ISBN 9781609743345. Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. The exercises will help refine your tone, improve your technique and enhance your musical expression ICo these are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. The studies in this book evolved from the Baermann Scale studies. For impetus and melodic direction, each exercise begins on the upbeat. The studies are written using eighth notes in Alla Breve. All studies are re-ordered from the original to a more logical sequence, staying within a given key for each exercise. The studies cover a broad range of musical forms including simple, interrupted and returning scales; major, minor and broken chords; dominant sevenths, thirds and sixths; fifths and octaves and diminished sevenths. Includes many diagrams to aid in learning new fingerings.

ISBN 9781610650564. This volume presents keyboard works and solos songs by Johannes Brahms arranged for solo clarinet with piano accompaniment. These nine works have been carefully chosen to stay within the abilities of the intermediate level clarinetist. In most pieces the clarinet part makes only brief extensions into the altissimo register emphasizing instead notes in the lower two registers. As with all works of Brahms, the accompanying parts (here the piano) are prominent and often are of equal importance with the solo part. For this reason the piano part will require a performer of equal ability to the clarinetist. The music presented here is of high quality and gives the intermediate clarinetist interesting literature to perform for contest or recitals.