Clarinet

The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a cylindrical bore and a flared bell. It is part of the largest woodwind family and comes in various sizes and pitches. The clarinet was invented by Johann Christoph Denner in the late 17th century by adding a register key to the chalumeau. The clarinet is widely used in classical music, military bands, klezmer, jazz, and other genres. The word "clarinet" may have originated from the French "clarinette," which is related to the Latin root "clarus" meaning "clear."

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  PIANO

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  The influential German composer Robert Schumann repeatedly used the title Fantasiestüske as a thematic description of a...
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  1960s clarinet & sitar duo pioneered an ambient genre with the album for spiritual practices

  Even though the term ambient as a music genre was coined by Brian Eno only in the 1970s, musical experiments of this... 1 comment
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  National holiday as a birthday gift for Denmark's biggest composer

  Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931) was one of the major symphonists of the postromantic epoch and Denmark's most eminent...
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  SAXOPHONE

  Nelson's time in the Marines inspired his future composer career

  Oliver Edward Nelson (1932–1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He is best remembered for...
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  WIND ENSEMBLE

  Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

  The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

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