The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed. (See Characteristics of the Instrument) Clarinets actually comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument family, with more than two dozen types. The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the soprano ...

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Clarinet - Tone. The clarinet has a distinctive liquid tone, resulting from the shape of the bore, whose characteristics vary between its three registers: the chalumeau (low), clarion or clarino (middle), and altissimo (high). Of all the wind instruments the clarinet has the widest compass, which is showcased in much wind band and orchestral writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over time have enabled the instrument to be very ...

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The contrabass clarinet is the largest common member of the clarinet family. It is a Bb; instrument, although the Eb; contra-alto clarinet is sometimes referred to as the Eb; contrabass clarinet. The contra, as it is sometimes called, sounds two octaves below the "standard" Bb; soprano clarinet, and one octave below the Bb; bass clarinet. While larger clarinets have occasionally been constructed [1]—including the rare EEEb octocontralto, and a single instance of a BBBb octocontrabass, or double contrabass, clarinet (sounding ...

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The contra-alto clarinet is a large, low-sounding musical instrument of the clarinet family. The contra-alto clarinet is pitched in the key of E-flat and is sometimes called the E-flat contrabass clarinet. It is the second-largest member of the clarinet family, larger than the bass clarinet but not as big as the B-flat contrabass clarinet. Like other clarinets, the contra-alto clarinet is a wind instrument that uses a reed to produce sound. The keys of the contra-alto are similar to the keys on smaller clarinets, and are played in the same way. The range of the contra-alto clarinet is fr ...

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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey) is a jazz clarinet player. DeFranco had the bad fortune to begin his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Bands – so many of which were led by clarinet players like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman – were fading in popularity. DeFranco was perhaps the only major jazz clarinet player to adapt to this change, and until the 1980's, he was the only notable jazz musician who played clarinet exclusively. H ...

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The alto clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument usually pitched in the key of E♭, though instruments in F have been made. In size it lies between the soprano clarinet and the bass clarinet, to which it bears a greater resemblance in that it typically has a straight wood or plastic body but a curved neck and bell made of metal. In appearance it strongly resembles the basset horn, but usually differs in three respects: it is pitched in E♭, it lacks an extended lower ra ...

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The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like standard clarinets, it is usually pitched in B flat (meaning it is a transposing instrument where a written C sounds as B flat), but it plays notes an octave below the "normal" B flat clarinet and an octave above the contrabass clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably A, also exist. Bass clarinet - Description. Most modern instruments are straight-bodied (the body most often being made of grenadilla or African Blackwood), with a s ...

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The clarinet started life as a small instrument called the chalumeau. Not much is known about this instrument, but it may have evolved from the recorder. The chalumeau had a similar reed to the modern clarinet, but lacked the register key which extends the range to nearly four octaves, so it had a limited range of about one and a half octaves. It also lacked certain chromatics. Like a recorder, it had eight finger holes, and usually ...

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While the bass clarinet was seldom heard in early jazz compositions, a bass clarinet solo by Omer Simeon can be heard in the 1926 recording "Someday Sweetheart" by Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers. Harry Carney occasionally played bass clarinet in some of Duke Ellington's arrangements, beginning in the late 1930s. Eric Dolphy (1928-1964) was the first major jazz soloist on the instrument, and established much of ...

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A clarinet concerto is a concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Clarinet concerto - Famous clarinet concertos. Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (1948) and Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (1974) Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto (1996) Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto (1948) Bernhard Henrik Crusell's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (date unknown), Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (1808), Clarinet Concerto No. 3 (1807) ([1]) Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto (1949) Wol ...

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A clarinet sonata is a sonata for the clarinet, often with piano accompaniment. Clarinet Sonata - Famous Clarinet Sonatas. This list is approximately in chronological order. Max Reger's Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (both 1900) and Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909) Arnold Bax's Clarinet Sonata (1934) Paul Hindemith's Clarinet Sonata (1939) Leonard Bernstein's Clarinet Sonata (1942) Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Sonata No. 1 a ...

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The chalumeau is a wind instrument believed to have been invented in the late 17th century by Johann Christoph Denner, and the immediate ancestor of the clarinet. It represents the link between the recorder and the clarinet, and is essentially a cylindrical bore recorder with the mouthpiece of a clarinet. Like the recorder, the instrument was built in families, from bass to sopranino. The chalumeau has a large repertoire in 18th century orchestral and chamber music. As the instrument developed through the 18th century, the terms chalumeau and clarinet were used interc ...

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The Albert system was the system of clarinet keywork developed by Albert. It is still on clarinets used for Albanian folk music (as well as other eastern European countries. The reasons for this is that faster playing is possible with the system as a result of the scales played in such music. The system is also used among jazz groups, particularly in New Orleans, USA. Category: Clarinets Other related archivesAlbanian, Albert, Clarinets, New Orle

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Anton Stadler (1753 - 1812) was a clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto. He was reputed to have a beautiful tone, with exceptional mastery of the low register of the clarinet and basset horn playing. A noted virtuoso, he played second to his brother Johann in the Vienna Court Orchestra. It was possibly this specialism in second clarinet along with the basset horn that led to his collaboration with Theodore Lotz, a clar ...

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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey) is a jazz clarinet player. DeFranco had the bad fortune to begin his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Bands – so many of which were led by clarinet players like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman – were fading in popularity. DeFranco was perhaps the only major jazz clarinet player to adapt to this change, and until the 1980's, he was the only notable jazz musician who played clarinet exclusively. H ...

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The basset horn is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the mouthpiece rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle); and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument in B flat (meaning a written C sounds as a B flat), the basset horn is typically in F and has additional keys for an extended range down to F at the bottom of the bass clef. Its timbre is similar ...

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Alfred Uhl was an Austrian composer, living from 1909 to 1993 who wrote extensively for clarinet with educational material and works that are still common repetoire today. Most famous educations pieces are the two volumes of 48 Studies. Studying at the Vienna State Academy of Music, he later taught at the same institution. One major work is his Divertimento for Three Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, which is one of the most performed works for the medium. Written in 1942 for clarinettists from the Vienna Philharmonic, it is a 3 movement work that, structured similarly to a conventional ...

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Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast-slow-fast form: Allegro Adagio Rondo: Allegro The concerto is frequently described as 'autumnal' due to the lyrical Adagio and the emotive passages in minor keys in the outer movements. It was also one of Mozart's final completed works (he died in the December following its completion). The concerto is notable for its delicate ...

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The Boehm System is a system of fingerings, created by inventor and flautist Theobald Boehm in the 1830s which was originally used on the flute and then on a variety of woodwind instruments, including the clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone. It replaces the older Albert system, and is known predominantly for simplifying the progression of fingerings as one moves up and down the scale. The idea is that one should be able to start at the bottom of the scale by putting all keys down, then move up the major scale one note at a time by s ...

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