Modern Études for Low Clarinets
Composer: James Marshall
Publisher: Mel Bay
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From the preface:
"I wrote this book for students and colleagues to satisfy the need for low clarinet material to use as studies and in competitions. While it has become commonplace to use soprano clarinet material for low clarinets, there is the inherent problem of their ideal tessituras or ranges not being the same. The fact is soprano clarinet etudes were never intended for use by low or bass clarinets.
Many students contribute to the sonority of their school bands by learning the bass clarinet. Most schools' own instruments that are standard equipment to be passed on from year to year, student to student. Experts in the field know that these instruments can't play higher than G5, yet many state competitions require the low clarinets to play soprano clarinet etudes that go a full octave higher. The pieces in this book are primarily for low clarinet, but their contemporary nature makes them appealing to soprano clarinetists in the rich chalumeau to moderate clarion registers. Instead of encountering notes that are too high, however, soprano clarinetists will occasionally find notes that are too low; for example, in the instance of the low E-flat of the bass clarinet that occurs in some of these studies, soprano clarinetists will need to transpose these notes up by an appropriate interval.
Modern Etudes for Low Clarinets utilizes modern motifs, frequent meter changes and rhythms that are idiomatic to the low instruments. Nine of the etudes are original and four pay homage to Bartok, Hindemith, Debussy—after La cathedral engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), and Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring."
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Pages: 21
Pages (score):
Publisher Code: MB30799
UPC: 9781513468686
ISBN: 9781513468686
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Length: 29.8 cm
Width: 22.3 cm
Thickness: 0.25 cm
Weight: 114 g
