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.

An American Heritage columnist called it the " famous opening clarinet glissando ... that has become as familiar as the start of Beethoven ’ s Fifth.

" The effect is produced by gradually opening the left-hand tone-holes on the clarinet during the passage from the last concert F ( or earlier if possible, thus employing the right hand as well ) to the top concert B-flat, adjusting the embouchure to smoothly control the continuously rising pitch.

Two of the remaining three themes are rhythmically related to the very first theme in measure 2, which is sometimes called the Glissando theme ( after the opening glissando in the clarinet solo ) or the Ritornello theme.

The opening movement begins with the solo clarinet imitating a blackbird's song, and the violin imitates a nightingale ’ s song.

It was first performed on 4 April 1997 by Martin Vogel ( clarinet ), Mayumi Hasegawa ( violin ) and Monika Schwamberger ( cello ) at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg, as first piece of the opening concert of the 11th Festival " Gegenwelten " for New Music, organized by the Kulturinstitut Komponistinnen.

In the case of the clarinet, the instrument's single reed beats against its mouthpiece, opening and closing the instrument's cylindrical closed tube to produce a tone.

* In Béla Bartók's piece Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano, the opening bars of the third movement utilize a different tuning on a separate violin ( G-D-A-E ) for a Hungarian folk effect.

Still another musical influence, suggested by the opening clarinet phrase which becomes used considerably in the course of the symphony, is Richard Strauss's tone poem Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks.

As the soloist enters, the clarinet repeats the opening theme with the expected added ornamentation.

The canonic material of the opening ritornello returns, this time involving the clarinet, and leads to the novel feature of the soloist accompanying the orchestra with an Alberti bass over the first closing theme.

The descending theme in the clarinet at the opening of the second movement.

With a pleasing and misleading start, the rollicking opening track asserts its individuality with a Vaudevillian clarinet, keeping one foot in Kinks pop and one in some elusive species of country rock.

In sonata form, opening softly in the strings followed by a melody sounded by the oboe and clarinet.

It is slow throughout ; after a quiet opening by the chimes, contrabass clarinet, and string bass, the clarinets carry the melody.

The third movement is a vigorous and cheerful rondo, shaded by moves into other keys as is the opening movement ( to C major from E minor and back during the secondary theme in this case, for instance ) and with a central section whose opening in F sharp minor is interrupted by a clarinet tune in D major, an intrusion that reminds us, notes Girdlestone, that instrumental music at the time was informed by opera buffa and its sudden changes of point of view as well as of scene.

The monotone call from the opening of the trio melody appears over the clarinet melody in the flute, oboe, and bassoon.

This is followed by a restatement of the opening clarinet theme, played loudly in the full orchestra, which transitions to a haunting variation of the theme by the solo piano.

A flutist is able to perform complex facets of Raga music such as microtonal inflections, ornamentation, and glissando by varying the breath, performing fast and dextrous fingering, and closing / opening the holes with slow, sweeping gestures.

Gervase Hughes wrote, " Although the orchestration is disfigured by over-reliance on glissando harps and succulent counter-subjects for the horns, much of the music comes over well in its new guise, and the combination of a melody from the opening chorus of Patience with the second act quintet from The Gondoliers is quite brilliant.

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