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Author: ylock
Date: 2015-08-03 13:03
Hi all,
I am writing a paper about learning clarinet and looking for some literature...
Anyone have books, best online, that I can look up?
I need answer to questions like:
What is the best age to start Clarinet, and why ?
More about the connection between the student and his clarinet..
etc. etc.
Thanks !
Yehiel
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-08-03 16:23
I do hope that there are some resources for you but I can't think of any on the nuts and bolts questions you ask. For instance the age one can start clarinet has more to do with size of fingers vs. size of holes (or even the comfortable span of the fingers). I have a student for example whose fingertips were barely big enough to cover the diameter of the tone holes at first - so that would be a limiting factor.
If I recall correctly, Henry Questa, a fine clarinet player with the Lawrence Welk band, featured his young son on a show of the cast's progeny. Questa got around the size thing by having his son play an Eb clarinet (more diminutive in size).
The literature most common is exercise manuals followed by the far rarer books on artistry and history (Keith Stein's "Art of Clarinet Playing" and Jack Brymer's "The Clarinet").
Perhaps you can find (though I don't know how to go about it) more esoteric literature in University and Conservatory libraries where students need to create them for masters and doctorate programs.
................Paul Aviles
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2015-08-03 20:46
Worldcat.org may help. Look at:
http://bit.ly/1Dl2foM
There are some titles there that may be on point. Look at their listings and then search (click on) their subject headings to find yet more material.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-08-05 04:20
Tom Ridenour. Educator's Guide to the Clarinet
Larry Guy. Embouchure Training for Clarinet
Larry Guy. Intonation Training for Clarinet
(and others by Larry Guy, including an edited Daniel Bonade collection)
Carmine Campione. Campione on the Clarinet (Original perspective)
Reiner Wehle (Sabine Meyer's husband). Clarinet Fundamentals 1, 2, and 3 (In German and English for both Boehm and Oehler clarinets).
David Etheridge. Clarinet for Dummies (This covers a lot of very basic info).
Leon Russianoff. Clarinet Method Books I and II (Out of print but available on loan from some libraries).
Robert Willaman. The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing (By a player from the Sousa Band era).
Some of these and other books on the clarinet are available at
http://www.vcisinc.com
Post Edited (2015-08-09 20:27)
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Author: Mike Blinn
Date: 2015-08-08 22:00
Is there a book specifically written for bass clarinet playing? My new Selmer 35 has more keys than my Yamaha, and I need all alterative fingerings possible.
Mike Blinn
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