for your tape.
>
> The range is too limited in the Klose'. While the exercise is good
> for demonstrating an ability to play all of the major and relative
> melodic minor scales, it does not show the ability to play them
> cleanly and evenly throughout the range of the instrument (lower
> chalumeau through altissimo). The panel will be interested in
> this. It would be best to contact the school and be informed
> regarding which particular scales the prospective teacher(s)
> are interested in hearing -- then record them as played from
> the Baermann.

For those of us who have been auditioning students for a decade or longer,
I can say with quite a bit of assurance that the Klose scales will be
perfectly acceptable for an audition into college. If you can play the
Baermann studies and range, by all means do what you feel comfortable
doing. But the primary objective of the audition committee is not to see
if your range is great but to see if you have good, controlled technical
abilities as well as a strong knowledge and ability to play in a wide
range of keys.

David Blumberg's advice is excellent.

Roger Garrett
Illinois Wesleyan University

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