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Author: cigleris
Date: 2007-04-20 14:56
Well i recently came across the Vede-Mecum by JeanJean and have found that it has added a new depth to my technique. It made me look at certain aspects and now it comes everywhere with me as warm up studies.
I wondered if anyone else had a book they couldn't live without.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2007-04-20 14:59
"I wondered if anyone else had a book they couldn't live without."
Yes, The Holy Bib le.
Bob A
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-20 14:59
It may be a thin bible, but there's a lot packed in there!
My clarinet teacher swore by 'Vade-Mecum'.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Mags1957
Date: 2007-04-20 15:01
I have 2:
The Vade-Mecum and Baermann 3 (I like the Snavely edition). Anywhere my clarinet is, those two books are.
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2007-04-20 15:15
Tone, Technique, and Staccato - A. Galper
i got it my first semester in college and i keep returning to it.
JK
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-04-20 16:17
Not for the clarinet, but for the oboe:
Prestini - Raccolta di Studi
Well, designed, tasteful, imaginative studies in all the common keys and their minors.
Susan
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Author: rcnelson
Date: 2007-04-20 16:34
Bob A has the "important in life" answer...but as far as clarinet is concerned, I have an old copy of the JB Albert 24 Varied Scales and Exercises that I have yet to take time to work thru all of it but it sure helps with technique.
Ron
Selmer Mark VI tenor (1957), Selmer Mark VII alto (1975)
Buescher True Tone soprano (1924), Selmer CL210 Bb Clarinet, Gemeinhardt 3SHB Flute, Pearl PFP105 Piccolo
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-04-20 17:04
I haven't looked too into it (just been concentrating on other stuff) but I have a feeling that I'm going to be spending LOTS of time with the Klose book. Part two (pages 123 one
I play page 123 (from memory, albeit slowly) and the scales in thirds and then the dimished scales exercises every day. And I'm going to start looking through the book at its other exercises and play through it in the upcoming months.
Alexi
PS - I also have a copy of baermann III, but haven't sloshed through it yet. I have the edition by David Hite, but personally I'd rather have the other edition. Where it's NOT situated by key. Simply because if I have a limited amount of time, I can flip to a certain exercise and do that exercise in EVERY key exercising each key instead of doing all sorts of exercises for one key and not having time to hit the other ones.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: energia eolica
Date: 2007-04-20 20:19
Baermann III, but if I'm being really honest, I'd combine it with Klose and some others to create a true comprehensive "bible."
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-04-20 20:35
Rose 32 and Baermann III
Not a day goes by that I don't play out of both of them. Both are permanent fixtures on my music stand.
As Bonade once said (and I'm paraphrasing) , the Rose 32 and Rose 40 books contained 90% of the preparation one would need to be an orchestral player.
...GBK
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Author: CEC
Date: 2007-04-20 20:48
energia,
Right you are!
Baermann, Klosé, Rose, Polatschek, Cavallini, Uhl, Lang, Stark, Kroepsch. That should about do it... I think
Post Edited (2007-04-20 20:49)
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-04-20 20:57
I'm with GBK - Baermann III and Rose Studies are permanent staples on my stand. If I play only one thing a day, its from Baermann.
Anyone interested in searching for the JeanJean, the correct spelling is Vade-Mecum.
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2007-04-20 22:34
The Peter Hadcock "The Working Clarinetist". I do at least Daphnis, Beethoven 6 and Brahms 4 EVERY day.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2007-04-20 23:03
I also carry with me the Ricordi book of Bach Partitas arranged from the Violin and Cello ones, also Kell staccato Studies. I've found the Koeprasch (sp) very interesting.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: dgclarinet
Date: 2007-04-21 00:42
My Carl Fischer Baermann 3 hasn't had a cover in about 20 years, but I couldn't do without it.
Sure wish I had that cover though...I think I wrapped it in contact paper in college.
I also have the Hite version of the Baermann 3, but it's just not the same.
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Author: vin
Date: 2007-04-21 05:27
Dont are etudes for violinists (and clarinetists too, apparently).
Cant are etudes for violists,
and Wont are etudes for cellists.
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Author: kuteclar
Date: 2007-04-21 05:41
Baermann III - mine was my former teacher's and is now in 3 sections - front cover, back cover but the pages are well in tact!
Tone, Technique, and Staccato - just found this book. It's wonderful. It also has some Kroepsch and Klose Mechanisms.
All the Rose, and the Rode 20 Grand Studies. I should do more work with the original Ferling studies, too.
The other JeanJean (The Melodious and Progressive) books are good, but I don't think of them as staples.
The Langenus 3 would be good to throw in here, too.
Post Edited (2007-04-21 05:44)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-04-21 06:09
Book of clarient music? No. Regular book? Also no, but there are a few I would prefer not to live without. If someone's life depends on one book they couldn't live without, it sounds like a problem more than a good thing.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2007-04-21 11:48
clarnibass wrote:
> Book of clarient music? No. Regular book? Also no, but there
> are a few I would prefer not to live without. If someone's life
> depends on one book they couldn't live without, it sounds like
> a problem more than a good thing.
I think it's not a problem if there is a book that you always carry with you. For me to have the JeanJean or any other book is useful when you are wasting time waiting for students say or turn up to a rehearsal early, you can use them to get warmed up. Trumpet and other brass players do the same thing. The JeanJean vade-mecum is for losening fingers in a very short space of time. Useful before a audition or competition for example.
It's not a question of 'if someones life depends on it', a book to live without is a figure of speech.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-04-21 20:40
I lost mine sometime during a move. I first used it during my senior year in high school back in the '60's. My teacher from back then doesn't remember what it was, though he's the one who dubbed it my "bible" at the time. Other (inadequate) clues: It was French, printed on cheap oversized (folio?) (almost newsprint) paper. It had a very dark red (slightly heavier newsprint) cover with black lettering that was almost impossible to read (which is why I don't remember the name). The first page inside replicated the cover. My best guess is that the publisher was either Leduc or Durand. It contained relatively short (often less than a page in length) finger busting etudes that each progressed through several keys (with instructions that each etude should be practiced in all keys -- though it was all I could do to play them as written). I've never found anything like it -- and I've looked.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-04-22 06:55
JB ARBAN conservatoiry method for trumpet
Klose and Rose, Baermann and Polatscheck too.
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Author: Sarah Elbaz
Date: 2007-04-22 14:43
The first book in my Musical Bible is "The Book of Bach", the second is "The Book of Mozart", Beethoven, Weber, Brahms etc.
All the books together are my Bible. It would have been the same if I was a flutist, pianist or a singer.
Sarah
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Author: Max S-D
Date: 2007-04-22 23:18
Baermann III. Sometimes, I justt hate it. I've never played out of a book that did me so much good.
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