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MUSIC 132.1

Beginning Woodwind Techniques

Spring Semester 2005 Syllabus

Instructor:

Dr. Deborah Andrus, Room 318

Phone: (610) 625-7512

Email: andrus@moravian.edu (school)

dea_clarinet@verizon.net (home)

Course Goal:

To prepare the student to teach woodwind instruments to beginner instrumentalists.

Textbooks:

Westphal, F. W. (1989). Guide to Teaching Woodwinds, (3rd Ed.). McGraw-Hill.

McCaskill, & Gilliam (1993). The Flutist’s Companion. Mel Bay Publishers

Worksheets: To be provided by the instructor.

Content:

Aug. 29

Introduction

Introduction to Woodwind Tech.

Syllabus; grading; texts; homework and practicing.

Check out instruments.

Aug. 31

Clarinet 1

Student aptitudes, ranges/transposition, parts/assembly, starting embouchure,

holding positions, care, first sounds.

Sept. 9

Clarinet 2

Perform tunes on top joint only, bottom joint notes, advanced embouchure.

Sept. 12

Clarinet 3

Tuning and intonation; register names; factors that cause

sharpness and flatness; basic articulation, tone problems and solutions.

Sept. 16

Clarinet 4

Chromatic fingerings, left hand: C/D, D/E, F/G, right hand:

(pinkies) E, F, F/G, G/A. Rules for fingering low notes.

Sept. 19

Clarinet 5

Technique problems and solutions w/little fingers and throat tones,

Chromatic fingerings in low register and low notes.

Sept. 23

Clarinet 6

Clarion register, break, chromatic scales

Sept. 26

Clarinet 7

Mid-term clarinet quiz on the break, clarion register and one-octave scales.

Sept. 30

Clarinet 8

Problems and solutions for crossing the break, introduction to altissimo.

Assignment: Begin outline for clarinet from Westphal and class notes.

Oct. 3

Clarinet 9

History of clarinet; review of study materials and solos;

instrument, mouthpiece and reed selection.

Oct. 7

Sax 1

Clarinet outline DUE! Student aptitudes; ranges and transpositions; registers

and break; Assembly; tuning; holding and hand position; care.

Fall Break!

Oct. 14

Oboe 1

Aptitudes; ranges; parts and assembly; reeds and reed

styles; embouchure and tone production; half hole and

octave keys; care. Assignment: Begin Sax and Oboe outlines.

Spring Semester 2005 Syllabus

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