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Re: Any Practice Books on Altissimo?

Author: qualitycontrol
Date: 2016-09-25 06:11

I've been working on my altissimo lately with two books that were recommended by my teacher. Apart they would both leave a little to be desired but I find they work very well together.

The first is maybe only available in french, and his writings are interesting and do add to the practice, but I'm sure it would still be a useful book if you can only understand the written music. It focuses less on fingerings in the altissimo than it does on work extracting harmonics from fundamental fingerings (and getting those to sound good and in-tune without the use of fancy fingerings). It has exercises that go up to triple-high c, so it's a bit overkill. It's by Joseph Marchi and it's called Étude des harmoniques et du suraigu. Maybe available in english, I'm not sure.

The other is a book focused on tone development by Alessandro Carbonare called Clarinet Tone: Art and Technique. Only about a quarter of it is devoted to the altissimo but the exercises are very good, there are snippets of Brahms, Bartok, Berg etc. transposed in half steps so that you are working on repertory, but playing it in many keys, having to adapt the line to various ranges, usually from about 3rd space D up to double-high C.

Neither offer much in terms of working on articulation in the upper altissimo, but both are good for tone development and controlling those notes at any dynamic.

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