Shawnee Press Pocket Size Sonata No. 2
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Essential Information About This Collection
Essential Information About This Collection
- Clarinet and piano duo: a composition designed for the dialogue between the clarinet's melody and the piano accompaniment, ideal for developing listening skills and balance.
- Alec Templeton's signature: a distinctive musical universe, with particular attention to the melodic line, phrasing, and harmonic colors.
- Practical format: 12 pages, easy to integrate into a lesson program, an audition, or a small chamber music concert.
- Shawnee Press edition: a collection from a recognized publisher, tailored to the needs of clarinetists seeking repertoire with piano.
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Summary of This Collection
Written for clarinet and piano, this Alec Templeton collection emphasizes musicality and ensemble precision. The clarinet plays an expressive role, encouraging careful attention to breathing, attack quality, and sound continuity, while the piano provides essential rhythmic and harmonic support to the construction of the musical discourse. It is a relevant resource for developing intonation, legato flexibility, and articulation within a chamber music context.
Thanks to its concise format, the score is suitable both for regular practice and performance preparation. It promotes a comprehensive approach: setup, coordination, dynamics, and timbral exploration. In rehearsal, the duo can refine balances (clarinet projection, piano dynamics, shared breathing) and work on style with genuine musical rigor. An interesting choice to enrich a clarinet and piano sheet music repertoire with a work published in 1959, featuring a strong character.
Technical specifications
| Musical Genre | Classical | Publication | Sheet music |
| Composer | Alec Templeton | Pages | 12 |
| Instrumentation | Clarinet and Piano | Year of publication | 1959 |
| Collection | Shawnee Press | ||
Questions frequently asked
What instrumentation is intended for this sonata?
The score is written for clarinet and piano, featuring an expressive clarinet part supported by the piano in rhythmic and harmonic terms.
How many pages does Pocket Size Sonata No. 2 contain?
The collection consists of 12 pages.
Does this clarinet sheet music work on legato and articulation?
The writing emphasizes breathing, attack quality, and sound continuity. The work on intonation, legato flexibility, and articulation takes place within the duo with piano. Dynamics and ensemble coordination are also part of the rehearsal focus.
Who composed this sonata for clarinet and piano?
This classical work was composed by Alec Templeton and published in 1959 in the Shawnee Press collection.
What ensemble work does this score allow?
The 12 pages allow refining the balance between the clarinet’s projection and the piano’s dynamics, as well as the duo’s shared breathing.



