soprano clarinet
A soprano clarinet is a clarinet that is higher in register than the basset horn or alto clarinet. The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the Bflat clarinet, which is by far the most common type. The term soprano also applies to the clarinets in A and C, and even the low G clarinet—rare in Western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey—which sounds a whole tone lower than the A. Some writers reserve a separate category of sopranino clarinets for the Eflat and D clarinets, while some regarded them as soprano clarinets.
Also recorded as A clarinet (soprano) · B♭ clarinet (soprano) · B-flat clarinet (soprano) · C clarinet (soprano)
soprano clarinet
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A soprano clarinet is a clarinet that is higher in register than the basset horn or alto clarinet. The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the Bflat clarinet, which is by far the most common type. The term soprano also applies to the clarinets in A and C, and even the low G clarinet—rare in Western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey—which sounds a whole tone lower than the A. Some writers reserve a separate category of sopranino clarinets for the Eflat and D clarinets, while some regarded them as soprano clarinets.
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All have a written range from the E below middle C to about the C three octaves above middle C, with the sounding pitches determined by the particular instrument's transposition. Orchestral composers largely write for soprano clarinets in B and A. Clarinets in C were used likewise from the Classical era until about 1910. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also called for clarinets in Bnatural when writing in keys with many sharps (e.g. the E major arias in Idomeneo and Così fan tutte), but this became obsolete far sooner. There have also been soprano clarinets in C, A, and Bflat with curved barrels and bells marketed under the names Saxonette, Claribel, and Clariphon. Shackleton lists also obsolete "sopranino" clarinets in (high) G, F, and E, and soprano clarinets in Bnatural and Aflat.
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• Name — Soprano clarinet • Background — woodwind • Classification — *Wind • Woodwind • Single-reed • Related — *Piccolo clarinet • Basset clarinet • Clarinet d'amore • Basset horn • Alto clarinet • Bass clarinet • Musicians — See list of clarinetists
Contemporary works for clarinet in C
Contemporary works for clarinet in C
• Richard Barrett: knospend-gespaltener for solo clarinet in C • James Erber: Strange Moments of Intimacy for solo clarinet in C
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