Bassoon Reed Making: A Pedagogic History - Hardcover

Schillinger, Christin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253018153 ISBN 13: 9780253018151

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have had on the practice of reed making and performance today. Schillinger traces the pedagogy of reed making from the earliest known publication addressing bassoon pedagogy in 1687 through the publication of Julius Weissenborn’s Praktische Fagott-Schule and concludes with an in-depth look at contemporary methodologies developed by Louis Skinner, Don Christlieb, Norman Herzberg, and Lewis Hugh Cooper. Aimed at practitioners and pedagogues of the bassoon, this book provides a deeper understanding of the history and technique surrounding reed-making craft and instruction.

About this title

About the Author:

Christin M. Schillinger is an internationally recognized bassoon performer, scholar and pedagogue. Her solo albums, Bassoon Transcended (2013) and Bassoon Surrounded (2009) on the MSR Classics label display her advocacy for living composers.

Review:

..".a broad, inclusive study that identifies the most important writings on the subject from the past, and demonstrates how they have influenced reed making and its pedagogy over two centuries." Dennis Michel, Second Bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds at Roosevelt University"

"A broad, inclusive study that identifies the most important writings on the subject from the past, and demonstrates how they have influenced reed making and its pedagogy over two centuries." Dennis Michel, Second Bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds at Roosevelt University"

" unique in its scope and breadth, and thus stands alone as a general history of reed making pedagogy." Dennis Michel, Bassoonist, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds in the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University"

"Unique in its scope and breadth, and thus stands alone as a general history of reed making pedagogy." Dennis Michel, Bassoonist, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds in the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University"

"Unique in its scope and breadth, and thus stands alone as a general history of reed making pedagogy." --Dennis Michel, Bassoonist, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds in the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

-Unique in its scope and breadth, and thus stands alone as a general history of reed making pedagogy.- --Dennis Michel, Bassoonist, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds in the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253018153
• ISBN 13: 9780253018151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176