Clarinet

The clarinet belongs to the family of woodwind wind blown and, like the flute, oboe and bassoon. It is a single reed wind instrument. The tongue is made of reed Arundo donax. The body of the instrument can be made of wood (ebony or rosewood traditionally), 1 ebonita2 or ABS and its further development in the nineteenth century, with improved key system placed him in a privileged position among the instruments. The beauty of his timbre makes it suitable for playing solo passages as well as being an instrument of great agility and sound, especially for the execution of trills and chromatic.
Clarinet parts: Nozzle: is the part where you placed the cane and the performer puts his mouth to make the mouth. Barrel: is the element that articulates the nozzle with the upper body of the instrument. Upper body: is where you place your left hand to play and owns part of the mechanism of the instrument. Lower body: is where you put your right hand to play and owns part of the mechanism of the instrument. Bell: Located in the bottom and plays an acoustic function allows sound projection at runtime.
There is a whole family of clarinets as recorded: From sopraninos tuned in E flat or F, to octocontrabajos tuned in B flat. The most used are:
the sopranino in E flat (also called fife and pitu mountain in Cantabria)
soprano in C, B flat (the most common) and,
high or contralto (in E flat),
low (in B) and
bass in B flat.
We have also added two widely used types of clarinets for musical classicism (which are precisely those used in most of the works of Mozart):
the basset clarinet (tuned in), and
the basset horn (tuned in F).
In the beginning, due to the difficulty of the clarinet to play in shades with various alterations, for its primitive state of evolution, was often using three clarinets: C, Bb and, depending on the hue of the work or movement . Even today are common, mainly in the operatic repertoire and contemporary music, although the Clarinet today Do not use it often gets used to use in B-flat clarinet, and clarinet in orchestral works in certain shades beyond two sharps (D major, A major, E major, etc.).
Most of these instruments are transposing. The most plausible reason is that after the evolution of the clarinet in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to acquire the ability to play in all keys, soprano clarinet in C (now disused) was too loud, for your great content high harmonics, so they chose the clarinet in B flat (the most used) and (with a sound much sweeter and darker than the clarinet in B flat). Once fixed the Soprano family, the other members were established in relation to it.
Clarinet in B flat: 

This tuned in B flat, to touch mouth need to do, buy a good mouthpiece and a reed in the number 1 and a half, to begin with, then you have more mouth reeds can use two, two and a half or three.

When you begin to touch not press any key, hold it and starts playing until you get no beeps clear sound outrageous, clearly 4 stroke starts playing until you hit 20 times with a single breath without muddy sound is heard, thus know that you have good mouth, continues to make the scale of C and emits four times per note, do not despair when changing the position of the second space of the staff to the third line if that is the most difficult when one starts playing the clarinet.

Buy a method that lets clarinet at first technical exercise, like reading long notes, scales, trembling among others.

The music for the clarinet is written in treble clef, the note that gives the instrument when not pressed any key is a sun that is written in the second line of the staff.

BASS CLARINET:

clarinet is a musical instrument of clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B ♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B ♭ (meaning it is a transposing instrument in which a written C sounds as B ♭), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B ♭ clarinet. [1] bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare (in contrast to the usual A clarinet, which is quite common in classical music). Bass clarinets regularly perform in symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, sometimes in bands, and play a role only occasionally in contemporary music and jazz in particular.
Someone who has a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinet.

Soprano clarinet:The soprano clarinets are a sub-family of the clarinet family.

The B♭ clarinet is by far the most common type of soprano clarinet—the unmodified word "clarinet" usually refers to this instrument. Other types of soprano clarinets include the instruments in A and C, sounding respectively a semitone lower and a whole tone higher than the B♭ instrument, and the low G clarinet—rare in Western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey—sounding a whole tone lower than the A. While some writers reserve a separate category of sopranino clarinets for the E♭ and D clarinets,[1] these are more usually regarded as soprano clarinets as well. 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.

The clarinet family is commonly used in an orchestral setting to provide color, especially with regards to harmonies. Composers in the classical and romantic periods featured clarinet solos as well, relying on its unique tone and range. Clarinets in C are common in music of those periods, particularly opera. There have also been soprano clarinets in C, A, and B♭ 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 B and A♭. The G "sopranino", only a half step lower than the A♭ piccolo clarinet, was popular during the late 19th century in Vienna for playing Schrammelmusik. Bb soprano clarinet is also one of the most common instruments played in beginner and high school band, bass clarinet being a second common clarinet type played in beginner and high school band.

Piccolo Clarinet
For other uses of this term, see Piccolo (disambiguation).


The Clarinet ♭ piccolo tuned.
The piccolo clarinet, also called sopranino clarinet is a woodwind instrument in the family of the clarinet. It is the smallest member of higher register and family. There is a common instrument, but the most used piccolo clarinet is tuned to the ♭ (flat), one octave above soprano clarinet. The boundary between these two clarinets is not well defined and unusual instruments tuned in G or F can be considered as both.
Today, the piccolo clarinet is tuned ♭ clarinet The modern which is commonly known as sopranino. It has a lower tessitura seventh higher than the B ♭ soprano clarinet. Its lowest note is my, like most Clarinets.
In the bands, especially in Spain and Italy, appeared in La ♭ clarinets often tuned at least until mid-twentieth century and are required to interpret various parts in the operas of Verdi.1
Cecil Forsyth instruments related to high in Austria, wrote "For the sake of completeness it should be added that in clarinets in F (high), and even in the ♭ (high) are occasionally used abroad. Latter instrument is used regularly in the Austrian military bands ".2 A famous example of widespread use of alto clarinet is a small set called Schrammel Viennese quartet, consisting of two violins (the brothers Johann and Josef Schrammel), a bass and a clarinet in G, played by Geo
rg Dänzer, during the decade of 1880.1
The ♭ clarinet in not common in the arrangements for clarinet choir (for example, Lucien Calliet, including the overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart) although the instrument is usually optional or recommended in other voices. There are parts in La ♭ clarinet in Scherzo for piano and orchestra, op. 2 Béla Bartók ("especially in unison with the clarinet in E ♭ or piccolo") and Celtic Requiem by John Tavener (1969) .1 Several chamber works of Hans-Joachim Hespos employ a clarinet in ♭, 3 including sarrusofón parts for soprano, heckelfón, and tarogato. Hespos also uses clariente in La ♭ in Interactions orchestral work.

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