12 Modern Etudes for solo clarinet by James Rae. Universal Edition, 1999, SS, 26 pages. This book is dedicated to the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. These etudes are suitable for advance high school and early college clarinetists. The introduction states that they were composed to develop "positive playing" at an advanced level. They incorporate many elements of modern music such as atonality, serialism, minimalism and jazz. They may be performed individually or grouped together to form suites of three or more movements. (C1741)