Klarinet Archive - Posting 000877.txt from 1999/02

From: Jennifer Jones <JJONES@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] More on BAERMANN
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 06:11:44 -0500

Avrahm,

"An inviolable law for the beginner is 'to lip with deliberation and
repose'; practice, with time and patience, will enable him to find the proper
embouchure for a given tone, without his having to hunt for it through all
possible variations."

The phrase to me means that the beginner should choose a basic comfortable
embouchure, with a teacher's guidance of course, and use it consistently until
it is developed.
"'to lip with deliberation and repose'" particularly indicates that the student
should concentrate on this embouchure, duplicating it each practice session
until it comes automatically each time the instrument is played. Then the
embouchure can be adjusted for notes that do not speak as easily, thus
producing the individual embouchures for each note referred to
earlier in the section. The "practice with time and patience" is essentially
the process of becoming intimately acquainted with the instrument's intricacies
such that it can be controlled, for the most freedom of expression.

I hope that helps. If anyone has further insights, I'm interested too.

I love Baermann's prose, it is so old fashioned, and eloquent.

-Jennifer

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