Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2008-09-11 07:45
GBK, Walter, et al.,
From your descriptions, it sounds as if these books are very valuable, and I intend to order them. However, does anyone have recommendations for books for intermediate students to supplement these?
Although I can't claim great knowledge of what's out there for beginner and intermediate instruction, the "contemporary" method books that I've seen have "studies" that are so short that there's no chance for these students to develop any real endurance or sense of a composition as a set of developing phrases that "go somewhere."
Criminey, some of the books I've seen that are marketed as "intermediate" methods have no exercises or excerpts longer than 64 bars, and very few have contrasting sections within each "study." Consequently, I still stick to the Rubank books and supplement them, even as soon as the second year, with stuff from Lazarus, Rose, and Langenus just so my students have a chance to develop endurance, good breathing habits, and a sense of melodic line more sophisticated than "Twinkle Twinkle."
Or am I missing something in modern clarinet pedagogy?
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