1: The Educator’s Guide to the Clarinet by Thomas Ridenour
This is a very good pedagogy book. The first six chapters involve various playing techniques, and are filled with drawings, exercises, descriptions and methods that will help both the teacher and student understand how each playing technique works. The last half of the book deals with equipment, and gives the teacher the objective knowledge about clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds and accessories. That way the teacher can select the best and most appropriate equipment for their students.
2: The Clarinet Doctor by Howard Klug This book is also a classic in clarinet pedagogy. The first half of the book contains a complete curriculum to learning technical patterns, flexibility studies, tone control and practice discipline. The second half focuses on a pedagogical discussion of the various component parts of clarinet playing. The parts that he talks about are breathing, body posture, hand position, tongue and throat, adjusting and making single reeds, squeaks, and bass clarinet. This book also comes with annotated lists of repertoire and a complete college curriculum. 3: The Art of Clarinet Playing by Keith Stein This pedagogy book covers everything performance related. …show more content…
The chapters in this book are as follows: The Mouthpiece and Ligature, The Reed, The Clarinet, Embouchure, Relaxation, Breathing and Support, Voicing the tone, Opening up, and Playing through the Clarinet, Release and Tonguing, Hands and Fingers, Tone Quality, Matching Tones and Tonal Power, Intonation, High-Register Playing, Technique, Basic Fingerings and Reading Improvement, Balance of Resistance in Playing, Double-Lip Embouchure, Beginning Playing Procedures, The Cooley Rhythm System, Legato Articulation, Phrasing, Interpretation, and Musical Style, Suggested Literature for the Clarinet, Selected Etudes. Each of these chapters goes into incredible detail, making this book a must have.
4: The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing by David Pino This pedagogy book contains ideas about technique, tonguing and articulation, musicianship, and musical interpretation. This book also contains guidelines for teaching, making your own reeds, and preparing for public performance. It even covers some clarinet history.
5: The Effortless Clarinet by Richard Nunemaker This book is yet another great pedagogy book for clarinet. It covers how to hold the clarinet, breathing, embouchure, long tones, overtone exercises, mouthpiece exercises, scales, chords, reeds, tonguing, intonation, sight-reading, and how to practice. It even covers how to properly prepare for a lesson, audition or performance. 6: The Working Clarinetist by Marshall Burlingame This is a great all around book, simply because it covers so essential things that clarinetists need to know. The book is divided into four parts. The first part contains annotated orchestral excerpts, and many of them are part of the standard audition repertoire. The second part of the book covers many technical aspects of clarinet …show more content…
This new edition, however, is meant for all players, including those that are advanced. The Chapters are as follows: The Function of the Embouchure, the External Embouchure, Building the Muscles of the Lips, Building the Air Support Mechanism, An Introduction to Vowel Concepts, for Tonal Purity, A Vowel Concept for the Lips, The Internal Embouchure--Tongue Position Development, How a Good Embouchure Affects Articulation, Developing the Upper Lip, and Fundamental Concepts Set Forth in this Handbook. This book also contains many diagrams, photos, and musical
This is a very good pedagogy book. The first six chapters involve various playing techniques, and are filled with drawings, exercises, descriptions and methods that will help both the teacher and student understand how each playing technique works. The last half of the book deals with equipment, and gives the teacher the objective knowledge about clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds and accessories. That way the teacher can select the best and most appropriate equipment for their students.
2: The Clarinet Doctor by Howard Klug This book is also a classic in clarinet pedagogy. The first half of the book contains a complete curriculum to learning technical patterns, flexibility studies, tone control and practice discipline. The second half focuses on a pedagogical discussion of the various component parts of clarinet playing. The parts that he talks about are breathing, body posture, hand position, tongue and throat, adjusting and making single reeds, squeaks, and bass clarinet. This book also comes with annotated lists of repertoire and a complete college curriculum. 3: The Art of Clarinet Playing by Keith Stein This pedagogy book covers everything performance related. …show more content…
The chapters in this book are as follows: The Mouthpiece and Ligature, The Reed, The Clarinet, Embouchure, Relaxation, Breathing and Support, Voicing the tone, Opening up, and Playing through the Clarinet, Release and Tonguing, Hands and Fingers, Tone Quality, Matching Tones and Tonal Power, Intonation, High-Register Playing, Technique, Basic Fingerings and Reading Improvement, Balance of Resistance in Playing, Double-Lip Embouchure, Beginning Playing Procedures, The Cooley Rhythm System, Legato Articulation, Phrasing, Interpretation, and Musical Style, Suggested Literature for the Clarinet, Selected Etudes. Each of these chapters goes into incredible detail, making this book a must have.
4: The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing by David Pino This pedagogy book contains ideas about technique, tonguing and articulation, musicianship, and musical interpretation. This book also contains guidelines for teaching, making your own reeds, and preparing for public performance. It even covers some clarinet history.
5: The Effortless Clarinet by Richard Nunemaker This book is yet another great pedagogy book for clarinet. It covers how to hold the clarinet, breathing, embouchure, long tones, overtone exercises, mouthpiece exercises, scales, chords, reeds, tonguing, intonation, sight-reading, and how to practice. It even covers how to properly prepare for a lesson, audition or performance. 6: The Working Clarinetist by Marshall Burlingame This is a great all around book, simply because it covers so essential things that clarinetists need to know. The book is divided into four parts. The first part contains annotated orchestral excerpts, and many of them are part of the standard audition repertoire. The second part of the book covers many technical aspects of clarinet …show more content…
This new edition, however, is meant for all players, including those that are advanced. The Chapters are as follows: The Function of the Embouchure, the External Embouchure, Building the Muscles of the Lips, Building the Air Support Mechanism, An Introduction to Vowel Concepts, for Tonal Purity, A Vowel Concept for the Lips, The Internal Embouchure--Tongue Position Development, How a Good Embouchure Affects Articulation, Developing the Upper Lip, and Fundamental Concepts Set Forth in this Handbook. This book also contains many diagrams, photos, and musical