These are the first steps of clarinet studying to be rather labour-intensive for little ones. Isn't it hard to train breath, holding body and head, keeping up with hands, fingers and tongue, taking care of rhythm and pitch. However, most of educational editions represent too impetuous methods of studying, for there may hardly be created smart music of two or five sounds. Therefore I arranged classics so as to make a teacher play almost everything, while a pupil's part is played simultaneously as a counterpoint on two or more sounds. It would be useful for a pupil to perform independently his own part, stamping pulse with foot before playing ensemble.
The represented collection is formed of traditional songs, however, the word ''traditional'' is not indicated in titles. Here you may also meet rarely performed early music, so as the classics of the 18th-20th centuries.

Elena Turkina

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PERSIAN CHORUS. From the opera ''Ruslan and Ludmila'' by M. Glinka
SLEEP, MY BABY. German song
NHORUS. From the opera ''Mermaid'' by A. Dargomyzhsky
GERMAN DANCE. L. van Beethoven
AT THE GATES, THE GATES. Russian song. Arranged by P. Tchaikovsky
MINUET. From the Symphony? 104. J. Haydn
BEASTS OF AFRICA. Danish song
LÄNDLER. F. Schubert
DISTANT PAST. P. Tchaikovsky
TENDER VOICE. V. Gavrilin
MINUET. W. A. Mozart
SONGS OF OARSMEN. Congolesion song. Arranged by Sibirsky
BEAR'S SONG. I. Stravinsky
AS THE GIRLS WERE SOWING. Russian song
TWO LITHUANIAN SONGS
1. TWO CLOVERS AND THREE GOLDFINCHES
2. I LIVED AT MY MOTHER
BOURRÉE. J. S. Bach
SHEPHERD. Gagausian Song. Arranged by N. Kios
HORSE. Buryat folk song. Arranged by V. Nagovitsyn
JOHN, COME TO ME. Theme and variation. W. Byrd
LITTLE APPLE TREE. Eastern-Slovakian song. Arranged by D. Kardosh
SONG. J. Regnart
PENZODALIS. Greek song-dance. Arranged by D. Shostakovich
O WALY, WALY. B. Britten
MINIATUR