Article: Pedagogy of Master Clarinet and Saxophone Teacher, Joe Allard: A Panel Discussion

This is an edited transcription of a panel discussion held at the International Clarinet Association\u27s ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri about the pedagogy of clarinet/saxophone master teacher, Joe Allard. I participated in the panel, along with another former student of Joe Allard, as well as with an author of a dissertation written about Allard

Buddy DeFranco, The Standard Bearer

Interview with Buddy DeFranco, master jazz clarinetist

Practicar / Practicing Tips

A number of approaches to practicing technical passages that utilize varied rhythms, meters, and poly rhythms. Originally a blog post on Clariperu website in Spanish, English translation appears here

Bibliography

Bibliography of publications and performances by John M. Cipolla

Book Reviews

Book reviews by John Cipolla of: Mandat, Eric. Chips Off the Ol\u27 Block for Solo Bass Clarinet Rossini, Gioachino & Carlos Pässler. Divertimento for Clarinet & Piano del Aguila, Miguel. Pacific Serenade, Op. 59 for Clarinet & String Quartet Wilson, Jeffrey. Colour Studies for Clarine

Projective Bundle Adjustment from Arbitrary Initialization Using the Variable Projection Method

Bundle adjustment is used in structure-from-motion pipelines as final refinement stage requiring a sufficiently good initialization to reach a useful local mininum. Starting from an arbitrary initialization almost always gets trapped in a poor minimum. In this work we aim to obtain an initialization-free approach which returns global minima from a large proportion of purely random starting points. Our key inspiration lies in the success of the Variable Projection (VarPro) method for affine factorization problems, which have close to 100% chance of reaching a global minimum from random initialization. We find empirically that this desirable behaviour does not directly carry over to the projective case, and we consequently design and evaluate strategies to overcome this limitation. Also, by unifying the affine and the projective camera settings, we obtain numerically better conditioned reformulations of original bundle adjustment algorithms

Article: Phrasing...Speaking in Musical Sentences.Blue Grass News, official Journal of the KY Music Educators Association

Tips on the necessary skills for musicians to learn to play convincing phrases

A Hybrid Curriculum of Private and Group Lessons for College Clarinet & Saxophone Studio Instruction

This model of teaching presents a curriculum that blends traditional one-on-one private college studio instruction on the clarinet and saxophone with small group lessons. Each student receives a weekly forty-minute private lesson and a twenty-minute group lesson. This hybrid model of teaching is an approach that, for the administrator, (1) increases student credit hour production because more students can be taught in fewer hours (2) addresses the increasing state pressure to reduce degree credit hours by including chamber music in the studio curriculum (3) supports retention efforts by helping freshmen acclimate to college through camaraderie developed in groups. And for the student and teacher, (1) helps align some of the practical skills music education students are taught in their lessons with what they will need as music educators in a classroom (2) helps bridge the performance deficiency gap of students entering college by streamlining work on these deficiencies in a group setting (3) fosters healthy competition among the students in the studio. The group lessons vary in content, depending on the needs of the particular students. Groups contain two to four students. The content of instruction in the group lessons is a mixture of homogeneous chamber music along with technical exercises (tone and scale exercises, articulation, harmonizing melodies, etc.). The presentation includes methods, suggested materials and a sample course calendar. Flexibility is stressed throughout the curriculum to address the individual needs of each student