Klarinet Archive - Posting 000632.txt from 2004/01

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sti=E9venard?=
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:41:08 -0500

David Niethamer wrote:

<<
Lastly - sorry, this has gotten rather long - I have to ask - What do
those of you who use it see in Stievenard? I find it distractingly
confusing with all the patterns, some of which are quite challenging.
>>

David

To me Stiévenard has been very important in developing finger dexterity. I
bought the book some 25 years ago, when I played clarinet less than ten
years, and of course hardly was able to come to the "richer ornamented"
scales, certainly not when they were minor. Through the years however I took
the book up again and again, the last time six years ago, and finally was
able to play it through completely and in a satisfying manner.

Next week I will finish the "12 studies" by Bon and "Abîme des oiseaux" by
Messiaen for lesson (I started to take lessons again two and a half years
ago), and when I rode my bicycle home (boy, was it raining ... ) I was
thinking about what is going to be my next "program", and indeed as to the
scales I was thinking of Stiévenard, exactly because of the richness of
patterns it has. A richness that for example Baermann lacks, I think his
part III is rather boring. But maybe it will be Bach, or Jeanjean, or even
Jan van Beekum's "Virtuosa", that has both scales and what comes with it, an
melodic studies.

As to the follow-up for Messiaen I did not yet decide. Maybe it is something
as simple (technically) as Molter or Stamitz, maybe it will be Crusell,
Spohr or Weber. My clarinet library is about one meter long, so there is
enough to choose from.

Rien

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