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Author: Louise
Date: 2007-10-15 04:25
Does a book on clarinet pedagogy exist with the level of the clarinetist listed? Eble Music has a great book for Wind Players that own from well over 30 years ago, but I want one for clarinet. Thanks! I had my Buffet clarinet overhauled and now realize I need a much better clarinet. Is the Buffet R13 the route most advanced clarinet players choose?
Thanks again! L.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-10-15 20:36
Hi Louise - Your word, pedagogy, may have made more BB'ers than I to pause and look up its meaning. Are you looking for a book to teach cl, or to teach teachers how to teach cl students? All redundancy aside, many of our "good books" [with clarinet in the title] such as by Brymer, Lawson, Pino. et many al should suffice, IMHO. Luck, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: am0032
Date: 2007-10-16 00:36
Tom Ridenour's "Educator's Guide to the Clarinet" is a great book with pedagogy being its primary purpose. It is a great resource and I highly recommend it.
Adam
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Author: InTheBassment
Date: 2007-10-17 00:13
What level are you at? I suggest Rubanks Methods (beginning, intermedieate, and advanced depending where you are). I've had good experience with J.A. Alberts scales and Kell Staccato Studies... there used to be a great book by Stubbins, but it's no longer in print. Don't forget to do your longotnes... i'm not sure about books for that... i use stubbins
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-10-17 00:39
There is a difference between technique books and pedagogical books.
The Ridenour book is a pedagogical book. It is primarily concerned with the fundamentals of clarinet, its' playing, and how to teach these fundamentals.
The Rubank books are less pedagogical, they are books that teach and develop technique but dont teach how to teach the material nor how to learn the material. There is very little explanation of any of the concepts, and they are most effective in conjunction with the aid of an experienced teacher. (yes, I know...aren't they all?)
The Stubbin's text (The Essentials of Technical Dexterity for the Clarinet) has some suggestions and many exercises, but as far as explaining how to do or teach how things are to be done it is not much more than the Rubank.
As far as the clarinet: The Buffet R13 is the most purchased professionl clarinet.
After having your Buffet overhauled, what is wrong with it?
All this being said, if you really wish to improve rapidly then engage the best teacher you can afford.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2007-10-17 01:47
Keith Stein's "The Art of Clarinet Playing' is still very good as a basic pedagogical text that has not been mentioned. Stubbins is still excellent as well. I never quite got my arms around Pino's Clarinet and Clarinet Playing. A pal told me though that Carm Capione's Campione on Clarinet is really good but I have not seen this book.
There is a great golf book by Gallwey called The Inner Game of Golf. Just as there is, IMHO, a Zen to golf, the same non-verbal approach might work in clarinet playing. Instead of Be the Ball, you could Be the Bb. I do find that when I think about what makes a passage challenging, once I know the :secret, I have a much better chance of playing correctly.
While I do not meditate or do any of those type activities, there may be something to integrating a mental approach in clarinet pedagogy.
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Author: James Langdell
Date: 2007-10-17 02:42
I think many of the Stubbins books were made available again a few years ago by Piansano Press. Is that publisher still in operation?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-10-17 03:10
James Langdell wrote:
>Is that publisher still in operation?
No, unfortunately the publisher (who lived not too far from me) passed away a few years back. The remaining inventory was shipped out somewhere in Ann Arbor and disappeared.
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