The New Imperial Method
For Clarinet
clarinet
The New Imperial Method
For Clarinet
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The New Imperial Method by C.L. Staats is a one volume method book with a fingering chart by Austin J. McDowell. The method book includes basics of posture, embouchure, and finger position as well as making the first sound on the clarinet. The book then delves deeper into major and minor scales, followed by articulation studies. The last quarter of the book is reserved for Etudes written by Hyacinthe Klose and Cyrille Rose.
Contents
- Qualities and Compass of the Clarinet
- Position of the Player
- His Hands and Fingers
- On the Mouthpiece and Reed
- Position of the Mouthpiece in the Mouth
- Tone and the Manner of Producing It
- Advice to the Student
- First Sounds to be Practiced
- The Slur
- Easy Exercises in Mechanism
- Exercises for the First Finger of the Left Hand
- Exercises for the Thumb or Octave Key
- Exercises in Mechanism
- Chromatic Scale
- Major and Minor Scales
- Scale Studies
- Exercises (Boehm Clarinet)
- The Staccato
- Studies in Staccato
- Studies on the Lower Notes
- Studies in Articulation
- Half or Legato Staccato
- Scales in Thirds
- Major and Minor
- Major and Minor Chords in All Keys
- Dominant 7th
- Diminished 7th
- Musical Taste and Expression
- Different Combinations of Articulation
- Etudes in Various Keys
- Studies in the Medium Register
- On Phrasing
- Grand Etudes by KlosF and Rose
