Playing Woodwind Instruments: A Guide for Teachers, Performers, and Composers

Versatile, easy-to-use and comprehensive! This outstanding new guide draws together the particulars of playing modern woodwind instruments. Its useful format is indispensable for several levels of playing experience. Thorough coverage of embouchures, concepts of blowing, tone, fingerings, reed making, methodology for practicing, and performing furnishes musicians (including woodwind doublers) with the essential skills for perfecting their playing and performing ability. Detailed illustrations, fingering charts, and musical examples assist flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone players in mastering the important concepts discussed in the text. This guide will serve as a valuable, ongoing resource throughout one s musical career.