Klarinet Archive - Posting 001253.txt from 1998/10

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] What scale exercises and why?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:25:10 -0500

>David B. Niethamer wrote:
>
>>I can't lay my hands on it at the moment, but a long time ago Selmer
>>published a pamphlet by Mazzeo about scale practice. It included
(BIG SNIP)
>
On 10/28/98 9:45 AM, Don Yungkurth wrote:

>Mazzeo's book has as chapter 16, pp. 87 - 103, "A Guide to Scale Studies".
>He lists the following and discusses them:
>
>1. Klose - Method
>2. Jeanjean -'Vade-Mecum' du Clarinettiste
>3. Hamelin - Gammes et Exercises
>4. Gay - Methode
>5. Gillet - Exercises sur les Gammes, les Intervalles et le Stacatto
>6. Stieverand - Practical Study of the Scales
>7. Slonimsky - Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
>
>David can probably tell from this description if it is the same as the
>Selmer pamphlet.

I found my Mazzeo, and it is indeed as Don reports. Get the book, and
read the chapter. It's interesting - and it was a revelation to me when I
first read it many years ago. I learned a lot from Mazzeo, and I never
met him or studied with him.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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