Notes for Clarinetists
A Guide to the Repertoire
Published on 9. February 2017
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-020520-1 (ISBN)
Description
Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student clarinetists. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and informative analyses to help clarinetists gain a more complete understanding of Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra, Harp, and Piano, Robert Schumann's Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73. and Time Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43. by Robert Muczynski, among many others.
With close attention to matters of context, style, and harmonic and formal analysis, Albert Rice explores a significant portion of the repertoire, and offers a faithful and comprehensive guide that includes works by Boulez, Brahms, and Mozart to Hindemith, Poulenc, and Stamitz. Rice includes biographical information on each composer and highlights history's impact on the creation and performance of important works for clarinet.
Intended as a starting point for connecting performance studies with scholarship, Rice's analysis will help clarinetists gain a more complete picture of a given work. Its valuable insights make it essential to musicians preparing and presenting programs, and its detailed historical information about the work and composer will encourage readers to explore other works in a similarly analytical way. Covering concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo clarinet, Rice presents Notes for Clarinetists as an indispensable handbook for students and professionals alike.
With close attention to matters of context, style, and harmonic and formal analysis, Albert Rice explores a significant portion of the repertoire, and offers a faithful and comprehensive guide that includes works by Boulez, Brahms, and Mozart to Hindemith, Poulenc, and Stamitz. Rice includes biographical information on each composer and highlights history's impact on the creation and performance of important works for clarinet.
Intended as a starting point for connecting performance studies with scholarship, Rice's analysis will help clarinetists gain a more complete picture of a given work. Its valuable insights make it essential to musicians preparing and presenting programs, and its detailed historical information about the work and composer will encourage readers to explore other works in a similarly analytical way. Covering concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo clarinet, Rice presents Notes for Clarinetists as an indispensable handbook for students and professionals alike.
Reviews / Votes
In clear contours, Albert Rice here compiles useful information for everyone engaged with the clarinet, offering insight into the structure and historical background of each of the works discussed. A highlight of the book is that it concentrates on composers of the twentieth century, so the reader can incorporate works rarely played here into his or her repertoryand of course the warhorses are not absent. * Rohrblatt * With clear and precise prose, the chosen point of view for analysis of each work is eminently practical and designed for the reader to easily identify the most important points [of each piece]The books utility, especially for professors and practitioners, is indisputable. We all know how frequently print editions include mistakes. Rice, through his thorough research, anticipates these errors, always providing corrections and naming sourcesNotes for Clarinetists [is] an indispensable tool for professional clarinetists, professors, students, amateurs and researchers. * Pedro Rubio, Quodlibet * Notes for Clarinetists will quickly become a go-to book for clarinetists of all levels, from amateurs and students to top professionals. * Dr. Marie Ross, The Clarinet * ...A book full of fascinating and useful information. Belongs on the desk of every clarinetist and clarinet teacher... * Dr. David Ross, Professor of Music, University of Texas at El Paso, Noted Clarinet Historian * Notes for Clarinetists shows that Albert Rice is not only one of the foremost historians of the clarinet, but also a thoughtful and accomplished musician. The book will be of great help to clarinetists as they prepare for performances of the significant repertoire it covers. Each essay provides a wealth of information that will surely be an indispensible resource deserving a place on every clarinetist's bookshelf. * Jane Ellsworth, Professor of Music, Eastern Washington University *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-020520-1 (9780190205201)
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Person
Albert R. Rice holds a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is a clarinetist, author, researcher, appraiser of musical instruments, past president of the American Musical Instrument Society, and review editor for the AMIS Journal and Newsletter. He has written three books on the history of the clarinet published by Oxford University Press and Four Centuries of Musical Instruments: the Catalog of the Marlowe A. Sigal Musical Instrument Collection published by Schiffer Publications; is a retired librarian; and was a musical instrument museum curator. In 2011, he was awarded the American Musical Instrument Society's Curt Sachs Prize honoring lifetime devotion to scholarship related to musical instruments, and the 2011 Nicholas Besseraboff Prize for the most distinguished book-length work in English published in 2009 which best furthers the Society's goal "to promote study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods."
Content
Table of Contents
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Arthur Benjamin, Le Tombeau de Ravel Valse-Caprices for clarinet and piano
Chapter 2 Alban Berg, Four pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5
Chapter 3 Luciano Berio, Sequenza IXa for clarinet solo
Chapter 4 Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 5 Pierre Boulez, Domaines for clarinet alone
Chapter 6 Johannes Brahms, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 120, no. 1
Chapter 7 Aaron Copland, Concerto for clarinet, string orchestra, harp, and piano
Chapter 8 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 5
Chapter 9 Claude Debussy, Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
Chapter 10 Gerald Finzi, Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, op. 23
Chapter 11 Jean Francaix, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
Chapter 12 Paul Hindemith, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 13 Franz Krommer, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 36
Chapter 14 Jean-Xavier Lefevre, Sonata for clarinet and bass, op. 12, no. 1
Chapter 15 Witold Lutosawski, Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano
Chapter 16 Donald Martino, A set for clarinet unaccompanied
Chapter 17 Bohuslav Martinu, Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Chapter 18 Darius Milhaud, Sonatina for clarinet and piano, op. 100
Chapter 19 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, K. 622
Chapter 20 Robert Muczynski, Time pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 43
Chapter 21 Carl Nielsen, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 57
Chapter 22 Krzysztof Penderecki, Three miniatures for clarinet and piano
Chapter 23 Francis Poulenc, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 24 Max Reger, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 107
Chapter 25 Gioachino Rossini, Introduction, theme & variations for clarinet & orchestra
Chapter 26 Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 2
Chapter 27 Camille Saint-Saens, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 162
Chapter 28 Robert Schumann, Fantasy pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 73
Chapter 29 William O. Smith, Variants for solo clarinet
Chapter 30 Louis Spohr, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 26
Chapter 31 Johann Stamitz, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
Chapter 32 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Der Kleine Harlekin fuer Klarinette, Werk Nr. 421/2
Chapter 33 Igor Stravinsky, Three pieces for clarinet solo
Chapter 34 Antoni Szalowki, Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Chapter 35 Carl Maria von Weber, Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
Bibliography
Index
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Arthur Benjamin, Le Tombeau de Ravel Valse-Caprices for clarinet and piano
Chapter 2 Alban Berg, Four pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5
Chapter 3 Luciano Berio, Sequenza IXa for clarinet solo
Chapter 4 Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 5 Pierre Boulez, Domaines for clarinet alone
Chapter 6 Johannes Brahms, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 120, no. 1
Chapter 7 Aaron Copland, Concerto for clarinet, string orchestra, harp, and piano
Chapter 8 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 5
Chapter 9 Claude Debussy, Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
Chapter 10 Gerald Finzi, Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, op. 23
Chapter 11 Jean Francaix, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
Chapter 12 Paul Hindemith, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 13 Franz Krommer, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 36
Chapter 14 Jean-Xavier Lefevre, Sonata for clarinet and bass, op. 12, no. 1
Chapter 15 Witold Lutosawski, Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano
Chapter 16 Donald Martino, A set for clarinet unaccompanied
Chapter 17 Bohuslav Martinu, Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Chapter 18 Darius Milhaud, Sonatina for clarinet and piano, op. 100
Chapter 19 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, K. 622
Chapter 20 Robert Muczynski, Time pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 43
Chapter 21 Carl Nielsen, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 57
Chapter 22 Krzysztof Penderecki, Three miniatures for clarinet and piano
Chapter 23 Francis Poulenc, Sonata for clarinet and piano
Chapter 24 Max Reger, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 107
Chapter 25 Gioachino Rossini, Introduction, theme & variations for clarinet & orchestra
Chapter 26 Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 2
Chapter 27 Camille Saint-Saens, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 162
Chapter 28 Robert Schumann, Fantasy pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 73
Chapter 29 William O. Smith, Variants for solo clarinet
Chapter 30 Louis Spohr, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 26
Chapter 31 Johann Stamitz, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
Chapter 32 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Der Kleine Harlekin fuer Klarinette, Werk Nr. 421/2
Chapter 33 Igor Stravinsky, Three pieces for clarinet solo
Chapter 34 Antoni Szalowki, Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Chapter 35 Carl Maria von Weber, Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
Bibliography
Index