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Author: Bill
Date: 2005-11-15 21:34
If you can get a copy, I recommend "50 Classical Studies," edited by Pamela Weston. The one-sentence suggestions at the start of etude are the closest thing to a masterclass some of us will ever get.
Well worth playing through this book!!!
Bill.
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2005-11-16 07:21
Yes, I found this book a great help when I was taking up the clarinet again after a break of a few years. It really works those technical skills - difficult tonguings, deliberately frustrating fingerings, pieces placed annoyingly across the break etc. It starts easy and becomes progressively 'interesting'...
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-11-16 15:14
How does this compare to the Fritz Kroepsch 461 progressive and daily studies? I think the Kroepsch is cruel!
Bob Phillips
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Author: Bill
Date: 2005-11-16 15:35
The Weston is based on classical melodies - extracts, adaptaions, whatever. The Kroepsch, as far as I understand, is his material/writing.
The Kroepsch is the only what I would call "scale book" I ever liked.
Bill.
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Author: donald
Date: 2005-11-16 17:26
when i first studied/taught in the US in 1994 i found that this book was unknown in the USA, but a number of the studies were known from their original publication (ie from collections by Klose/Demnitz/Lefevre etc).
i never found the little written bits very helpful actually, STUDENTS almost never read them, and they never really supported my agenda (developing/approaching articulation through legato.... legato tonguing... THEN detached styles.... in order to have an articulation that's well supported)
that being said, i use studies from this book every week- at least 6 of them are in the "must learn" category, and there is material there for students of a variety of levels making it a very useful resource.
donald
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Author: CJB
Date: 2005-11-17 18:44
Ah 50 Classical Studies........my copy is in about 50 pieces vaguely held together with sellotape of dubious age and limited adhesive properties.
At least when I was learning (in the UK) it was about the only study book everyone I knew used. It had studies on the syllabus of the grade 3 exam right through to the grade 8 exam. Judging by the current ABRSM syllabus it isn't as popular any more.
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