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Author: kilo
Date: 2025-12-27 19:40
I've always enjoyed working out of Jeanjean's Études Progressive et Mélodiques and 18 Études. I like the way he uses whole tone scales, odd meters, crowded key signatures, and other devices of musical Impressionism. Some of the pieces are so pretty that when I run into a difficult fingering I automatically blame the composer – "Didn't this guy ever play a clarinet?" – and then, of course, I remember that I'm practicing an ètude! I wonder if any of you know other books of studies that have similar musical qualities – I know a lot of the names from the back covers of exercise books but I don't know what they sound like. Difficulty isn't an issue as I primarily work on selected passages which offer specific challenges.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-12-27 20:24
There are the Alfred Uhl studies. For some reason, they are well-nigh forgotten. Uhl was a composer in his own right and worked with the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic when writing these studies. The great American clarinetist and teacher, Mitchell Lurie, used them regularly with his students.
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Author: paulyb
Date: 2025-12-30 01:38
I'd second the Uhl - quite a range of difficulties and interesting to play. They may be more well-known in the German clarinet world given that I remember Sebastian Manz recommending them in an interview.
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2025-12-30 04:42
Jettel - The Accomplished Clarinettist (All three books)
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2025-12-30 07:15
There are a few contemporary style books out there (including my own) such as by Opperman, John P. Russo, Frantisek Zitek to name a few. But the Jeanjean books are quite different IMO. More tonal for sure, always a difficult key to deal with, and much more melodic/diatonic development.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-12-30 16:20
Hi rmk54. I hold the Jettel Accomplished set in lofty regard, but I held off on recommending them because the Weinberger edition is so full of errors. I state that as an amateur without access to the original material, but many of the errors are obviously so. For example, the opening theme in a piece structured as A-B-A lacking an accidental in the reprise, or note values not adding up to an even measure, or etc. Jettel was not an experimental composer, he was creative and unformulaic, and his music was tonal and made musical sense, but if you read the Weinberger edition literally then almost every etude in books I and II is harshly marred.
I sent a correction list to Weinberger in 2016, and they said they'd get back to me, but they never did. There was a time when I memorized books I and II (not III, because it includes piano accompaniment, and I don't know any pianists,) and I harbored an idea of recording a video of those 31 etudes as corrected. For a few years now I've moved away from that project to work on technique, and that's almost there - hah, "almost".
The Jettel Accomplished series deserves a good edition, which would allow them to be studied, taught, performed and enjoyed far more than they are.
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