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Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player (Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician) Paperback – October 3, 2013

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Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking a quick set of pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music. Easy to use and intended for the advanced musician, contributions to the Music Secrets series fill a niche for those who have moved beyond what beginners and intermediate practitioners need.

In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe’s reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges. Leclair draws on her experience as a performer and instructor, offering practical tips and sometimes revolutionary ideas for rethinking oboe pedagogy.

Leclair also looks at performance strategies in the areas of equipment maintenance and management, physical health, and performance technique. Her secrets focus on such matters as how to optimize practice sessions, build endurance, improve use of the body when playing, work with reeds, and apply extended techniques. Oboe Secrets provides oboists and English horn players a quick and efficient path to significant improvement—both technically and musically—in their playing. It is the perfect resource for advanced high school oboists, professional performers, music instructors, and avid amateur musicians.

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This series sets forth a quick set of pointers to improve musicians' work as performers. Easy to use and intended for the advanced musician so the book states, these books 'fill a niche for those who have moved beyond what beginners and intermediate practitioners need'. This excellent book does it exactly what it says on the back cover. ... Oboe Secrets would be of use to oboists of almost any level. . . . For the student or amateur it points the way to future development of playing, and better technique; it would be a most useful resource for teachers. For a professional such as myself I found it thought-provoking and very rewarding to read, encouraging us to re-evaluate what we do, how we do it and why. ... Oboe Secrets clearly represents a great deal of work in assembling the ideas, describing things clearly and setting them out in a logical and highly readable way, with sensible use of illustrations. May of the 'secrets' would be of use to players of other instruments too. Jacqueline Leclair has done a very fine piece of work for us all, and I highly commend it.
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Leclair's descriptions and ideas of conquering them should be refreshing and often liberating. Being reminded of a 'lost technique' is quite helpful, and likewise reading solutions similar to your own can be reassuring. The resource list at the end of the book is extremely helpful in that Leclair has included a brief synopsis for each book listed. The variety of texts and suggested recordings lends insight into Leclair's reading tastes and habits. It is clear that she is committed to working towards healthy playing habits, enhancing and encouraging creativity, and opening her mind and body to discovery and invention. Oboe Secrets is written in clear, easy to comprehend language, should be a staple in the oboists' and English hornists' libraries, and I recommend it for students, teachers, amateurs and professionals alike. (The Double Reed)

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Jacqueline Leclair is a professor of oboe at McGill University and regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world. The New York Times has hailed her performances as “astonishing” and the New Yorker has called her work “lively” and “wonderful.”

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press (October 3, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 166 pages
ISBN-10 : 0810886200
ISBN-13 : 978-0810886209
Item Weight : 12.9 ounces
Dimensions : 7.07 x 0.43 x 10.01 inches

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stephen caplan

Who knew oboe players could be so sane?

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2014

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Clear and practical advice is found throughout this book. Advice about oboe specific things like reed making, and using the half-whole key; but also good ideas about nurturing your inner musician through whole body awareness, developing a sophisticated rhythmic sense, and improving practice strategies. I loved her ideas about reed making, which are summed up in the following quote: "A professional, coolheaded approach to reed making will improve your success and well-being. People emotionally close to you will be grateful." I also felt her discussions of "avant-garde" techniques (flutter tonguing, double tonguing, glissando) were quite unique and enlightening. Jacqueline Leclair's "secrets" are out, and the oboe world will be better because of them.

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Swedish grandma

Good information

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2016

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This contains a lot of good suggestions, but a lot of this information is pure intuition.

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Donald Fischer

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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016

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Great book for any musician, not just oboe players.

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Lucinda S Mermin

Oboe playing with love

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2013

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As the subtitle indicates, 75 precise, helpful and fun steps to to demystifying oboe playing. Opening the book to any chapter, I immediately felt lighter and freer in my playing and reed making. Writing in the clearest of prose, this book should be a must
for any serious oboist.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2017

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Perfect condition

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oboetofu

Open Secrets

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014

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I am an advanced oboist, with several decades of experience studying and playing. I found the book disappointing for the following reasons:
1. All but a few of the "secrets" are common-sense, basic principles that an ambitious student who has studied oboe for two years would have learned from an intelligent teacher, or discovered for herself. What is lacking is something new, something 21st century, unique, inspiring, personal, and PRACTICAL! I don't care about secrets, let the NSA handle them.
2. Most of the information given here has already been published, in books and articles by Jay Light, Evelyn Rothwell, Robert Sprenkle, Martin Schuring, Libby van Cleve, Nora Post, Stephan Caplan, and others. Even the classic text by Louis Bleuzet.
3. Leclair is a specialist in "contemporary music," but she hardly delves into the many problems presented by oboe music written from the 1960s to the present. "Advanced students" should have learned double tonguing, glissandi and flutter tonguing in the 3rd or 4th year of study, unless they intend to remain glued to the music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Few can afford to do that.
4. Leclair's gloating over the fact she never agonized over reeds is, to me, insultingly naive. The better you play, the more you demand from reeds. It's remarkable that she does not give space to the use of the micrometer for making reeds, and for obtaining the kind of standardization she idealizes. There is no better, faster and more informative way to gauge what works for you, what is best for high and low notes, and for different sonic approaches, and thus different works of music, than to experiment with the micrometer. Why reeds never tormented Leclair is indeed a great secret, which, alas, is not revealed here in detail.
5. Leclair barely mentions the oboe repertory. In a book for advanced students, one would expect to see a list of music for oboe that sets out parameters of progress in technique, advising the student how to proceed, from Britten to Berio, Wuorinen, Wolpe, Yun and beyond. I've collected 400 works for solo oboe, 1950s--present. If Leclair doesn't make them better known, who will?

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Giuseppe

Non può mancare nella biblioteca degli oboisti

Reviewed in Italy on December 1, 2017

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Lo consiglio agli oboisti che vogliono aggiungere qualcosa alle loro performances. Il testo è organizzato in maniera da essere letto bene.

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