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Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-09-07 20:17
I was looking around on the internet for clarinet quartet videos to help a board member out. There wasn't much to find.
If you play in a small clarinet ensemble please post it on youtube! It would help to have the work, movement, arranger, and original orchestration and title identified (as well as the composer and their dates). It would be great help to a lot of appreciative students.
Thanks,
- Matthew Simington
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Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-09-07 23:37
Well, yes.
I suppose if you search for all the quartet videos you will find a lot. However, I had a list of about 20 approved pieces, and if I could find a video, it was usually a less than stellar performance, and had very bad audio and video quality. Most of them poorly identified the piece and composer, and did not identify the arranger. In some cases I could find versions for saxophone quartets, but not clarinet quartets. Many do not even clearly identify the group or players!
On the page above, the first group is incredible. Some of the others are very good. Seven of them were posted by one user (I think he's selling sheet music). I counted nine movie and popular tunes, which would not be on most "approved" lists for students. At least two are computer generated files.
We need more good videos!
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2016-09-07 23:41)
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2016-09-08 14:41
Matthew, respectfully, -- how are we to know, much less find and contribute, any of the pieces from the list when you haven't given it to us?
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-09-12 06:56
I didn't mean to criticize your good will effort. I only meant to illustrate that on a random page search of clarinet quartets, which happened to be yours, very few of them were of much use to students who were given a particular list.
The member I spoke of was here:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=444380&t=444380
My list is at the bottom as an attachment. It was extracted from the very large spreadsheet the OP linked to. I don't teach so I don't know what sorts of things are on those lists in various places around the country. I just figured that the more high quality stuff is on youtube, and the better labeled it is, the easier it will be for students to find.
Unfortunately the youtube search engine does not take artistic merit or audio quality into consideration when bringing up search results.
- Matthew Simington
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2016-09-12 15:30
Quote:
I was looking around on the internet for clarinet quartet videos to help a board member out. There wasn't much to find.
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I didn't mean to criticize your good will effort. I only meant to illustrate that on a random page search of clarinet quartets, which happened to be yours, very few of them were of much use to students who were given a particular list.
But my "goodwill effort" matched the criteria of your inexact request: "clarinet videos". Then your "illustration" of how the help doesn't meet your requirements included a backhanded insult.
Matthew -- You have a laudable goal. That's good. But you criticize attempts to help you and find fault when what's provided doesn't match what you were looking for...when you didn't specify anything other than "clarinet videos". You didn't provide a list of pieces*. You didn't state that you were looking for high-quality audio.
*You still haven't. You've provided a link for someone to go find your list. Not the same thing.
My last suggestion: Go to the YouTube videos that you think ARE high quality. View any other videos that the channel has posted. Go to the performing ensemble's websites (if they have one). Watch those videos. Compile a list, and post it here.
It will be well received and a benefit to you and others.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-09-12 22:25
I did not ask for help, and do not appreciate being treated with condescension. Your responses are not respectful.
If you don't like a simple suggestion like "post videos", just ignore it.
The Greek proverb is meant to be applied to oneself, not others.
- Matthew Simington
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