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Author: sömeone
Date: 2004-02-07 14:38
The new season of teaching juniors is here again. Anyone mind giving me a summary of the important beginner playing points compulsary to the standard new studnet? ANY kind of advice is welcomed.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-02-07 19:12
Downbeats are all that matters. Once you reach one, get to the next one. Repeat until the piece finishes. Without downbeats, there is no time.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-02-07 19:22
Relaxation of every other part of the body except those parts necessary for proper support of the air, and of the instrument.
For example, why should the shoulders be tense when all you need is for the diaphram to be in good shape and supporting the air? Why should the jaw be hurting when the embouchure is what should really be strengthened? Why should the legs be tense when you don't play with your toes? And why should the fingers be sticking up in the air, all tense, when they should be loose and limber and ready to gently press the keys (not bang down on them)?
Maybe that's why some professional players make playing clarinet look like a piece of cake.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2004-02-08 14:34
Hi someone:
Here are some important thoughts for musicians and their students from Klose:
TASTE AND EXPRESSION IN MUSIC
Taste is the sentiment of the beautiful: this sentiment is natural, it is not acquired, it develops itself. It is taste that appreciates light and shade and is the guide to expression.
Expression is that faculty possessed by the artist of reproducing with energy, with soul, above all with truth, the ideas which are within him and the sentiments he feels. Without the necessary gradations of light and shade, music would be pale and uncolored; for melody requires expression as the earth requires light, as the body needs a soul.
It is taste which reveals the true artist: music contains within itself a crowd of volatile shadows, mysterious and out of sight, which are beyond all rules and which are beyond the rules and which in the common musician will let pass unperceived; but the man of fact, the artist of taste, will know where to find them. Much more, he will understand them. Thence he derives his animation, he becomes influenced by the ideas which ruled the composition of the piece, he appropriates those ideas, makes them his own and imparts them to his audience, who, like himself, pass by turns from grief to joy, from calm to repose to the tumult and impetuosity of the passions. The music is no longer an amusement, a recreation of the ear: it attains a role far more imposing. It becomes a language strong, energetic and potent, which impresses the heart, silences the multitude, and leads them to great and noble actions.
Such are the results produced by expression in music: results real and not imagined. But they are not ordinary men who obtain these effects. Great artists alone know the secret of them, and this secret empowers them in the force of their talent, in their genius; and their success is never doubtful, for if the multitude have not genius at least they comprehend it, and are obedient to the feelings which that genius imparts to them.
H. KLOSE
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-02-09 06:42
-There are endless divisions between one whole tone and the next, not just a halftone.
- Don´t believe anybody telling you how the clarinet is played if she/he isn´t formatted by the late 20ieth century music.
- Read Schoenberg´s "Harmonielehre", Cage´s writings, anything by Xenakis, Anthony Braxton, G. Crumb, Nono, Boulez (at all times), Rihm...any major figure of today. Don´t listen to the late Penderecki, stick to the early one.
- The music is not in the score. Never was.
- Incredible source: Rehfeldt´s "New Directions for Clarinet" and Farmer´s "Multiphonics" for clarinet. Put them under the pillow.
Best,
Markus
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-02-09 07:45
Teaching microtuning and multiphonics to juniors? Isn't that a recipe for disaster? 
On a strange, vaguely-related note, when I first saw a divisi (4th grade), I though I was supposed to play a multiphonic on flute. Then when I discovered that one player plays each note, I was much relieved.
In any case, the music not being in the score is incredibly good advice. Play the clarinet, not the page, you know.
Oh yes, and other advice: Don't bounce, and don't "wind up for the pitch."
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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