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Re: Baerman, Klose, Langenus?

Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-01-22 07:58

I like to have a nice copy on the stand. When you download you have to print it out. If it's in thin sheets, they fly everywhere and get lost. If you want to bind it with good paper, that's a pain, it never prints right, and costs $$$. It's better to just buy it, IMO. To each his own though. I even find it hard to just look at online to get an idea of what it's like. I need to flip through it and play stuff.

I'll try looking at Langenus and Lazarus where you mentioned.

I just find that reading stuff online is sort of like taping the book inside a box with a little hole in it and a light inside. You look inside the hole and you can see the book, but my brain doesn't work that way.

Arban is a cool idea, but I was hoping for more of a clarinet tradition kind of thing.

If anyone has ever contemplated doing a write up summarizing or comparing Klose, Baerman, or Langenus, or any of the others, and especially the various editions available, it would be awesome.

Possible Questions:

Are the songs excerpts mostly classical composers, popular music, dances, etc?

Are they in a variety of styles, all romantic instrumental stuff, or opera?

Are the original songs for Bb or A clarinet (or other)?

Is there instruction about ornamentation, either in words or by example?

Is the author concerned with chops and mechanics, or melody and line?

Is it easy and progressive enough that you can work your way through, or is it way hard and you will spend the rest of your life working on it and never be satisfied? (I would really like to have something I can work through, play well, and feel accomplished with. If it takes a long time that's cool, just not 20 years!)

Does the edition have mistakes? Are they obvious?

Did the editor add a lot of dynamics and articulation, and is this helpful or distracting?

Is there any text? Is it helpful?

If it was written for antique or German clarinets, how does this affect it being played with a modern French instrument? Does it matter?

What is the most commonly used method? (Growing up as a saxophonist, I simply don't know what most clarinetists might know.)

Is it intended to make me the Heifetz or the Kreisler of the Clarinet? (I'd do better with the latter.)

Thank you!

- Matthew Simington

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