Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2005/05

From: deeflint01@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Rubank and Trills (for Paul Harris)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 17:14:24 -0400

Keep in mind that the Rubank Intermediate Book is intended to follow the Rubank Beginner book. The latter volume is intended for two years of study and does a very thorough job of drilling dotted eighth notes. It also takes the student to the G that is 4 ledger lines above the staff. Thus the Intermediate book really is only starting off with a brief review before tackling the trills and ornaments.

If the student has not completed the equivalent of the Rubank Beginner book, they are not ready for and should not go into the Rubank Intermediate book.

Dee D. Flint

> Paul,
> Are you the same Paul Harris who has written excellent pieces and studies
> for beginning clarinet, or another Paul Harris?
>
> Yes, I knew someone was going to call me on the issue of ornamentation.
> Paul, I have a degree in performance practice --of course I believe in
> teaching ornamentation. But, to me it's a question of balance and timing.
> Ornamentation can be easily introduced any time a student is working on a
> piece that warrants it as early as a student is ready (like the
> appoggiaturas that crop up in some of Eric Simon's song arrangments, for
> example.) It's particularly appropriate as a topic for discussion when a
> student is playing music from the time periods in which ornamentation was
> expected as part of the musician's art. Whether or not it warrants three or
> four whole pages of exercises when a student is just starting to play
> melodic etudes--let's say, grade 2--is what I'm referring to.
>
> In Rubank Intermediate, five pages before discussing grace notes and trills
> at length, the student is introduced, seemingly for the first time, to the
> dotted eighth note.
>
> This is definitely a leap of faith, even for 1936.
>
> Cheers,
> Margaret
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~clarinetstudio/
>
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