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Author: Wyatt
Date: 1999-03-15 03:39
Having been gifted on my 56th Christmas with a clarinet(I'd been mumbling about renting one to see if I could learn to play it well enough to accompany vocal church music), I proceeded to take private lessons. My instructor is a grad student working on his MA in musical performance. His main interest is jazz Sax.
When I mention a technical topic, such as I pick up on this very fine PHORUM, I receive a gaze closely resembling a deer in the right lane of the road staring at an oncoming car. He may be a good sax player, but a theorist, he ain't.
I'm the sort of person who would be working on a BSME, if I were going to college. I'm looking for some conceptual information about the clarinet that might be available to my daughter the college student at her school's library. Any Suggestions?
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-03-15 03:52
It might be helpful if you were a bit more specific. Particularly, I am confused whether you mean clarinet acoustics or music theory.
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Author: Wyatt
Date: 1999-03-15 15:40
Clarinet acoustics, by all means! I can find music theory on most any street corner.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-03-15 18:51
Hi Wyatt- Since I'm a BSChE [an ME who knows a bit of chemistry] maybe I can steer you toward the complicated acoustics! Prob. the best authority who also has an interest in music is Arthur H. Benade, whose "Horns, Strings and Harmony" [available via Amazon.com if not in your library] would be a good place to start. Grove's "New Dict. of Music" will also be worth looking into, if only for references. Both Brymer and Lawson {titled "Clarinet" in each} will be helpful. Happy library research!! Don
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Author: Katherine Pincock
Date: 1999-03-15 20:10
There are two books you might want to look into: one called Acoustical Aspects of Woodwind Instruments by C. J. Nederveen, and another called Clarinet Acoustics (I don't know the author of that one). Both are excellent and fairly easy to understand, since they are careful to define terms they are using.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 1999-03-15 22:15
Clarinet Acoustics is by Lee Gibson. A second edition came out recently. That and Benade will tell you more than any reasonable person would want to know.
A fascinating and very well written book on clarinet and wind instrument history, with a secondary emphasis on theory, is Baines, History of Woodwind Instruments, which is available in a good quality paperback edition through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. It should be on every woodwind player's bookshelf.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-03-16 01:47
There seems following theory books:
I recommend Keith Stein book.If the library has a ICS catalogue of clarinet books,theory books will be found in more detail.
Art of Clarinet Playing:Frederick Thurston(Oxford Press)
The Cambridge Clarinet Tutor :Paul Harris
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Clarinet Acoustics:O. Lee Gibson
The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing:David Pino, David Pina
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto; The Clarinetist's View
David Etheridge
New Directions for Clarinet (New Instrumentation, Vol 4)
Phillip Rehfeldt
Art of Clarinet Playing Item:Keith Stein
Catalog of the International Clarinet Society Score
International Clarinet Society Res Ctr
p.s.Congratulations for you to have a clarinet!
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-03-16 18:53
There are several articles in the Journal of American Acoustical Society that would also attract your attention. Just go into the school library and check the index issues under woodwinds, clarinets, and so forth.
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