SKU: FH.WC1
ISBN 978-1-55440-577-0.
This new series offers a sequenced approach to the study of clarinet from the beginner to advanced levels. With a progressive collection of Repertoire, Etudes, Recordings, Orchestral Excerpts, and Technique, the Clarinet Series, 2014 Edition provides complete support for teachers and students at every level of study. Nine progressive volumes of Repertoire expose students to a wealth of music from the earliest works for clarinet to accompanied and unaccompanied contemporary compositions. Students will explore some of the most definitive solo pieces written for clarinet, along with popular folk tunes, Klezmer melodies, Classical solos, and contemporary compositions that incorporate traditional and extended techniques.Technical Repertoire:Branch Line - Colin CowlesSpace-age Sonatina - Paul HarrisSkip - Errollyn WallenPeacherine Rag - Scott Joplin, arr. Forrest KinneyHornpipe - Henry Purcell, arr. Christine DonkinGavotte, HWV 491 - George Frideric Handel, arr. Christine DonkinGhoulish - Paul HarrisMajor-General's Song - Arthur Sullivan, arr. Martin van de VenLyrical Repertoire:All the Pretty Little Horses - American lullaby, arr. Jason GraySwanee River - Stephen Foster, arr. Christopher NortonChe faro senza Euridice? (What Shall I Do Without Euridice?) from Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald Gluck, arr. Jason NobleSentimental Serenade - Alan BullardEntr'acte, from Carmen - Georges Bizet, arr. Christine DonkinThe Wish - Mr. Tuke, arr. Paul HarrisLargo, from The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi, arr. Jason GrayHava Nagila - Israeli folk song, arr. Martin van de Ven and Forrest KinneyMinuet, BWV Anh. 132 - attr. Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Jason Gray.
SKU: HL.50600566
8.25x11.75x0.07 inches.
The Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä reports that he experienced a phase whilst working on his Horn Concerto in 2011 during which he had the feeling of “having landed in a deadendâ€. To find a remedy, he decided to develop a kind of “finger exercise†for composers, comparable to the “warming-up process of an instrumental soloist before performingâ€. Räihälä remembers furthermore: “Instead of writing for orchestra, I started a short solo piece for clarinet. Little did I know that I had opened a Pandora's box! I wrote 'Soliloque 1: Étoffé' in two days. Perhaps this frenzy caused the music to become restless, with quick turns – in short, a rather virtuosic etude. The clarinet seeks paths, at first without success, but obviously finding one in the end. And what about the Pandora's Box? I had given the title the number one, and during the next two years I wrote five more Soliloques, solos of six to seven minutes, for various instruments, as well as one for soprano a cappella. The title Étoffé means 'rich', or 'well rounded', but also 'fabric' or even a 'patch' - and I felt that I had patched something in my work that was broken; indeed, working on the concerto now gave me a fresh start.â€.