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New Clarinet Books and Methods
This new page is designed to announce new
Clarinet Books and Clarinet Methods to assist teachers and players on current
pedagogical trends and developments. Earlier released books from the past
of interest and importance are also included, and interested teachers and
players are invited submit suggestions for inclusion. Available Books and
related materials available through various firms with extensive catalogs as
including below:
Eble Music - Clarinet
Opus - Two Clarinet
Books
Luyben Music - Clarinet
Van Cott Music Services
Woodwind Basics: Core concepts for playing and
teaching flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone is a fresh,
no-nonsense approach to woodwind technique. It outlines the principles
common to playing all of the woodwind instruments, and explains their
application to each one.
The ideas in this book are
critical for woodwind players at all levels, and have been battle-tested in
university woodwind methods courses, private studios, and school band halls.
Fundamental question...s
answered with newfound clarity include:
•What should I listen for in good woodwind playing?
•Why is breath support so important, and how do I do and teach it?
•What is voicing? How does it relate to ideas like air speed, air
temperature, and vowel shapes?
•What things does an embouchure need to accomplish?
•How can I (or my students) play better in tune?
•What role does the tongue really play in articulation?
•Which alternate fingering should I choose in a given situation?
•How do I select the best reeds, mouthpieces, and instruments?
•How should a beginner choose which instrument is the best fit?
Woodwind Basics by Bret Pimentel is the new
go-to reference for woodwind players and teachers.
A journal to help students, teachers, and
professionals maximize practice time and increase performance output. The
journal is organized into five sections: Scales/Long Tones, Technical Studies,
Etudes, Repertoire, and Excerpts. Students are encouraged to record their work
in each category and add the total time in each column and each row to help them
compare their progress week to week. For the teacher, this provides a easily
accessible assignment sheet and snapshot of your student's practice each week.
Students and teachers alike will notice large gains in practice productivity and
consistency in their performance.
News from Kyrill Rybakov and Thomas Sattler-
Fujimoto
Mastering both French and German clarinet system.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful book.
(a world know master on both systems is the great VIP
Michele Zukovsky)
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Teaching Woodwinds: A Guide for Students and Teachers
is a comprehensive resource perfectly suited for university
woodwind technique classes, band directors needing woodwind
details, or anyone looking for in-depth information on how
to play and teach the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon or
saxophone.
Teaching Woodwinds is the only resource of its
kind: a book and a web site. The book contains playing
exercises for each instrument, group exercises in score
form, and fingering and trill charts. The web site contains
information about how to play each instrument including
sub-chapters on getting started, technique, intonation, tone
and much more, and offers over three hundred full color
images, 130 videos, audio files, PDF downloads,
PowerPoint/Keynote quizzes, and hundreds of links. When you
purchase the book you also receive an access code that
allows entry into the Teaching Woodwinds web site.
Purchase Teaching Woodwinds
Designed to be a lifelong resource, the platform of a
book and web site has provided the authors with a rich
palette with which to deliver the content with clarity and
precision. As readers progress through the web content, they
will find references to the exercises in the book that are
designed to reinforce the information on the web page. This
format serves as an effective woodwind methods curriculum,
and will continue to be a valuable resource for music
educators long after graduation.
Need help with brass instruments? Teaching Brass: A
Guide for Students and Teachers uses the same platform
and is also available from Mountain Peak Music.
The new biography of
Sabine Meyer by Margarete Zander: amusing,
informative and with many personal photos! Comprehensive discography
A Major
Clarinet Method for all Teachers and Students to develop their total skills
Book by late VIP
David Etheridge
Richard Gilbert’s
Newest clarinet
Discography
The 20th Century & Beyond
New CD Book –
over 300 pages
Buy Clarinet Book @ $34.95and get a free CD your
choice
Dahl/Castelnuovo-Tedesco/Hindemith
or
Ralph McLane or Simeon Bellison
For more
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Specify which CD
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www.woodwindeducatorspress.org
Presents:
Clarinet
Skill Builders Series by David Etheridge
I am
delighted to see that someone has finally prepared books to
compliment the many fine books used in teaching today. These
"Skill Builders" go beyond the usual exercises and give
excellent, clear approaches to the various techniques needed to
develop the aspiring clarinetists. Each presents clear, well
illustrated approaches to the various skills needed in fine
clarinet playing.
Do not
overlook the Intermediate book - it fills that area that is so
often neglected.
Fred Ormand
Professor Emeritus
The University of Michigan
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David
Etheridge’s new set of books entitled A Practical Approach to
the Clarinet is an absolutely terrific addition to the
pedagogical literature for clarinet. David’s work over the past
forty years comes through very clearly in the entire series as
these present a unique way of identifying a specific approach to
performing music with the clarinet and the problems inherent in
that music making. There are many fine ideas presented in a
logical manner and are accompanied by many pictures to help both
the student and teacher understand the concepts and approach
presented. I congratulate David on his work and thank him for
giving the clarinet world a unique approach to clarinet teaching
and performance.
Russell
Dagon
Emeritus Professor of Music
Northwestern University
Retired
Principal Clarinet
The
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
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THE EVERYDAY VIRTUOSO by Robert Chesebro and Tod Kerstetter
A Structured
Approach to Developing Technique for Collegiate and Advanced H.S. Clarinetists
and Woodwind Players. 118 Pages.
$29.95.
Published by Woodwindiana.com
The book is available locally
from Pecknel Music, the Furman University Bookstore, and other local and
national clarinet / woodwind vendors.
Some recent comments:
“With a thorough
examination of the kinds of traditional patterns that make up the bulk of the
music we play, and an orderly look at the muscular learning process, authors
Chesebro and Kerstetter craft a sensible and successful method to give all
students the technical tools they need to play our repertoire.”
“It describes the proven
practice methods that Dr. Chesebro has used for years to develop outstanding
clarinetists in the state of South Carolina. Dr. Chesebro believes that all
clarinetists with a good work ethic (and the willingness to spend some serious
time with the metronome!) can develop outstanding technique. Subjects include
basic practice concepts, establishing a daily routine of scales and arpeggios,
polishing techniques, managing practice sessions, developing articulation, and
more.”
"I've read through most of your book and I really like it! It's very helpful
for me to have all of those practice tips in writing so I can reference them
whenever I'm stuck.”
“I
wish I would have had someone explain all of these practice tips to me years
ago. It would have made me a much better player."
“I just got your new
book…BRAVO!! I'll be teaching Clarinet and Bassoon at PC this semester, and I
plan on making all my students read it and live by it.”
“I've been practicing all the scales and chords each day now and I have noticed
a vast improvement in my playing and overall confidence. Playing the material in
your book was like taking vitamins. It has done so much to improve my musical
health.”
“I just obtained your book yesterday. I am so impressed with the systematic
organization of the material.”
“I
appreciate being reminded that the basics should never be overlooked in practice
sessions. I'm back on the right track now thanks to your excellent book.”
“I'm sure musicians of any level will find the material in this book to be of
great value.”
“The
concept of 'cold tempos' and 'hot tempos' was new to me. This makes perfect
sense now. I've always been frustrated by being able to play a passage up to
tempo one day, and then find it has regressed the next day. For some reason, I
never put this concept together on my own. After I read it, it was like a light
bulb went off! Pure common sense!”
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