The Clarinet in the Classical Period - Hardcover

Rice, Albert R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019514483X ISBN 13: 9780195144833

Publisher: OUP USA, 2003

Synopsis

A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets. Rice also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period.

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Review

Encyclopedic in scope, the book is truly a one-stop source of information on the Classical era clarinet....Rice does an excellent job of bringing together everything that is known about the Classical clarinet. (Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society)

About the Author

Albert R. Rice has been an active performer on historic and modern clarinets for over thirty years. He is the author of The Baroque Clarinet as well as more than 60 articles and reviews on the clarinet's history. The curator of the Fiske Collection of Musical Instruments in Claremont, California, Rice is also an independent appraiser of musical instruments and works as a professional librarian.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019514483X
• ISBN 13: 9780195144833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336