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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2008-01-04 05:31

Congrats on your new oboe! It was really a steal price. You'll make money off it if you decide to quit

On oboe methods definitely get a copy of Andraud's Practical and Progressive Oboe Method. I stumbled across it after purchasing every other oboe etude book (literally <g>) and it is simply the best beginning to intermediate to advanced all encompassing oboe etude book.

The Andraud starts with exercises geared toward the beginner, incorporates folk songs every now and then, progresses to easier etudes of Barret, Brod, and Verroust interspersed with more folk songs and classical works, progressing to scale and articulation studies, progressing to long tone exercises, progressing to ornaments and trills, progressing to intermediate etudes of Barret, Brod, Verroust interspersed with classical works and articulation exercises into more difficult exercises introducing other etude composers. The back of the book is filled with scale, arpeggio, and some well known chromatic pieces.

Andraud is also the author of Vade Mecum of the Oboist.

If you have Gekeler Book II already, this is Barret's 40 melodious etudes plus it's own section of scales and exercises. The Schuring Barret method cuts out the scale and scale exercises in the original Barret method.

Having both the original and Schuring edition of the Barret method and experiencing so many more methods. I recommend neither edition. Barret is obsolete and the Schuring edition is its death-knell*.

(*If the scales & exercises were re-added I'd probably say otherwise... and if the duets were put in treble clef, like in the Southern edition of Barret's 40, I'd buy another copy <g>)

Since you can already read music, you may want to avoid Rubank intermediate Method & Gekeler Book I.

However if you feel you need a method to teach you the fingerings for the notes as you go along check out the Edlefsen oboe level 1 book and you may be able to skip to intermediate stuff after that.

In addition to the Andraud and Gekeler II you may like the Nieman method, Gekeler First Book of Practical Studies, and the 80 graded studies II (I never had I).

If you get into advanced stuff you'll want Brod etudes and Ferling (there's 1st and 2nd oboe books for Ferling). If you want technical stuff you want Salvianni (get the sax version) and Sellner.

Melodious and Progressive for Oboe is actually a transposed Clarinet/Violin method, which might be fun to play around with, but not much skill building as the above. FYI - the sax version is the same as the oboe version, but costs less.

There are some sax methods that translate well:
The JL Small method is FUN.

The Salviani-Iasilli sax method versus the oboe one is the same, they share the same etudes except the oboe version is short changed etudes and costs more.

The L Bassi is a nice etude book, eerily appropriate for oboe.

(edit: missing words <ugh>)

♫ Stephen K.

Post Edited (2008-01-04 06:07)

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