Resources
Free material for clarinetists.
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The Clarinetist’s Octatonic Workbook
A practice resource built on the octatonic collections—scales, thirds, triads, fourths, tritones, mixed chords, dexterity passages, patterns, and études. The material I wished I’d had as a student.
Free. 28 pages, PDF.
From the Theory Desk
Research & Writing
Alongside the catalog, Matthew’s graduate research at Bowling Green centered on making analysis useful to performers.
- Sonata Form Motivic Obsession, Harmonic Obscurity and Sonata Obfuscations in Spohr’s Op. 31 Grand Nonet—why this 1813 chamber gem deserves a closer look. Email for a copy.
- Post-Tonal Pedagogy The Advancing Clarinetist’s Post-Tonal Primer—an analysis and teaching framework built on Elisabeth Lutyens’s Five Little Pieces. The Octatonic Workbook above grew out of this project.
- Music & Meaning Ragtime: Waltzes and Foils for a Foiled American Dream—a semiotic reading of the 1998 musical’s waltz topics. Email for a copy.