Bass Clarinet

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Repertoire examples for Bass Clarinet, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.

Recommended Listenings

The Technique of Orchestration

KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 104), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.

Suggested listening for Bass Clarinet. Playlist available here on Spotify.

“Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act. II, “King Mark’s Song.”

Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Suite: “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.”

Strauss, Don Quixote, Variation III.

Stravinsky, Petrouchka, figure 65 (“The Moor dances”).

Khachaturian, Piano Concerto, 1st movt., meas. 390; 2nd movt., beginning and meas. 220.

William Schuman, Third Symphony, Part II, meas. 157.”