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Author: qp
Date: 2014-03-01 05:38
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any books that are similar to Peter Hadcock's 'The Working Clarinetist'? With excerpts and notes on the excerpts etc.
Cheers,
Richard
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Author: qp
Date: 2014-03-02 12:57
Cheers guys, I'll look them up. Any others come to mind?
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-03-02 14:52
Now's as good a time as any to jump back into the pool.
See in general http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=273996&t=272137.
Harold Wright marked up many scores with reminders and analysis. Several of these have been published as Collected Chamber Music for Clarinet (Harold Wright Legacy Series), available at http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinetmusiccollections.htm, item C091.
The Boston University library has a large collection of Wright-annotated scores http://www.bu.edu/library/music/research/specollm/wright/, undoubtedly in the same style as the published group. You would need to go to BU and look through the collection.
Wright students will have specific items.
You should also get and listen with great care to Wright's MMO recordings of, for example, Rose etudes and other solo material, http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=music+minus+one+clarinet+solos&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amusic+minus+one+clarinet+solos. Wright's pinpoint accuracy and finesse are the best annotations.
Steve Girko, a Drucker student, told me that his lessons consisted almost entirely of highly specific performance hints (the flutes usually go sharp on this interval, so you have to match; you're in unison with the violas for these two beats, so you must push to balance).
In other words, if you need basic instructions (use the top trill key for B4 in Midsummer Night's Dream; you and the piano do call and answer here, so it's like tossing a ball back and forth rather then just playing separate parts), you can get what you need from any decent teacher, or just by recording yourself and listening for where things get out of synch.
The Bloch and Wright annotations are either very basic things (breathe here) or are so advanced that they matter only to someone who's already a complete master (shade this note to produce a beatless chord).
Use annotations like a sober man uses a streetlight - for illumination, not support. Look at each one and ask yourself why it's there - how does it help the phrases fit together? Just looking, or even looking and doing, aren't enough.
Ken Shaw
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