Graham Lyons
Useful Clarinet Solos
Graham Lyons
Useful Clarinet Solos
- Instrumentation Clarinet
- Composer Graham Lyons
- Series Useful Music
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Clifton Edition
- Order no. STAIN-C590
Description:
Graham Lyons writes...
"The purpose is to provide clarinet players, who are in their early stages, with pieces they will enjoy working on and playing. Whatever the original source of the piece, my intention has been to turn it into a convincing clarinet piece. Sometimes I have had to arrange and adapt the music quite radically: the great composers unfortunately did not choose to write their most inspired music in the form of short pieces for clarinet and piano!
Converting great music into pieces that sound right in their new context and that suit both the instrument and the player of moderate ability, gives rise to many challenges. In my attempts at fulfilling them, I am certain to have offended some purists. However, I am equally certain that a literal transcription of the composer's notes would in most cases be a travesty of the composer's intentions - just as a literal translation of a poem into another language destroys its essence.
Once a clarinet player can play sustained musical phrases and is familiar with a moderate range of notes, he or she will be able to play the easier pieces in this books. Altogether, Useful Clarinet Solos will provide the average player with two or three years study and playing material. Every piece here has been selected and arranged with extreme care. There is no dead wood.
The Clarinet parts hold the main interest and will make sense to the player by themselves. The notes range from low F sharp to high C, and are in keys with no more than two sharps or flats.
The piano parts, I hope, do more than just accompany. With them I have attemped to create the feeling given by the music in its original context. The parts are mostly simply written, but they do require accurate and sympathetic playing."
"The purpose is to provide clarinet players, who are in their early stages, with pieces they will enjoy working on and playing. Whatever the original source of the piece, my intention has been to turn it into a convincing clarinet piece. Sometimes I have had to arrange and adapt the music quite radically: the great composers unfortunately did not choose to write their most inspired music in the form of short pieces for clarinet and piano!
Converting great music into pieces that sound right in their new context and that suit both the instrument and the player of moderate ability, gives rise to many challenges. In my attempts at fulfilling them, I am certain to have offended some purists. However, I am equally certain that a literal transcription of the composer's notes would in most cases be a travesty of the composer's intentions - just as a literal translation of a poem into another language destroys its essence.
Once a clarinet player can play sustained musical phrases and is familiar with a moderate range of notes, he or she will be able to play the easier pieces in this books. Altogether, Useful Clarinet Solos will provide the average player with two or three years study and playing material. Every piece here has been selected and arranged with extreme care. There is no dead wood.
The Clarinet parts hold the main interest and will make sense to the player by themselves. The notes range from low F sharp to high C, and are in keys with no more than two sharps or flats.
The piano parts, I hope, do more than just accompany. With them I have attemped to create the feeling given by the music in its original context. The parts are mostly simply written, but they do require accurate and sympathetic playing."
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The Londonderry Air - Trad. Irish arr. Graham Lyons
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Rondo from The Moor’s Revenge - Henry Purcell
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Today Nothing Happened - Graham Lyons
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Berceuse from The Dolly Suite - Gabriel Fauré
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Marche Militaire - Franz Schubert
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Ding Dong Merrily on High - Trad. Carol arr. Graham Lyons
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Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev
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The Exile - Graham Lyons
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Johann Sebastian Bach The Final Chorus from The St. Matthew Passion
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Sonatina - Ludwig van Beethoven
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Rêverie - Claude Debussy
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Manufacturer Information:
Clifton Edition
1b Farmhouse Court
HP10 0QU
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
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