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Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) (born 1970) Joe Maneri (1927–2009) Michael Marcus (born 1952) Joe Marsala (1907–1978) Stan McDonald (born 1935) Hal McKusick (1924–2012) Mezz Mezzrow (1899–1972) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Gabriele Mirabassi (born 1967) Gussie Mueller (1890–1965) David Murray (born 1955 ...
The surviving chalumeaux were made between the beginning of the eighteenth century and about 1760 by five known instrument makers including J.C. Denner, W. Kress, Liebau, Klenig, and Muller. [4] Of these instruments, there is one soprano and one bass chalumeau, several tenor and alto chalumeaux, and one rare chalumeau d’amour.
Despite the words "At the beginning of the current century" he is often said to have developed the clarinet in 1690; there is no evidence for this. [2] In fact, J. C. Denner may have built no clarinets at all. Only one extant clarinet, owned by the University of California, Berkeley has been attributed to him, and this attribution has been ...
Believing that music might be a ticket out of poverty for his sons, Goodman’s father enrolled ten-year-old Goodman and two of his brothers in free music classes, from 1919, at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue. [4] His older brothers were given a tuba and a trumpet, while Benny, the smallest, got a clarinet.
In both popular music and classical music, there are ensembles in which both instrumentalists and singers perform, such as the rock band or the Baroque chamber group for basso continuo (harpsichord and cello) and one or more singers. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families (such as piano ...
The main body of most clarinets has an upper joint, whose mechanism is mostly operated by the left hand, and a lower joint, mostly operated by the right hand. [4] Some clarinets have a one-piece body. [4] The modern soprano clarinet has numerous tone holes—seven are covered with the fingertips and the rest are operated using a set of 17 keys. [4]
The "England's King of the Clarinet' tag emerged post-war, when he and his Dixieland band made around 200 recordings for HMV, including signature tunes Hors d'oeuvres, and Clarinet Cadenza. On The Fabulous Mr Phillips (1958, re-issued 2003) he re-visited some of the best known music from his whole career, adding strings to the orchestrations.
The A clarinet is not commonly used in band music. G clarinet — An instrument that today appears in various guises: a "Turkish clarinet" with Albert system keywork and a range to low E, a Boehm or Oehler system instrument to low E made predominantly in Germany, Italy or China, and as a Boehm system instrument with range to low C (basset ...