4.10 Masterclasses and Online Resources
Essential Question: What does effective woodwind teaching look like in practice?
Woodwind Masterclasses
Flute
- Jean-Pierre Rampal on interpreting the Fauré Fantasy
- Demarre McGill on articulation, expression
- Emmanuel Pahud on support, starting/ending a note, use of air
- Felix Renggli on Borne's Fantaisie Brillante sur Carmen
Oboe
- Albrecht Mayer on le Tombeau de Couperin — character, rhythm, phrasing
- Maurice Bourgue on Saint-Saëns Sonata, Andantino — sound, precision
- Diana Doherty on Brahms Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt — harmonic approach
Clarinet
- Anthony McGill on sound production
- Ricardo Morales on smooth finger action, Baermann Etude #18
- Yehuda Gilad on air in Brahms' Sonata No. 1 in F minor
- Richard Stolzman working with high school students
Saxophone
- Sherman Irby on tone development, long tones, soft playing (ca. 9:30–14:00)
- Claude Delangle (in French) — listen from ca. 15:00 for comments leading into student playing an excerpt, then Delangle playing. What do you learn from this, even if you don't speak French?
- London Saxophone School — tips on sax embouchure and common mistakes
Bassoon
- Sophie Dervaux on Ravel's Boléro — rhythm, dance, legato sound
- Sergio Azzolini on articulation
- Simon van Holen on Mozart K. 191 — sound production, phrasing
- Kristin Wolfe Jensen — producing vibrato on bassoon
- Ole Kristian Dahl — warm-up routine
Online Resources
General Woodwind Topics
- Bret Pimentel's Woodwind Blog
- Bret Pimentel's Woodwind Fingering Diagram Builder
- Wikipedia — Woodwind Bores (conical vs. cylindrical)
Flute
- Flutist.com
- Band Directors Talk Shop — balance and position
- Band Directors Talk Shop — embouchure
- Collins Freedom to Teach (UK) — beginning flute technique
- Vienna Symphonic Library — notation, range, audio samples
- Yamaha — "How to" videos and diagrams for beginners
- Orchestral Excerpts for Flute
- Bulletproof Musician — Keith Underwood on breathing
Oboe
- International Double Reed Society — oboe fingerings
- Jacqueline Leclair — contemporary techniques (circular breathing, fluttertongue)
- Oboe Files — tuning and reed-alone exercises for beginners
- Oboe for Everyone — videos and teaching materials for beginners
- Oboehelp — basic set-up, reeds, and advanced techniques
- Vienna Symphonic Library — history, notation, range, symphonic audio samples
- WikiHow — assembly, embouchure, playing position
- Orchestral Excerpts for Oboe
Clarinet
- International Clarinet Association
- Chris Jones — embouchure instructions with pictures
- UNT — fundamentals of sound production (PDF)
- Vienna Symphonic Library
- Yamaha — "How to" videos and diagrams for beginners
- Orchestral Excerpts for Clarinet
Saxophone
- Frederick Hemke's Teacher's Guide to Saxophone (PDF)
- Matt Langley Saxophone Resources Blog
- North American Saxophone Alliance
- International Saxophone Academy
Bassoon
- International Double Reed Society — bassoon fingerings
- Music and the Bassoon (Kristin Wolfe Jensen) — comprehensive instructional video series
- David Wells — fingering charts (beginner through advanced)
- Vienna Symphonic Library — history, notation, range, symphonic audio samples
- WikiHow — set-up and position
- The Orchestral Bassoon — scores and recordings
- Teaching Beginning Bassoon (Jen Auerbach, Texas Bandmasters Association)