Instrumentation

• Clarinet in Bb

Moscow-born Simon Bellison, known in many parts of the world as a clarinet virtuoso, teacher, and arranger, revised the Lazarus method for clarinet. This is the second of three books.

General Information

Different Pitched Clarinets

Parts of the Instrument and how to hold it

Embouchure, Sound, Wind

Tonguing, The Lips

The Reed, Mouthpiece

Types of Clarinets

Advice to the Student

Transposition

Table of Trills for Albert System Clarinet

Special Notice of the Boehm System Clarinet

First Lessons

Rhythm, Syncopation, Pointed Notes

Triplets, Five Easy Duets

Staccato, Emphasis

10 Little Progressive Duets

On the Emphasis (Portamento)

Plain Sounds (Seconds to Octaves)

12 Lessons to learn time

Practical Studies on the Lower Notes

50 Progressive Duets for Two Clarinets by J. Kuffner

Major Scales

Minor Scales

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (J. Bland)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Negro Spiritual)

20 Easy Little Tunes

15 Little Operatic Melodies from Anne Bloena and La Gazza Ladra

20 Easy and Progressive Duets

8 Fantasias

Examples of Passages impossible on the ordinary Clarinet

12 Exercises and Studies for Boehm Clarinet

Tables of Trills and Shakes for the Boehm Clarinet and their fingerings

Exercises on Chords

15 Studiesin the Medium Register

Air with Variations from Donizetti’s Elisire D’Amore