Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed woodwind instrument with a flexible tone and a wide expressive range. It entered the orchestra during the 18th century and became important in chamber music, concertos, military bands, and jazz. Its repertoire stretches from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto to swing-era players such as Benny Goodman and modern experiments with instruments like the sitar.

7 articles related to Clarinet:

SAXOPHONE

Kadri Gopalnath: nadaswaram musician who canonized the Сarnatic saxophone

Kadri Gopalnath was a distinguished South Indian musician who introduced the saxophone into the classical repertoire and...
PIANO

Fantasiestucke: three famous piano opuses by Robert Schumann

The influential German composer Robert Schumann repeatedly used the title Fantasiestüske as a thematic description of a...
SITAR

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
Clarinet

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...
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...
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...
ORCHESTRA

Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the...