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Author: Tim T
Date: 2000-07-24 17:48
I have several pieces that I play just because I really just enjoy hearing, and playing them. Some are simple, some difficult, but the are all just Fun to Play.
So, the question goes out. What are some clarinet pieces that people on sneezy just have a good time playing? It doesn't have to be classical, jazz, etc.
Just FUN TO DO/PLAY on the clarinet!!!!
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-07-24 21:02
Fun to play for me is a mild doable challenge, and as I enter my second year of clarinet (as an experienced musician) with little time to practice I find...
I am currently enjoying Lazarus's Ten Studies #1,3 and 10. They are not too difficult for me (like Klose is at my level), but I can improve them and they sound like that sort of clarinet, at least in my imagination! I also am enjoying Fritz Kroepsch's 167 exercises, believe it or not.
I also enjoy playing clarinet (Rubank Advanced I and selected Duets) duets with my younger son and music from Ninetendo's Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy 8!!!??? huh???) series with both my children. Twice a month I play music from the Balkans with my husband a some friends. I enjoy it all, since I don't mind my mistakes any longer.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-07-24 22:15
If you're just looking for some fun tunes to play, try some of the books on the market that have a CD with it. this gives you a silicon band to play along with. They come in movie, TV, pop, Disney themes. Also jazz and clasical. Some are well done and are fun to use. I recomend CDs over casettes as most casette players vary in speed, and are a bear to tune with.
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Author: Sara
Date: 2000-07-25 03:53
I find the most of the sheet music that my teacher picks out pretty fun, I mean I like fast stuff like the first and third movemnets from the Mozart Concerto and I like some of the duets and solos in the two Rubank Advanced book. But I haven't really been exposed to a lot a different clarinet pieces so i guess i don't really know what all is out their. I heard some goo stuff about something called four seasons and something called Fantasy Piece or something along those lines, but i don't know much about them and their level of dificulty, so I don't know if I want to try them out or not. I think my teacher whom this is my third year with, is still trying to expose me to the clarinet classics that everyboby plays, the Mozart concerto, the weber Concerto and Concertino, Stamitz Concerto 3 and stuff thats pretty standard while learning the clarinet. But to me playing prety much anything other than long tones if pretty fun!
Sara
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Author: ken
Date: 2000-07-25 04:01
"Benny's Gig" for Bb clarinet and Double Bass by Morton Gould is a hoot to play and suitable for most any musical setting (except a funeral). They also make great encore snippets too. <:-)
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Author: Pam
Date: 2000-07-25 11:43
My current fun piece is called "Deepwood" that was written for bass clarinet but can be played on either because it doesn't use the low e flat. It is a tone poem that when it is done right should sound like a forest waking up with all the little animals scurring around and then at the end, winding down again.
I'd love to play Clarinet Polka though! My husband's family is Polish and we live in Ohio. What more can I say?
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-07-25 13:00
Schubert's "An Die Musik" is really enjoyable to play alone, particularly on a basset horn. Schubert Lieder in general can be very satisfying to play, even without the piano accompaniment.
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Author: Bob the Composer
Date: 2000-07-25 14:28
A few examples:
1. On page 27 of the Rubank Intermediate Method book, there is a piece entitled Modulating Etude. I like this one a lot. The tune sounds very familiar. Does anyone know if it was a pre-existing tune?
2. Several selections from Rose's 40 studies for Clarinet. These can be quite satisfying once you get past the technical difficulty.
3. At the risk of being self-promoting; my first Clarinet Concerto; it's a pretty funny piece when it's not being serious and has a few good tunes. I think I might need to revise it though.
Bob
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2000-07-25 15:01
Tim T wrote:
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I have several pieces that I play just because I really just enjoy hearing, and playing them. Some are simple, some difficult, but the are all just Fun to Play.
So, the question goes out. What are some clarinet pieces that people on sneezy just have a good time playing? It doesn't have to be classical, jazz, etc.
Just FUN TO DO/PLAY on the clarinet!!!!
Tim -
For years, I warmed up to impress (intimidate) other people - as fast and loud as possible. Gradually, I've changed to playing the best, most beautiful music I know (and usually have known for most of my life), as warmly and openly as possible. I play to please myself and please others by speaking gently but persuasively.
I play mostly songs - Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Schubert, Schumann, Christmas carols, advertising jingles, folk songs, hymn tunes, Gregorian chants. I play the great orchestral solos - Tchaikovsky 5th, Tchaikovsky 6th, Brahms and Beethoven symphonies - and the great solo literature - Brahms sonatas, quintet and trio, Mozart concerto and quintet - and anything else with a good, simple tune that I know by heart.
Duke Ellington said, "If it sounds good, it IS good." Please yourself first.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-07-26 02:04
I like to play just about any song in a clarinet choir setting, but my I really liked my solo for a contest..."Aria and Scherzo".
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-07-27 03:52
Heinrich Baerman Adagio.
Weber Concertino
Schuman Fantasie Stucke
Rose 32 etudes
Williams English Folk songs
Gustave Langenus Chlysaris(spell?)
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-07-27 17:30
I bought a book of Scott Joplin ragtime tunes arranged for clarinet and piano. Those are lots of fun! I also love working on the Brahms sonatas and the Mozart concerto. I've gone back to those again and again. Working on any great music satisfies me, even though I don't expect I'll ever play those pieces well enough to be satisfied with my *results*!
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-07-28 01:10
Guy Dangain's "Initiation to Mozart" is currently top of my list. It comes in three volumes for beginning, reasonably experienced and advanced players. I'm on the middle of the three and having a great time.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-07-28 20:26
I've had a couple of e-mails asking about the Joplin book. It's "Scott Joplin Ragtime Classics for Bb Clarinet and Piano," arranged by Marcel G. Frank. The copyright date is 1974, but I bought the book new in a music store fairly recently and I think it's now in print, since this copy doesn't look like it's been lying around a long time. The collection includes these rags:
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin's New Rag
The Easy Winners
Pleasant Moments
The Cascades
I also play off tenor sax scores and the melody line of the complete rags for piano, for some variety, but this collection is a good one, IMHO. BTW, both the piano part and the clarinet part are playable by intermediate level students.
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Author: Stephanie
Date: 2000-07-29 02:39
There's this duet in Rubank Advanced Vol. 1, number 11 I think. I love playing it, even tho it's extrememly easy compared to what ya'll say. But the subject was what you think is fun to play, and I think it is!
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Author: Leah
Date: 2000-07-30 14:16
i really like the clarinet polka as some of your mentioned! it is kinda corny if you ask me but it is so much fun!i also think the rose 32 etudes are beautiful and just really fun to play......there are a lot of fun things in them. those are my two bits!
Leah
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