A methodological study for the structure in the scales of tonal and makam music containing basic doctrins for the g and b flat clarinet

The clarinet, which is a woodwind instrument, is one of the widely used instruments not only in our country but also in the world. It has an important place basically in Classical Western Music and also Turkish Classical Music and Local Folk Music which are two fields of Traditional Turkish Music. Although the B flat clarinet is rather used in Classical Western Music, generally the G clarinet is preferred in Traditional Turkish Music. Our study is based on clarinet's metodology of education in Turkey and espacially the basic education of students in conservatoires teaching Turkish Music. In our thesis titled 'A methodological study for the structure in the scales of tonal and makam music, containing basic doctrins for the G and B flat clarinet' initially information, drawings and other illustrations about clarinet's systems and blowing techniques are presented in details. Topic descriptions in the content are supported with tables and photographs. The exercises and etudes sequentially ordered from easy to more difficult are also played by us as 236 tracks in a studio environment and included in the study. The study contains inroduction in the first part, general informations about the clarinet in the second part, teaching of notes on the G and B flat clarinets and shared practices in the third part, practices with clarinet related to basic (fundemental) makam in Turkish Music in the fourth part, and etudes for the G and B flat clarinets in the fifth part. In this respect, a metodological study for the structure in the scales of tonal and makam music, containing basic doctrins fort he G and B flat clarinet is presented. We think an important step is taken in order to fill in the gap that occured because of the lack of extensive study conducted before, and also because the education of the G and B flat clarinets were not given simultaneously.