Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist - Softcover

Gingras, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810857332 ISBN 13: 9780810857339

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2006

Synopsis

The advanced clarinetist, eager to improve quickly, often hits a wall on challenging techniques such as rapid tonguing and the precise control of intonation. Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist offers a year-long course in these and other important techniques for clarinet performance, providing a secret for every week of the year. Learn practical and technical secrets about
·Fingering strategies
·Circular breathing
·High register
·Sight-reading and Orchestral repertoire
·Mental concentration and memorization
·Reed fixing and equipment
·Career-planning

Discussed in a straightforward way, the concepts are explained clearly and thoroughly and illustrated with photos, diagrams, and musical examples. This newly revised edition contains updated information on harmonics, electronic music and equipment, and expanded techniques for playing Klezmer music. An audio CD with excerpts performed by the author helps to fully demonstrate each concept. Printed with a lay-flat binding for use on music stands, Clarinet Secrets is perfect for all clarinetists, whether students in a class or private situation, professionals searching for technical or musical challenges, or instructors doing pedagogical research.

About this title

About the Author

Michele Gingras is Professor of Clarinet at Miami University in Ohio, and is past secretary of the International Clarinet Association (ICA).

Review

Although Michèle Gingras designates 'advanced' clarinetists in the sub-title to her book, there is a wealth of material in Clarinet Secrets that can benefit less accomplished clarinetists....I congratulate Michèle Gingras on a well-thought-out and handsomely-presented handbook which contains a great deal of useful advice, concepts, and ideas for clarinetists. Ideally, it should go through many printings in the future. The accompanying CD of Gingras performing clearly illustrates many of the techniques she addresses in the book. This volume should be on the reference shelves of music libraries and band rooms, and in the personal libraries of clarinet teachers and students across North America and beyond. It is a fine contribution to the study of clarinet playing in all its richness and diversity. (Canadian Winds)

Michèle Gingras' Clarinet Secrets deals with an incredibly wide range of tactics related to teaching and performing the clarinet and does so in an engaging and even entertaining way. The writing style is clear and to the point, never stodgy... Highly recommended. (Larry Combs, Principal Clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Clarinet Professor, De Paul University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810857332
• ISBN 13: 9780810857339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144