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Re: Baermann 3 error?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-07-09 22:53

I'm looking through my 1917 copy of the Third Division in the large section called Daily Studies but, alas, there are diatonic scales, scales in thirds, sixths, octaves and several sets of chord studies and no fourths, fifths or sevenths. It must be a different part of Division III from the Foundation Studies you're looking at. So I can't tell you whether the earlier edition had the same interrupted sequences or not. I don't own a newer Division III. Hite *might* have made an actual error once, but I don't think he would have repeated it, so I suspect it was Baermann's original text and that there's some reason relating to finishing within the desired range (like the 5th jumps in the Klose scales) or needing to make adjustments for meter when the exercise doesn't start at the tonic of the key or has more octaves than other keys.

In any case, I'm not sure why it matters. It's a technical exercise which should be played musically but has no intrinsic performance value, so the notes you play are between you, your clarinet and the book you're reading from. No one else will ever (want to) hear them, so as long as the displacements don't take you out of key, it doesn't seem to make much difference.

Have you tried playing the exercises the way you think they should be? I wonder if doing it that way throws the end off in some way.

Karl

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