Studies for Playing Avant-Garde Music (Studien zum Spielen Neuer Musik) for Clarinet by Beate Zelinsky and David Smeyers. Breitkopf, 1996, 48+ pages. The book provides detailed instruction in English and German for playing 11 works for clarinet which use extended technique. Works by Edison Denissow, Georg Kröll, Iannis Xenakis, and 8 more composers are included. Full clarinet parts are included and for the Kröll work, multiphonic fingerings for both the Boehm and German system clarinets. There is also a bibliography and a list of recommended compositions. (C0361)