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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-07-10 21:53
Marcel Mule, who died not that long ago at the age of around a hundred, was one of the most eminent Classical saxophonists in history. He wrote 18 studies for alto saxophone that work very well on the clarinet and provide really good technical practice and are amusing to play. If I can find a publisher, I would like to adapt them to the clarinet by extending their range. In the meantime, try out the original version for saxophone. You'll find these études really useful.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2023-07-11 02:55
I thought a bunch of them were already co-opted by Cyril Rose.
.....................Paul Aviles
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-07-11 08:41
Cyrille Rose died in 1902. Marcel Mule was born in 1901.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2023-07-11 13:28
Thanks Ruben!
At one point in my checkered past a colleague shared a Mule exercise book with me. I don't recall if I heard him practicing this or if he loaned me the book, but my recollection of the experience was that several (if not A LOT) of the exercises were from some of the Rose opus.
So we know who copied whom.
No copyright ramifications back then, or for "studies?"
................Paul Aviles
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Author: donald
Date: 2023-07-11 17:57
I've got an odd memory of there being Saxophone studies that are the Klose exercises from book one - that start of "cdcdcdcd cbcbcbcb cccccc" etc. These are transposed so that the c correlates to G on the saxophone (so they all start in the middle of the instrument)
These are just a series of short exercises (quite effective in fact, I often use them with students) not longer studies/etudes
If I had a book handy I'd specify exactly what they're called, but the Klose is not nearby and for some reason I can't find the pdf on my laptop.
Maybe this is what Paul is thinking of?
[Oh found it- Klose "68 exercises of mechanism"]
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-07-12 08:49
Paul and others: I've cleared up the mystery! Actually, in a series of études, Mule uses the Ferling pieces for oboe that Rose also used in his 32 Etudes. Mule's 18 études don't seem to have used them, but he might have used Klosé or somebody else.
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Post Edited (2023-07-12 08:58)
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Author: donald
Date: 2023-07-13 02:38
Taking the time to look at the original Ferling Oboe studies, and seeing how they were adapted for clarinet, is quite an interesting task. Sometimes the term "arranged" just means re edited, or transposed into a new key. HERE they mean significantly re-written, and done in a way that really addresses "clarinet problems".
Rose certainly knew what he was doing, that's for sure!
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Author: ruben
Date: 2023-07-13 09:14
Donald: I think they are musically more interesting than the original Ferling. It's a pity we will never know what Cyrille Rose sounded like.
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