Mastery of extended techniques is essential for performing clarinetists today. As the instrument and music written for it continues to change and evolve, players have responded the same way they have historically responded, by creatively leading the instrument to new expressive levels. I hope that these pages and the DVD that it accompanies will contribute to these aspirations of professional and student clarinetists, and their teachers.
The booklet accompanying the DVD provides descriptions and explanations of the concepts and exercises presented in the 54 video clips that make up the DVD movie section of The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century DVD . Further information, including links to clarinet, composer, and publisher websites, is available on the DVD-Rom section of this disc, as well as in the hard-copy books, CD-Roms, and this website:
The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century (2nd edition; 2005)
The Bass Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century (2nd edition; 2005)
The E-flat Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century (2nd edition; 2005)
The 54 Clips of the DVD Movie:
1) ACOUSTIC PRINCIPLES MIXED SYSTEM
2 ACOUSTIC PRINCIPLES CHROMATIC FINGERING TEMPLATES
3) THEORY OF FINGER TECHNIQUE
4) PARTIALS FOR ALTERNATE FINGERINGS
5) ALTERNATE FINGERINGS INTONATION, COLOR
6) ALTERNATE FINGERINGS LEGATO
7) ALTERNATE FINGERINGS AMPLITUDE
8) CHALUMEAU RESONANCE FINGERINGS LANDINI EXERCISES
9) CHALUMEAU MUTED FINGERINGS MOZART/WEBER EXERCISES
10) CLARION MUTED FINGERINGS ETUDE B EXERCISES
11) ALTISSIMO REGISTER THUMB VENT
12) ALTISSIMO REGISTER C# KEY VENT
13) ALTISSIMO REGISTER A-FLAT/A KEY VENT
14) ALTISSIMO REGISTER THROAT-TONE OVERBLOW
15) ALTISSIMO REGISTER SIDE KEY VENTS
16) COMPOSITE FINGERINGS ETUDE C EXERCISES
17) ALTERNATE FINGERINGS TIMBRE CONTRASTS ETUDE A EXERCISES
18) QUARTER-TONE SCALE
19) QUARTER-TONE SEGMENTS SELETSKY ETUDE EXERCISES
20) QUARTER-TONE TRILLS, TREMOLOS, VIBRATO, PORTAMENTO
21) QUARTER-TONE SEGMENTS WITH PEDAL TRILL
22) EQUIDISTANT MICROTONAL SCALES ETUDE E1 EXERCISES
23) EASY MICROTONAL SEGMENTS
24) EASY CONJUNCT MICROTONAL SEGMENTS MATSUO ETUDE EXERCISES
25) DISJUNCT MICROTONAL MOTION
26) DISJUNCT MICROTONAL TRILLS ETUDE COLOR MICROTONES EXERCISES
27) MICROTONAL PORTAMENTO NISHIMURA ETUDE EXERCISES
28) MULTIPHONIC ACOUSTICS SAME LH FINGERING
29) MULTIPHONIC PITCH EXPLANATION
30) MULTIPHONIC PRODUCTION
31) BALANCED MULTIPHONIC DIADS ETUDE 2 EXERCISES
32) HIGH VOICE FADE MULTIPHONICS ETUDE 2A EXERCISES
33) LOW VOICE FADE MULTIPHONICS ETUDE 2C EXERCISES
34) TWO VOICE FADE MULTIPHONICS ETUDE 2C EXERCISES
35) SING/HUM AND PLAY MULTIPHONICS
36) MULTIPHONICS OF THREE OR MORE VOICES ETUDE 4 EXERCISES
37) MULTIPHONIC PORTAMENTO SEQUENCES ETUDE EXERCISES
38) MULTIPHONIC DIAD TRILLS ETUDE EXERCISES
39) THICK MULTIPHONICS ETUDE EXERCISES
40) MULTIPHONIC TRILLS WITH SUSTAINED HIGHEST PITCH ETUDE i EXERCISES
41) ATYPICAL MULTIPHONIC TRILLS ETUDE ii EXERCISES
42) MULTIPHONICS ABOVE CHALUMEAU PITCHES
43) PORTAMENTO
44) VIBRATO
45) FLUTTER TONGUE
46) REINFORCED FORMANTS FROM SINGING/HUMMING
47) EXERCISES FOR ETUDE iii HALF-PITCHED TRILLS
48) TUBE EXTENSIONS
49) VOCAL FRY
50) AIRY PITCHES
51) BASS CLARINET PORTAMENTO
52) BASS CLARINET HALF-PITCHED PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS
53) BASS CLARINET MULTIPLE LINES OF HALF-PITCHED SOUNDS
54) BASS CLARINET VOCAL FRY
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