Research

Mind the Gap: Crossing the Clarinet Break Demystified

Dr. Doyle provides tips and tricks for educators to help their students learn to cross the register change smoothly on via the Vandoren WAVE.

 

Performance Anxiety: Not Just for Students

In this opinion piece for The Clarinet (Online), Dr. Doyle shares her thoughts on performance anxiety’s prevalence amongst musicians, including professionals, as well as some tips for mitigating its effects.

 

Breaking the Glass Clarinet Article

In this article, published in The Clarinet magazine, Alexandra Doyle summarizes her findings from interviews with Joan Tower and Libby Larsen on their pieces for clarinet and their experiences as women composers in the United States.

 

Breaking the Glass Clarinet Recital

In this lecture recital, Alexandra Doyle presents findings from interviews with Joan Tower and Libby Larsen, with whom she discussed their experiences as women composers, their opinions on the clarinet, and the following works:

Joan Tower – Fantasy, those harbor lights. . . ; Wings; Libby Larsen – Song Without Words; Dancing Solo

 

The Operatic Bass Clarinet

This multimedia resource will help you and your students better understand the major bass clarinet excerpts from the opera repertoire, including transposed parts.

 

At the Crossroads of Music and Nationalism

Alexandra Doyle reviews Rachel Moore’s Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris During the First World War, from Volume 35 of the Music Research Forum.