![]() Now what is it all about? The German style: Beautiful but cool Ideas with the German style on the one hand and the Oriental (Arabian/Persian/Turkish/Klezmer/Gipsy) styleĪnd sound on the other. ![]() It seems that with the clarinet you have the extremes ends of these Other styles are missing "soul" and therefore are strange and not really beautiful.ĭifferent cultures have brought up special ways to sing and to play instruments - this is nothing And somebody grown up with Turkish music or with Klezmer might say all With Benny Goodman in your ears you'd be surprised how differentĪ German player would sound. The small distance between Dover in England and Calais in France is a border not only in lingual sense,īut in playing style or in what musicians one knows and hears. Have already heard and where they have grown up (that is what cultural background they have). The ideas have a lot to do with what people Who have hardly ever heard a clarinet or professional players. You will find very divergent ideas about how a clarinet should sound - regardless whether you meet people How the clarinet should sound - different ideas in different countries Sound-snippets (MP3-files) of typical pieces of music for the clarinet to listen to here. If you are not or would just like to brush up your memory, you will find a number of This article (like most others on this topic) assumes you are familiar with some standard examples Even a small child that has not much classical experience can tell aĬlarinet from a trumpet or an oboe - that is why it was used as "the cat" in Peter and the wolf. Woodwind instrument (though it is somewhat similar to the organ's and the harmonica's sound, which areĪcoustically closely related). Today, however, the clarinet has got a very characteristic, distinct sound, that is not similar to any this instrument sounds from afar similar to a trumpet":Ĭlarinetto: (that) is a wood wind instrument, invented by a Nuremberger at the beginning of this century / not un-similar from a long Oboe, except that a broad mouthpiece is fixed at it this instrument sounds from afar similar to a trumpet and reaches from tenor f to the 2-dashed a, sometimes even up to the 3-dashed c.Īt that time (but then, too, there is a good chance that the writer had not yet personally heard a clarinet). ![]() The oldest known description of the clarinet's sound dates back to 1740, and it tells us that ![]()
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