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Foundations of Bassoon Intonation by Brigit Fitzgerald Pacher is appropriate for high school through professional bassoon players.

Building a strong foundation of intonation consistency unlocks some of the most fulfilling aspects of making music, enhancing your ability to blend and collaborate with ease. Foundations of Bassoon Intonation begins with a detailed discussion of intonation temperaments and interval adjustments, bassoon-specific information, and common intonation tendencies. This information is then applied to etudes, interval duets, key duets, and excerpt duets. Play-along sound files are included for the duets, making this a unique and comprehensive method. Foundations of Bassoon Intonation will elevate your playing to a truly professional level!

“Filling a gap in pedagogical materials for the bassoon, this book provides numerous duets in all keys, including many standard orchestral excerpts, with QR codes linking to recordings of both parts. Dr. Pacher also offers numerous etudes, again with QR codes to cello drones, that support attentive work on hearing and executing excellent intonation. I will continue to use this book myself and look forward to guiding my students through its thorough and motivating methodology!”  - Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Professor of Bassoon, University of Texas at Austin; Principal Bassoon, ROCO

"Foundations of Bassoon Intonation provides sequential exercises that come with plenty of helpful information and that invite the reader into a new way of thinking about their instrument and their intonation. I believe that any bassoonist can gain a great deal from working through the exercises in this book. In the end, they will be equipped to apply what they’ve learned to any music they play, and to devise their own exercises following the strong foundation laid here. I am very grateful to have this book in our literature!" - Ben Roidl-Ward - Assistant Professor of Bassoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Principal Bassoon, Chicago Sinfonietta and Illinois Symphony

118 pages

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