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Re: Practice Routine

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-10-21 10:39

Ah, the sociology of clarinet pedagogy! Who can say why certain books and exercises are assigned? Maybe it's just a question of which important clarinetists like a particular work or routine. Bonade liked the Rose etudes, so multitudes of students long after his death study them. Gino Cioffi was crazy about the Labanchi method and evidently Michelle Zukovsky finds great value in a few of the mechanical exercises towards the end of the Labanchi book as a warm-up routine.

Musically, the Labanchi method is interesting for its difficult and dramatic Bel Canto style etudes in all the keys. Learning to play these etudes, which lie much less idiomatically under the fingers than the Cavallini caprices, will give a player a considerable amount of transcendental technique and confidence in subdividing the beat.

Post Edited (2017-10-22 06:56)

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