# The fourth movement, Scena e canto gitano (" Scene and gypsy song ") opens with five cadenzas — first by the horns and trumpets, then solo violin, flute, clarinet, and harp — played over rolls on various percussion instruments.

The symphony is characterized by its use of string and woodwind solos ; the first movement opens with a long and discursive clarinet solo over a timpani roll ; this idea returns at the start of the fourth movement, fortissimo in the strings, with wind and brass chordal accompaniment ), and subsequent movements include violin, viola, and cello solos.

The thirty-second note figure that opens the flute sonata appears with some alteration in the first movement of the oboe sonata, and in rough inversion during the second movement of the one for clarinet ; likewise, a motive consisting of a dotted note filled out by two shorter notes appears in multiple places in all three sonatas.

The first movement ( C-major ) opens with an andante clarinet solo, a long, lyrical melody that the whole orchestra eventually picks up and expands.

The first movement opens quietly with strings and clarinet playing a two-bar staccato theme which, Prokofiev biographer Daniel Jaffé suggests, " sounds almost like a ground bass passacaglia theme, that musical symbol of implacable fate ".

When she opens the window, she hears Traver playing on his clarinet.

Folk Songs from Somerset opens with a light introduction of four measures before the first melody, the folk song Blow Away the Morning Dew, played by the solo cornet ( clarinet in orchestration ).

People in the audience were losing their patience, until the clarinet glissando that opened Rhapsody in Blue was heard.

The famous clarinet opening of Rhapsody in Blue.

The opening of Rhapsody in Blue is written as a clarinet trill followed by a legato 17-note rising diatonic scale.

Osborne's work remains little-known except for his Rhapsody, which is the most frequently-performed work in the literature for unaccompanied bassoon, and in an adapted version is also popular as a recital piece for the clarinet.

* Meyer Kupferman " The Invisible Timepiece " ( 1974 ) for guitar and pre-recorded tape ; " Echoes from Barcelona " ( 1975 ); " Premeditation " ( 1976 ) for clarinet and guitar ; " Icarus " ( 1976 ) for guitar, viola and cello ; " Skywriters " ( 1976 ) for oboe, guitar and contrabass ; " Fantasy Duo " for guitar and harp ( 1978 ) " The Lament von Orfeo " ( 1979 ) soprano and guitar ; " Poetics " ( 1981 ) for guitar and vibraphone ; " Phantom Rhapsody " ( Concerto for guitar and orchestra ) ( 1991 ); Three Dances ( 2002 );

The first variation is a broad, slow restatement by the piano, beginning with a long trill followed by a glissando-like run up the keyboard, in florid anticipation of the solo clarinet run at the beginning of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue written later in 1924.

A very unusual example of the sarrusophone in jazz is on the 1924 recording by the Clarence Williams Blue 5 of " Mandy, Make Up Your Mind ," with the sarrusophone played by the jazz soprano saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Sidney Bechet.

In his later life, Roppolo, looking old and feeble far beyond his age, would come home for periods when a relative or friend could look after him, and he would sit in with local bands on saxophone or clarinet.

Alcidez could play several instruments, but mainly played the clarinet.

A contemporaraneous Viennese critic, referring to Stadler, wrote, “ I would not have thought that a clarinet could imitate the human voice so deceptively as you imitate it.

Opposite the E flat which the clarinet sustains over a chord of the sixth ( D flat, F, B flat ) in the andante of the C minor symphony, Fétis had naively written ‘ This E flat must be F. Beethoven could not have possibly made so gross a blunder .’ In other words, a man like Beethoven could not possibly fail to be in entire agreement with the harmonic theories of M. Fétis .” Troupenas did in fact remove Fétis ’ editorial marks, but Berlioz was still unsatisfied.

This, combined with organ-like stops and multiple keyboards ( the Telharmonium was polyphonic ), as well as a number of foot pedals, meant that every sound could be sculpted and reshaped — the instrument was noted for its ability to reproduce the sounds of common orchestral woodwind instruments such as the flute, bassoon, clarinet, and also the cello.

Weston also learned how to play the clarinet so he could travel with the college band.

Since at least the late 1940s, there has been discussion over whether the alto clarinet could or should be eliminated from the standard wind band.

When all subsides, echoes in woodwinds are heard and a solitary clarinet is left to mourn in a tragic atmosphere, recapturing ideas from the whole movements: " Who would have thought that so much could have come out of a gently waving viola line in empty space?

When designating instruments, " alto " likewise can refer either to the corresponding vocal range ( alto flute & alto trombone, respectively the lowest and highest common instruments of their families ) or to musical role ( treble or alto recorder and alto clarinet, with ranges of F4-F6 and G2-B ♭ 5 ).

115 may be performed with a viola substituting for the clarinet

At the time, Lewis didn't seem to be able to do much on the clarinet other than trill.

Prior to the musical depiction of his execution, there is a brief, nostalgic recollection of the idée fixe in a solo clarinet, as though representing the last conscious thought of the soon to be executed man.

And, much of Benny Goodman's clarinet style can be interpreted as having been derived from klezmer.

He was reputed to be able to produce a beautiful tone, with exceptional mastery of the low register of the basset clarinet and distinctive basset horn playing.

Biguine is a Martinican form of clarinet and trombone music which can be divided into two distinct types:

The signature sound of the biguine is the interplay between the clarinet and trombone, which can still be heard today throughout the Antilles musical milieu, from the most traditional music to the music of the cadence era or the pop sounds of today's zouk.

The clarinet was developed from the chalumeau primarily by displacing the B ♭ key up towards the mouthpiece, reducing the size of the hole and inserting a register tube ; here it still produces B ♭, but functions in addition as a register key, allowing the upper range to be easily sounded.

" The organ stop of this name is not intended to be orchestrally imitative of the clarinet.

An early example of this can be found in Franz Berwald's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and bassoon ( 1819 ), his opus 1.

The electric eels were formed by John Morton ( guitar ), Dave " E " McManus ( vocals, clarinet ), and Brian McMahon ( guitar ; not to be confused with Slint member ), all ex-pupils of Lakewood High School, Lakewood, Ohio, in 1972.

* The small-bore basset horn has a bore diameter in the range of 15. 5 to 16. 0 mm ( still somewhat larger than a soprano clarinet bore, though it is often erroneously thought to be the same ; even a large bore English clarinet, such as the old B & H 1010 design has a smaller bore of 15. 3 mm ).

Cantabria has a rich dance repertoire for soprano clarinet, also known as pitu or requinto ( not to be confused with the requinta fife ).

A few modern composers, among them Bill Sweeney, Harrison Birtwistle and Alan Ray Hacker, have written works featuring basset clarinet ; Joan Tower's 1988 clarinet concerto is written to be played on either basset or standard clarinet Many clarinet makers now produce basset clarinets, or extended lower joints which will convert a standard clarinet to a basset clarinet.

" Pee Wee now decided that his primary instrument would be the clarinet, and the type of music he would play would be jazz.

It is now thought that the clarinet concerti by Eybler and Kozeluch were also written for Anton Stadler.

During high school, Smith played clarinet in the school band and also played guitar, piano and sang in the bands Stranger Than Fiction and A Murder of Crows, billed as either Steven Smith or " Johnny Panic ".

During the 19th century and into the 20th there were sporadic attempts by Sax, Buffet, Besson and others to build a successful contrabass clarinet in either E ♭ or B ♭.

Jimmy Strong on clarinet and Fred Robinson on trombone were not as strong soloists as Dodds and Ory had been with the earlier band, but with pianist Earl Hines Armstrong here met a musician who was more nearly his equal technically and creatively than any other in either band.

On woodwind instruments-for example saxophone, clarinet, oboe and flute-multiphonics can be produced either with new fingerings, by using different embouchures, or voicing the throat with conventional fingerings.