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Author: Elkwoman46
Date: 2007-02-12 17:52
What was your favorite clarinet piece from your beginning days that you enjoyed so much that you still think fondly of it? For whatever reason, popularity, ease of playing, or ?
As for me, I had a wonderful sense of accomplishment when I first played the Beatles, Yesterday.
But as far as my first, just love it always, Ode to Joy, always stands out as a piece that appears usually in the first few pages in many beginning music books, and when I play it, love love love.
What easy song gives you delight, even today?
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Author: jemmz
Date: 2007-02-12 18:44
one of my favourite easier pieces is mexican hat dance!
I love that tune...:P
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-02-12 19:34
I'm ever the odd duck, I suppose, but one of my favorite "early" pieces was "Song to the Evening Star," from Wagner's opera, Tannhauser. It was, I believe, in a compilation entitled, "Let Us Have Music (for Clarinet)".
I also liked the Bach unaccompanied suites for cello -- don't know where I got ahold of that, but it was my first (and only) "technical" exercise book. I probably owe all of my subsequent success in musicianship to that little book! Sometimes having very little to work with makes you actually work with what you have.
Just did a little web-surf, and found this site http://www.web-helper.net/PDMusic/default.asp which has a lot of free public domain music, including the aforementioned Wagner -- but the scan available chopped of the right margin too far. Rats!
Susan
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Author: FDF
Date: 2007-02-12 23:07
My favorite beginning tune is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," a traditional folk song. I played this in Fifth grade, my first year of clarinet. There were only a handfull of students playing instruments, so we were tutored outside of the classroom. Our instructor selected a couple of us to perform for our class. I remember how nervous I was about performing before my classmates and our teacher, yet how proud I was of being selected to play. Performing in front of my class was my first moment of feeling I had something special to offer. Thank you, my teacher.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-02-13 00:18
How about Begin the Beguine, as near Artie's recording as possible? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-02-13 15:44
The only song that I particularly remember from the beginner's clarinet book that I had in the fourth grade, and which I enjoy to this day, is "Faith of Our Fathers". Eu
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