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Bearmann Clarinet Method III Op. 63

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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