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Re: How do you use the Klose Book?

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-02-13 05:01

In the US, The Simeon Bellison Carl-Fischer edition is still probably the most used version of Klose. It has been published in both a two-volume and a single-volume "complete" edition. Many teachers ask students to eventually memorize the "major and minor scales" and the "scales in thirds, major and minor" (pages 123, 126-7). The "Fifteen Grand Duets" (pages 136-201) in a sort of Mozartian style are way too hard for beginners but make good practice for intermediate-level students. The "Scales and Exercises" duets (pages 51-73) go through all the keys and offer excellent practice in varied time signatures and rhythmic subdivision but are also too hard for beginners. They are best taken up by students who have already worked through books like the Rubank series. The 141 "Practical Exercises ...for acquiring equality of the fingers" (44-48) are excellent and need to be followed up with similar finger equality work in the Baermann Method, book 2.

Post Edited (2021-02-14 05:21)

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