The Clarinet Reed Revealed Through High-Speed Photography

The Clarinet Reed Revealed Through High-Speed Photography offers a never before seen look at the functioning of a vibrating clarinet reed through the use of high-speed photography. This fascinating insight into the vibrational characteristics of a clarinet reed is observed through shadow photography, direct photography, streak photography, and trace photography. Additional discussions on reed design, reed adjustments, and making a reed by hand are included in this one of a kind book.

Brent Coppenbarger is Professor of Music at the Cline School of Music at North Greenville University, where he has taught single reeds, music theory, and other music classes since 1995. Dr. Coppenbarger received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Wisconsin. He has a Master of Music Performance degree from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he studied with his father, Dr. Roger Coppenbarger. Roger Coppenbarger is Professor Emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he taught single reeds for over thirty years. Dr. Roger Coppenbarger holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Wichita. Brent Coppenbarger is author of Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, and Fine Tuning the Clarinet Section: A Handbook for the Band Director, published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.