Product Overview
A wealth of information for the beginning clarinet or sax player. Includes many single-page pieces for Bb instrument with piano accompaniment.
Contents include:
Origin of the sax and clarinet;
Reading music;
Assembling & taking care of your instrument;
Posture, breathing, embouchure;
Fingering charts for sax & clarinet;
Technical Exercises;
History of music with composer bios; Mozart: Theme & Variations (Clarinet or any sax solo); Rameau: Menuet & Rondeau (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Handel: Sarabande (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Beethoven: Variations on a Swiss Song (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) von Weber: Trio theme (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Schumann: Choral Op. 68 #4 (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Brahms: Waltz Op. 39 #10 (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Khachaturian: Andantino (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Gershwin: Summertime (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) When the Saints Go Marching In (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.)
Taking lessons, buying music, playing in a band or orchestra;
Glossary of terms. ©2005, 96 pages.