Completion of the goals in level one should instill a comfortable familiarity with the clarinet. At the same time, enthusiasm to tackle more advanced skills with both the clarinet and musical expression should develop. As muscle stamina develops, practice time should be increased to forty five minutes a day. Listening to accomplished players will establish good tonal and musical standards. During individual practice sessions, self evaluation and correction - playing, listening, thinking, adjusting, then playing again - will lead to small improvements each day.

Practice in the recommended study materials will impart an understanding of scales and chords and drill finger patterns so that new music can be performed more confidently and accurately. With the basic theoretical background outlined below, the student should begin to study music carefully before playing. As a result, more will be achieved during practice periods.

Technique study goals:

1. Know the chromatic fingerings from low E to high F including alternate fingerings (a total of 38 notes). Learn good finger position and movement.
2. Refine finger motion and control.
3. Develop the ability to sustain long tones for ten seconds. Continue to improve tone quality.
4. Improve tongue and finger coordination. Always maintain clean articulation. Strive for control at faster speeds.
5. Continue to develop solid rhythmic concepts and control.

Theory study goals:

1. Know and perform major scales and tonic chords up to three sharps and three flats. Construct minor scales and minor tonic chords up to three sharps and three flats.
2. Aurally and visually recognize intervals up to a fifth.
3. Aurally identify major and minor triads.
4. Expand vocabulary of tempo and style terms.
   
   

LEVEL 2 STUDY MATERIAL

Hite, David: Foundation Studies
Contents: Baermann Method, Part III
This volume serves as a lifelong daily study book which can be used to solve nearly every technical problem the clarinetist will encounter. "How to practice" routines and general advice sections are included.

Hite, David: Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1
Contents:
Demnitz: 18 Expressive Studies (based on scales)
Demnitz: 18 Expressive Studies (based on chords)
Nocentini: 24 Melodic Studies
Baermann: 24 Melodic Studies (from bk. II)
Klose: major and minor scales
Klose: scales in thirds
This popular study book contains musical, progressive style studies. The Demnitz studies extend to four sharps and four flats in major and minor keys, using basic time signatures, rhythms and articulations.

Hite, David: Forty Progressive Melodies by A.M.R. Barret
Contents:
Barret: 40 Progressive Melodies
Dont: 8 Progressive Exercises
Hite: Scale studies
The Barret melodies are wonderful studies for melodic phrasing. They include an accompaniment for a second clarinet to emphasize the development of rhythmic independence, intonation, and balance. This book can be used with or following the Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1.

LEVEL 2 REPERTOIRE

FOR CLARINET ALONE

Adler, Samuel: Harobed: 7 Studies

FOR Bb CLARINET WITH PIANO

Bach-Handel-Jaeckel: Baroque Suite
Bach, J.C.-Voxman: Minuet and Allegro
Diabelli-Hite: Introduction and Rondo
Dremlyuga-Zakopets: Andantino
Pierne, Gabriel: Piece in G Minor
Paradis-Hite: Sicilienne
Rabaud-Hite: Etude
R.Korsakov-Thurston: The Rose and the Nightingale
Robinson, Stanford: Rondo
Solomon, Edward: Gypsy Song
Stocks-Bonade: Wessex Pastorale
Vadala, Kathleen: Sea Change
Walters, David L.: Episode

SOLO COLLECTION FOR Bb CLARINET WITH PIANO

Bordner, Gerald: Clarinet Solos for the Young Player, Book 2
Contents:

CLARINET DUETS

Barret-Hite: Forty Progressive Melodies
Pleyel-Wienandt: Duos in C, F and D Minor
Voxman, Himie: 65 Progressive Duets

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