List of Recommended
Books for Doublers


Recommended etude and technique books for doublers:

 

Clarinet-

Composer/editor

Title

comments

Publisher

Avrahm Galper

Upbeat Scales and Arpeggios

Great and unusual scale book

 Mharva

Larry Guy

Intonation Training for Clarinetists

Much of this applies to sax, too

Rivernote Press

Reginald Kell

17 Staccato Studies

 

International

Hyacinthe Klose

Celebrated Method for the Clarinet

The big book…

Carl Fischer

Oliver Nelson

Patterns for Improvisation- 

Excellent for technique!

Aebersold

Phillip Rehfeldt

New Directions for Clarinet

Best x-techniques book I have found

U. of California

Carl Rose

40 Studies for Clarinet

The standard book

International

Charles Stier

Clarinet Reeds

applies to sax, too

Halcyon

 

Flute-

Composer/editor

Title

comments

Publisher

Robert Cavally

Melodious and Progressive Studies

2 volumes

Southern

Hiroshi Koizumi

Technique for Contemporary Flute Music: for Players and Composers

The best book of its kind that I have found.

Author

(Japan)

Gilliam & McCaskill

Indispensible Scales, Exercises, and Etudes

A good mix for the doubler

Mel Bay

Marcel Moyse

De la Sonorite

All about tone

Leduc

Oliver Nelson

Patterns for Improvisation- 

Great for technique!

Aebersold

 

Bassoon-

Composer/editor

Title

comments

Publisher

Lewis Hugh Cooper & Howard Toplansky

Essentials of Bassoon Technique

The bassoon fingering chart-
370 pgs long!

Toplansky

Julius Weissenborn

Method for Bassoon

The original, and still the best.

Cundy-Bettony

 


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