Odd Meter Etudes

Odd Meter Etudes For All Instruments In Treble Clef by Everett Gates

Intermediate level etudes for the study of time, meter, and rhythm challenges in modern music. Includes 15 articulation studies and 21 “odd meter etudes.” Three excerpts from Handel, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven, which have odd and changing meters, are included. This series of etudes are original and incorporate a number of compositional techniques employed by contemporary composers: modal and contrived scales, twelve-tone organization, retrograde and melodic inversions, less usual formal organization, 3, 5, and 7 bar phrases, etc. Extremes of range have been avoided. Phrases have been ocnstructed with the limited breath control of young students in mind.