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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-12-28 21:49
I started this study method as a student on its Third Division.
Mind you, I'm no virtuoso. I simply worked up to the level of play needed to take on this book's exercises through work using more beginner editions of other study methods. As I changed teachers, their preferred study guides for my use weren't always the same, and a later teacher liked "Baermann."
Fast forward to today, a 1000 years later, as I help a H.S. student with this book. Confronted with her question, "what does this mean," as she referred to some notation in the music, below the staff, that appears to be:
1) an asterisk character, followed by
2) one or more underscore characters, ending with
3) a small triangle with a dot in its center
I had no experience with the early "Divisions" (i.e. more beginner books) of Baermann where this might have been explained.
It seems to appear in places where phrases incorporate the chalameau and clarion registers, but it's not nearly in every place where such register changes occur.
I reasoned with the student that it might be a reminder that one switches registers in a phrase, but admitted I didn't know for sure. We both looked at each other as if to say, "at this level of study, switching registers is such a big thing?"
So, any Baermann students/teachers care to clarrify?
(I encourage students to post here from the school's computers. Underserved area that it's in, not too many of the kids have home or portable 3G technology at their disposal.)
Thanks.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-12-28 22:05
It's an indication/suggestion to keep the right hand down (or certain fingers of the right down) from the asterisk until the triangle with the dot. If there is a number indicated, it refers to a key on the fingering chart.
...GBK
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Author: maxopf
Date: 2014-12-28 23:18
In addition to what's already been said, I believe the asterisk denotes which note's fingering should be held down in the right hand. If the asterisk were under a clarion E, you would keep the 1st and 2nd RH fingers down; if it were under a clarion C#, you would keep the 1st, 2nd, 3rd RH fingers and the C# key down, etc.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-12-28 23:40
Thanks.
...things the student, like me when I first worked with it, was already pretty much doing, or didn't need advice when to do, when first entering this teacher series at level 3, having worked with other player's more basic study guides first, to get to this point of proficiency.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-12-29 03:09
I've run into several of those marks that refer to Oehler fingerings, so take them with a grain of salt.
............Paul Aviles
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