Klarinet Archive - Posting 000852.txt from 1998/12

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beginning clarinet books
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 07:35:30 -0500

HatNYC62@-----.com schrieb:

> This topic has probably been covered before, but could someone tell me if
> there is a series of books for beginning and intermediate clarinet students
> which consists of MOSTLY duet material? And if so, are these books comparable
> pedagogically to the Rubank, Collis, etc?
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> There is KLARINÉTSKOLA / KLARINETTENSCHULE (in Hungarian and German) by Balassa
> György and Berkes Kálmán for the Boehm clarinet "Az állami zeneiskolák
> hivatalos tananyaga" (Don't ask me what that means!) published by Editio Musica
> Budapest 1968 in two volumes. Vol. I is *only* duets until page 70. Then about
> ten pages of trios, then some scales, chords, interval exercises at the back.
> Vol II runs on a similar scheme.

I used it for a while many years ago because I liked the *idea* so much. However,
I soon got tired of the musical contents. (If I got tired of it, what about the
pupils?)

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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