Celebrated Method for Clarinet

Contents

• Rudiments of Music
• General Information on the Clarinet and its care
• First Sounds to be practised
• Preparatory exercises and the chromatic scale
• Respiration, demi-respiration and the manner of breathing
• Solvejg's Song (Grieg/ Kent)
• 68 Exercises of mechanism
• Fifty progressive duets for two clarinets
• Practical exercises easy on the Boehm instrument
• Table of tonics, leading notes and dominants
• Table of altered or leading notes and the degrees on which they are found
• Scales and exercises
• Change of fingering on the same note
• Articulation
• 45 Exercises upon different combinations of articulation
• Slurred notes
• Pointed notes
• The staccato
• The proper rendering of the sound
• Syncopation
• Cut or intercepted notes
• Swelled and diminished sounds
• The appoggiatura
• The gruppetto
• Gruppetto with 3 and 4 notes
• The trill or shake
• The Mordent
• Ornaments or flourishes in melody
• Arpeggios
• Love Dreams (Liszt/ Kent)
• From Mountain and Valley (Kent)
• Stephen Foster Songs
• Serenade (Drigo/ Kent)
• Puppe Valsante (Poldini/ Kent)
• List of principal words used in modern music