How would a clarinetist go about searching for a piece from the Medieval to the very end of the Baroque period? Well, that clarinetist should first realize that the repertoire from this timeframe is incredibly difficult to find on the internet. Not only that, the clarinet did not come into existence until around the 1700s, which would give it a mere fifty years in order to develop any sort of solo literature. So, how would one go about looking for early music to perform? Researching the predecessors of the clarinet would be the first step. From the Middle Ages to the Baroque, an instrument called the albogue or alboka was prominent around the Basque region in the western Pyrenees, a region between France and Spain. This instrument is a wind instrument being made of a wooden tube with a mouth piece and bell made from animal horn with uses a single reed to produce the sound. From the Baroque to around 1700, the chalumeau began to come to light and was the instrument that leads to the creation of the clarinet. The chalumeau is also a single-reed instrument. A cylindrical body with a total of eight tone holes, seven on the front of the instrument, and one on the back called the speaker key. The speaker key is the modern day equivalent of the register key on the clarinet. The chalumeau began to appear in music during the 1630s, originating in France and would soon spread into Germany by the latter half of the Baroque. The chalumeau did have a weakness however, being that due to the positions of the tone holes, the instrument had only a range of twelve notes. Musicians would then counteract this by creating multiple sizes of the chalumeau to produce a range from the bass to the soprano. By doing so, the chalumeau became an establish... ... middle of paper ... ...these early works would be no different as it is now as I do not have to learn any of the clarinets extended techniques that one would probably learn to play more modern pieces. Works Cited http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJ3-QvZvI0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYtBQGlQWuw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6tHe0_cy64 http://www.allmusic.com/composition/concerto-for-2-clarinets-2-oboes-strings-amp-continuo-in-c-major-rv-560-mc0002388849 http://books.google.com/books?id=W9ucaUKJkw4C&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=baroque+music+for+clarinet&source=bl&ots=98ScYVUMnm&sig=f6HXpVqTER-#v=onepage&q=baroque%20music%20for%20clarinet&f=false https://www.melbay.com/Author/Default.aspx?AuthorId=38212 http://www.the-clarinets.net/english/clarinet-history.html http://www.clarinet.org/Anthology1.asp?Anthology=6 http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/a/clarinethistory.htm wikipedia.org
They had many different configurations, 2, 3, 4,5,6,7 or 8 holes. The flute we used in class is 6 holes, and we also saw many different flutes in class, someone smaller, someone larger, someone with 3 holes, etc. The oldest flutes we have were made from wing bones of a Griffon Vulture [1] and a Whooper Swan [2], as well as one
When you hear the instrument, “clarinet” which person do you think of? Lots of people try to be funny and answer Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants but who really were the super stars of this well-known instrument? There are many clarinet players out there that had a lot of great master pieces and who made very important achievements with this instrument. One of these famous clarinet players was a man named Johann Simon Hermstedt. Johann Simon Hermstedt was one of the many well-known clarinet players of the 19th century. Hermstedt was born on December 29 of 1778 and he died on August 10 of 1846 in Sondershausen, Germany. Hermstedt also played an important part in Germany, when he lived in Germany, he played as court clarinetist to Duke Gunther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and he also taught him how to play the clarinet. Another clarinet player named Louis Spohr’s used to play concerts and he played four concerts along with Carl Maria von Weber, played all pieces that were composed by Hermstedt. These two clarinet players were very dedicated to his work and his life; they were very inspired by his way of playing. Hermstedt was pretty much a bit of a composer himself, he wrote various pieces of music for other wind instrument players but he’s not as famous as Mozart and all other composers, he was more of a conservative player.
During the Baroque period, instrumental music was written for every conceivable size of ensemble. On the smaller side, the Baroque sonata offers one of the finest examples of chamber music. Two types of sonata are found during this period: the sonata da chiesa (church sonata), and the sonata da camera (chamber sonata). The sonata da chiesa was more somber, while the sonata da camera was, much like the suite, usually comprised of dance forms. The gigue from Corelli's Sonata for 2 violins and lute is a fine example of the sonata da camera
In the 17th Century the French Horn began to become an important brass element to music composers. The Instrument began as an invention based on early hunting horns and has origins first being used in late 16th Century, Western Europe Operas. These horns were monotone until 1753 where a German musician of the name Hampel, invented a use of moveable slides in varying lengths to change the key of the horn. In 1760 it was further developed by the discovery that placing your hand over the bell of the French Horn, lowered the tone called stopping. The St...
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When it comes to classic musical instrument, piano is definitely one of the names that pop up in your mind. Indeed, after its first appearance around the year of 1700, piano has never left the stage of high culture and top class performance. Till today, three hundred years have past since it was first invented. Surely, a lot of changes have been made during this long period of evolution, the designers learnt to utilize better materials but the basic inner mechanism have stayed the same. However, the outside appearance of piano did changed a few times throughout the course of time. The first piano borrowed quite a bit of its look and design from the harpsichord because it was invented by Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, an Italian harpsichord maker. (Powers, W. 2008) Namely, a noticeable amount of improvements have been made during the evolution of the instrument base on the demand of the time and arena. In this essay, stringed instruments with keyboard which are in the
Mozart’s concertos always a part of the horn standard repertoire, because every horn player knows these pieces and want to play these pieces as well. I analyze some Mozart’s horn concertos because I want to help horn player understand more the background of the classical period and to organize these pieces more clearly.
•The use of the basso continuo, also known as thoroughbass, is a bass line running continuously throughout a piece. The basso continuo is usually played by a bass string and/or low woodwind instrument plus the harpsichord and/or organ. Development of well-tempered tuning and the major-minor tonal system, together with an increased use of chromaticism, the use of all the half steps. There is a distinct shift from the modal system of...
Music throughout the ages has changed dramatically. Starting in the Medieval period, from 400-1475, music was in the form of what is called the Gregorian chant. Instruments were very rarely used at this time. Since songs during this period were either troubadour or trouvere these chants had no real harmony. One example of this type of medieval composition is “Viderunt Omnes” by Leoninus. Like most Gregorian chants the texture of this piece is monophonic and polyphonic. “Viderunt Omnes” is a typical Gregorian chant in that it uses diatonic, not chromatic notes of the scale. Musical compositions during the Medieval period was made mostly by members of the church for the church. It was and is a very slow and steady movement that was meant to create a feeling of peace for worship purposes.
Throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, one instrument can be regarded as the poster child of the percussion family. Due to its appropriation to the nobility, the timpani were not employed until Jean-Baptiste Lully first utilized the timpani for non-court associated activities. As aforementioned in Chapter I, Lully employed timpani in his operas and orchestral works roughly 50 years preceding its rise to popularization later in the Baroque; mainly by the likes of Bach and Handel. However, one of the biggest composers for timpani, as an instrument, was the composer who is considered to bridge the gap between the Classical and Romantic periods, Beethoven. Beethoven employed timpani to an extent that elevated the instrument above the hyper-rhythmical confines of Mozart and Haydn, to the level of an instrument that fully coalesced with an ensemble and his writing style. In fact, to the present Beethoven’s works
Joseph Haydn’s historic role helped perfect the new instrumental music of the late eighteenth century. In his late symphonies he expanded the size of his orchestra’s. Hayden also put greater emphasis on the brass and the clarinet, which was new to the orchestra.
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The Baroque era's name Baroque, meaning "exaggerated", "abnormal", or even "bizarre", cultivated some of the most revolutionary music and ideas in the timeline of composition itself. It's image, ranging from destitution and lavishness as shown through the period's art and political and economic being, has set this era apart in time through evolution and exploration. The culture and politics surrounding this era and the techniques and methods created are keys to understanding the baroque era and its success in progressing music to where it is today.
The instruments of the time were classified into two sections. There was the “bas” and “haut” or “low” and “high”. The instruments were divided not by range of pitch, but by volume. The bas instruments or soft instruments were used to play indoors and they were the harp, lute, psaltery, transvers flute, and recorder. The haut instruments or loud instruments were used