Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-04-15 18:33
janlynn -
The Bach cello suites are great music, which you should know as part of your basic music education.
Most of the movements are in Hymie Voxman's Classical Studies for Clarinet, which also include movements from the violin solo sonatas and partitas. Gary van Cott has it for $8.95, item C163, http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinetmusiccollections.htm
It's an old Rubank edition, so there are typos, but it's still worth having. Bach was writing for strings, so there are lots of wide arpeggios, which are easy for the bow crossing from one string to the next, but difficult on clarinet. Still, it's great music and well worth the low price.
There is also a transcription of the cello suites for English horn, WW10, http://www.vcisinc.com/oboemusic.htm. The English horn goes down only to B, so the tessitura is quite high. Get the cello version instead, and practice reading bass clef (not to mention scordatura in alto clef for #6), or, better yet, get the manuscripts free on the WWW and work from those:
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs1ms.html
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs2ms.html
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs3ms.html
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs4ms.html
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs5ms.html
http://www.wimmercello.com/bachs6ms.html
Ken Shaw
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