As 21st Century oboists, we hear and feel an outcry to broaden our palette of musical styles. “12 Soon-To-Be Famous Studies for Oboe” is our attempt to meet this demand. This book introduces oboists to blues, funk, Latin rhythms, multiphonics, harmonics, glissandi, complex meters and tonalities, and aleatoric improvisation. These pieces are all written to be equally useful on stage and in the teaching studio.
Whether a student is preparing for a public recital performance, a college entrance audition, a solo competition, a state honor ensemble, or their individual oboe lessons, the 21st century has brought the classical music world, sometimes eagerly and sometimes kicking and screaming, into a clamoring desire to produce and hear more diverse music. Whether the diversity comes from the identities of the composers or from their global styles and influences, we hear significant demand from students and teachers alike to broaden our choices of musical experiences. The ubiquity of Franz Wilhelm Ferling’s 48 Famous Studies for Oboe underscores the value in having oboe études be thoroughly performable pieces in their own right. Over the course of being oboe professors for decades, we seek to augment the skills cultivated in Ferling’s volume with a varied collection of living voices writing for oboists at a similar developmental level. “12 Soon-To-Be Famous Studies for Oboe” is our collective attempt to meet this demand with instructionally useful pieces that are also enjoyable in concert settings, both for performers and for listeners alike.
While a truly complete modern skill set is unattainable in a single volume, these pieces collectively develop many skills that are increasingly important in today’s musical world that weren’t yet factors in Germany in 1842. Whereas Ferling’s initial significance came from improved innovations in oboe keywork that enabled facility in all 12 major and minor keys over an increased range, this book addresses the fact that today’s oboist is expected to have at least some idiomatic fluency in a greater number of styles than ever before. In the following pages, you will find examples of blues, funk, Latin dance rhythms, multiphonics, harmonics, glissandi, complex meters and tonalities, and aleatoric improvisation, all in forms that are accessible and developmentally appropriate for motivated high school and college oboists. We hope that these pieces empower oboists to expand their musical comfort zones, develop a versatile skill set, and most importantly, embrace the cultivation of our own individual musical personalities.
- 60 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-955697-21-7
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