More Clarinet Secrets: 100 Quick Tips for the Advanced Clarinetist - Softcover

Gingras, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810877945 ISBN 13: 9780810877948

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2011

Synopsis

It takes considerable patience, hard work, and perseverance to achieve mastery on a musical instrument. Proper guidance is critical to success in music, and part of that guidance includes finding resources that provide up-to-date strategies for reaching your professional goals. More Clarinet Secrets: 100 Quick Tips for the Advanced Clarinetist does just that, revealing secrets of the trade that can increase your chances of thriving as a clarinetist and musical professional.

A sequel to Michele Gingras's highly praised first book, Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist, this new book is a treasure trove of completely new information on how to turn clarinetists into informed musicians, offering them the tools they need to compete in the music world. Topics discussed include technique, tone and intonation, musicianship, reeds and equipment, repertoire, musicians' health, and the music profession. In addition, Gingras supplies extra tips on such matters as college auditions, website design, and self-marketing.

The pedagogical ideas gathered in this book are the result of Gingras's more than 25 years of hands-on experience spent in the clarinet studio working with students. Advanced high school clarinetists, college-level clarinetists, and seasoned professionals will all find More Clarinet Secrets a valuable read.

About this title

About the Author

Michele Gingras is professor of clarinet at Miami University in Ohio, where she was named Curry Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate Faculty. She has performed and taught master classes worldwide, released over a dozen CDs, published over 170 articles and reviews, and authored Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist (Scarecrow Press, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810877945
• ISBN 13: 9780810877948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204