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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2005-05-17 19:27
Over this summer, I will be working at a camp, and am bringing my clarinet along so I can practice. However, I need some good peices to work on. My skill level is around the level of Weber's Concertino. Any help and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
Steve
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Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-05-17 21:30
Now try Weber's Theme and Variations for clarinet. And maybe Scene and Air by....uh..someone You could begin working on the Mozart Concerto (you know, K622). I say 'begin' because no one every really finishes their work on that piece. The better you get at playing clarinet, the more difficult Mozart becomes. It's quite a phenomenon. That's all I can think of now...good luck!
-Tyler
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2005-05-17 22:16
I think you would enjoy the finzi concerto. Has sort of a summery pastoral sound to it, and isn't amongst the most difficult works for clarinet. I enjoyed learning this work when i was a high school student, and unfortunately, i never got a chance to perform that concerto.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-05-17 22:18
Play for fun, but give a little time to improvement, too. Get a book of old favorites (say, a Gershwin songbook) and some great recordings (say, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook).
Put on the CD and listen to just the first phrase of her singing - one bar, or at most two. Then stop the player and match exactly what she sang. This will let you explore the clarinet's great ability to "speak" the various vocal colors, and the vowel sounds of the lyrics. Make it really obvious, as if you were doing a demonstration of what's possible to someone across the room.
Also take along the Ella/Louis Armstrong CDs and listen to how beautifully they match their phrases. One of the many reasons Armstrong was so great is that he listened hard and practically played the words back to her through his trumpet, and Ella also sings trumpet sounds to him. Again, practice doing the same thing.
Go back to the songbook, taking easy melodies -- preferably ones you already know -- and practice reading them up and down a half step, up and down a step, and so on. This is just as important as learning new music and will give you tremendous confidence in being able to play anything by ear, at any pitch.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-05-17 22:18
Steve- We are about in the same place! Scene and Air (by Bergsen) is past you, you are probably too good for this piece to merit any hard practice from you. It would be a blow off piece for you if you are looking for something demanding in a highly musical and technical fashion. Here's what I am working on this summer. Weber Concerto no. 1, Saint Saens Sonata movement 4, Crusell Concerto no. 2 in F minor, all the 16 Bonade Solo De Grands, Baermann III (which I am working on right now, but will still be working through this technical bad boy for awhile), the Rose Etudes (working on this right now and will be continuing with it through summer), I want to buy Immer Kleiner so I can perform it at the talent show next year, and I'll also be working through some awesome music I see at the OU symposium! I also want to work up all of the Solo de Concours from the Paris Conservatory. So far I got 1 down, 15 to go! That will take awhile though. Good luck with your practicing this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2005-05-19 23:03
Ok, I decided to buy Mozart K622, and Weber Concerto no.2 in Eb op.72. Thanks for all the advice.
Steve
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"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2005-05-20 05:26
I'd say the 2nd concerto is considerably harder than the concertino.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-05-20 05:58
If you have the time and access to a decent sheet music store, browse and find something that you've never heard of. Play some of it in your head so you know about how difficult it is.
I say this as a listener who's heard enough Weber in the past year to last a lifetime. There are about 20 pieces that get 95% of clarinet playtime. Explore!
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2005-05-20 17:59
Yeah, if you're at a "Weber Concertino" level, I would definitely not suggest the Weber no. 2. Maybe the second movement, but that piece as a whole is significantly harder than the concertino. And I agree with EEBaum, go out to a music store and find some piece(s) that you have never heard of and go at it. A few pieces like this:
Warren Barker: Concertino for Clarinet
Alan Blank: Diversions for Solo Clarinet
E.D. Boccalari: Fantasia di Concerto
John Boda: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Allan Davis: Festival Concerto
Vaclav Nelhybel: Concerto for Clarinet (a piece that is not very well
known but should be because it's so fantastic)
Kalmus Opperman: Un Seul
Miklos Rozsa: Sonata (not to be confused with the Sonatina)
Ronald Shroyer: It's Either a Song or a Dance
Roy Heaton Smith: Concerto
Maciej Zeilinski: Capriccio
Walter Ross: Clarinet Concerto
Erwin Harder: Concerto No. 1
Good Luck.
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