SKU: HL.48180367

UPC: 888680796167. 9x12 inches.

Written for upper-intermediate to advanced clarinet players, these scales and exercises are a set of studies tailored for advanced courses. Composed by Gaston Hamelin, this piece includes a really explanatory preface that describes the positioning and the annotations that are crucial to an understanding of the book. Ideal to continue developing skills and technique, they focus on mastering scales arpeggios and trills to obtain a fluidity of the tone. Gaston Hamelin (1884-1951) was a French carinettist and teacher. He became the first clarinettist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and went back to France in the 1930s to teach his instrument.

SKU: HL.48181573

UPC: 888680845360. 9.0x12.0x0.09 inches.

Little is known about French composer, Victor Blancou. Yet, his Forty Studies remain popular in the progression of Clarinet studies. The first volume of Forty Studies contains twenty studies which focus on articulation, dynamics, scales, intervals, expression, tempo, fingering, phrasing, breath control, range, chromaticism, rhythms and ornamentation, among other aspects. This Blancou study book is essential to the progression of technique for all aspiring clarinetists..

SKU: HL.14011933

ISBN 9788759859902.

Work for Clarinet solo. The composer writes 'The title refers to several levels in the piece. Partly a method I have used, where three lines are weaved, so they become one line, here the clarinet which can (nearly) only play one tone at the time. Either the three parts disappear and become one waving melodic line as in the beginning of the piece. Or they are put in different registers of the clarinet, so they are heard as separate lines weaving into one another. On a different level there is three different sequences, which are also weaved into one another; one which rises (for instance in the beginning), and one which falls, and one which falls in parallels in several registers. These three sequences become faster and faster every time they reappear. The idea of weaving melodic lines was inspired by Bach's pieces for solo strings, where he in a marvellous way established several simultaneous melodic lines, without simultaneous sounding notes. This happened by weaving parts, which in other works would sound simultaneously, into one another, so that only one note was heard at the time. This meant that in that long line, which was heard as the instrument's development of the piece, other melodies were weaving around each other with different focuses. Woven Lines was commissioned by DUT with support from the Danish Arts' Council.'.

SKU: IS.BC6928EM

ISBN 9790365069286.

Antony Clare was born in Nottingham in 1964. He read music at York University and has subsequently combined private instrumental teaching with a range of performing activities. He has formed several successful partnerships with local musicians, focusing on the contemporary music repertoire. In addition to being one half of SCAW (with Sarah Watts, bass clarinet), he particularly enjoys performing 20th century English song repertoire and playing chamber music for piano and wind as pianist with the Hough Ensemble. His composition 'Sybil' was written for bass clarinet soloist Sarah Watts, who did extensive research on bass clarinet multiphonics. This piece is a great illustration on the integration of multiphonics in contemporary music.