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Author: Bob A
Date: 2006-02-13 01:23
Started to feel better and got interested again. There was a new book for BC mentioned on the BC page and in ignorance I deleted the reference. The only thing I can remember was that it was expensive. That's important but not off-putting. Any bass players notice it? Dave? Anybody have a clue?
Thanks,
Bob A
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-02-13 02:09
Hi Bob - Glad things are looking better, stay interested. I have to "renew" myself ever so often, guess it just "goes with the torritary". Re: book, a few B C group EM posts back, a question arose about the Chi. Symp. cl'ists back in the '60-70's, maybe orig. by Larry Bocaner, not sure. But, since I have an old book [1978] re: the C S O [it's title], I looked in it and found a bit of info and relayed it to L B, who said he'd try to find it library-wise. Otherwise, the other recent discussion about books, is that [on our BB] about Hoeprich's [sp?] , not yet published. Hang in there, Regards, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-02-13 03:00
The Bass Clarinet (method) by Jean Marc Volta.
Published by International Music Diffusion (IMD 193) ...GBK
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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2006-02-13 03:35
It's selling for about $40 at a internet store. Has anyone got a copy? Care to share thoughts on its format, content, etc.?
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-02-13 07:10
The Volta book is a bass clarinet vade mecum with text, studies, orchestral exerpts etc. Certainly worthwhile for anyone serious about the bass clarinet. I can also recommend the "Bass Clarinet Scale Book' by Martin Arnold, a Canadian who plays in the Mexico City Philharmonic. It's sort of a Baermann III for bass clarinet, with all sorts of scale-based exercises--some of them diabolical-- utilising the low-C range, but also useful for the low Eb instrument. It is also a good primer for introducing the bass clef for players new to it, with studies duplicated in both clefs.
http://www.aztecpress.com.mx/
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2006-02-13 15:22
Gary Van Cott has it in stock. Ordered. $41.95 plus shipping. Thanks to all.
Bob A
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-02-18 12:43
I just got the Volta book, it is very well written and he did a wonderful job of explaining, "finding the sound". Well worth the price. I also got the Bass clarinet Scale book. This book I don't think it worth buying. I could have printed out the scales in Bass cleff, using sebelius. It's basically Albert scales in bass clef. That is something I can imagine. If you're going to read bass clef you have look at lots of music where you don't know what the next note is.
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-02-18 18:10
Chacun a son gout! I still feel the Scale Book has a whole lot more to offer than I could print out for myself in Sibelius! And the exercises utilising the low-C range are not duplicated anywhere else, to my knowledge.
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