A Guide to Effective Practice-Concentration on individual aspects of playing the bassoon will make it easier to identify and correct errors and imprecision. By working steadily through these exercises you can acquire a basic technique that will enable you to tackle difficult passages in the bassoon repertoire.Such meticulous attention to detail will help you achieve the freedom to follow your intuition in a spontaneous musical performance.Georg Klütsch b. 1951 in Düren trained as a music teacher in Mainz and studied the bassoon with Prof. Helman Jung in Detmold. For many years he was principal bassoonist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble. He was professor atthe Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar. Since 2001 he has been professor of bassoon and chamber music at the Cologne Academy of Music also teaching international master classes.

Cohen?s compositions for flute ensembles, ranging from duets through large choirs, are well known and frequently performed. Less familiar than his flute chamber music is a treasure chest of gems for mixed wind trio, mostly written for the Fortunata Trio. Playdates, Book I introduces three of these short, charming works: Stalking the Wild Catnip Mouse, I?m Skipping, Even If Everyone Is Watching, and But I Always Have This Much Sugar for Breakfast!

An Essential Resource for Educators Conductors & Students-This book was designed for use in a one or two semester heterogeneous college woodwind methods class or as a quick reference manual for school band and orchestra directors. It provides concise descriptions including instrument similarities and differences breath support reed adjustment and transposition. Includes:• Instrument assembly embouchure hand position and articulation• Carefully detailed fingering charts with clearly detailed primary fingerings and explanation of selected alternate fingerings and trill fingerings• Progressive musical exercises/compositions often harmonized to allow students to learn new fingerings at aneven pace while enjoying the ensemble sound• Advanced concepts: alternate fingerings vibrato flicking and multiple articulation• Trouble shooting for mechanical or reed problems repair and maintenance• Recommendations for selecting: Reeds Mouthpieces & ligatures Instruments Method books and study literature Constructing a basic woodwind “toolbox”

After the Oboe and Clarinet sonata the Bassoon sonata forms the conclusion of the wind compositions from Saint-Saens due to his death in 1921 - the also planned Sonata for English Horn never to be composed.Playing thehumorous not too technically demanding work you can hardly imagine that the composer did not feel particularly familiar on this instrument.

Team Woodwind is designed for everyone who wants to learn to play woodwind. This method:presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each studentis ideal for individual group or class tuitioncontains plenty of carefully graded music in a wide variety of stylesencourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for mixed wind group and integrates with ensemble music in Team Brassoffers more than 40 pieces which can be played in unison between flute and clarinetcontains over 50 well-known titles selected fromthe worlds of pop jazz and the shows as well as traditional and folk materialprovides imaginative piano accompaniments for selected pieces and chord symbols where appropriatedevelops instrument-related aural skills improvisation and compositionoffers helpful notes for the teacher together with clear ensemble scores.