Clarinet

instruments that belong in the woodwind family include flutes, clarinets, sometimes saxophones, double reed instruments, and so on. The clarinet is arguably one of the most common woodwind instruments played by musicians in North America as it often has parts in lots of repertoire performed by many North American and European ensembles. It has been used as a solo instrument many times, and some of the most well – known compositions for solo clarinet include the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet, etc. as well as a solo feature at the beginning of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Another work for clarinet that is not quite as world…

The Clarinet This paper was written to illustrate for you the many facets of the clarinet. The clarinet is a woodwind instrument played with a single reed. “The origins of the clarinet date back about three thousand years to ancient Egypt, where reeds growing along the Nile were crafted into instruments. Around the year 1700, Nuremburg craftsman Johann Christoph Denner developed the clarinet.” (Films Media Group, Web.) Denner's early clarinets looked very similar to what we know today as the…

Johann Christoph Denner created the clarinet soon after 1698 (Barrett, G. 1999) (Adullah, M et al. 2015). The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a single reed. A clarinet has many different keys, and each of them helps produce a different note. “The keys were of brass, sometimes of silver and the springs were of brass.” (Barrett, G. 1999). It is an instrument that is somewhat quiet compared to others, but it can be played loudly if the player desires. “While almost every other woodwind…

band, piece that has been played and enjoyed by advanced high school and university bands. The scoring is dense and somewhat atypical, however. Jenkins includes a sting bass, a cello, three baritone parts, three flute parts, and four clarinet and trombone parts. Jenkins includes the string bass part because is important to the texture of the piece. The tuba cues, like all the cues in the piece, are “safety doublings” and “should be played only in the absence of the instrument shown”. The…

The first song was called Joy Ride. It started of very strong with crashing cymbals and a loud drum. It was very powerful and had really good harmony all together. The second song was called Regrets and Resolutions. It started off very peaceful and quiet with flutes and clarinets. Then the horns and xylophone were added in. The flute soloist would play one song and the rest of the instruments were playing a different one, it actually sounded really cool. At one point it all the sudden got really…

"The only thing keeping you from your goal is the *bleep* story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.” I had been playing the clarinet since fifth grade. I thought I was a very proficient musician and I was the best clarinetist ever. My confidence in my playing was very high. One can say “I was arrogant when it came to my instrument”. My sophomore year a potential new band director was visiting my school. On the day he arrived, my curiosity had the best of me and I hastened…

The Educator’s Guide to the Clarinet by Thomas Ridenour This is a very good pedagogy book. The first six chapters involve various playing techniques, and are filled with drawings, exercises, descriptions and methods that will help both the teacher and student understand how each playing technique works. The last half of the book deals with equipment, and gives the teacher the objective knowledge about clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds and accessories. That way the teacher can select the best and…

the piano soloist. The instruments called for in this piece of music are two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, three trombones (two tenor, one bass), timpani, solo piano, and strings. MOVEMENT 1 EXPOSITION 1:04—2:00 French horns are forte for three notes, then what sounds like trombones join in along with the rest of the orchestra and the soloist Kissin on the piano. For the first measure the tempo is dramatic in tone, with the French…

without variations from the beginning to the Finale, structured in two bars, initially played only by drums, and it is used as introduction for two bars every time one of the themes come in. Some instruments double the key of the piece just by octaves, like the Celesta, playing the melodies two or three octaves above; other using diatonic chords (like Piccolo) Ravel escape from the rigid melodic scheme only in the Finale, where the second theme change in E major, to come back to C major after 8…

Introduction to Opera Compare the characters of Carmen and Micaëla in Carmen. What are the differences between them, how is this expressed in the music, and do you think the outcome is inevitable? Introduction Bizet's Carmen is an Opera in four acts, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March with a plot based on the 1845 novella by Mérimée. Today it stands as one of the most popular french operas of all time.The Opera explores the relationship between the enchanting Carmen and…