Clarinet

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Repertoire examples for 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 Clarinet. Playlist available here on Spotify.

“Beethoven, Fourth Symphony, 2nd movt., meas. 26; Sixth Symphony, 2nd movt., meas. 69.

Weber, Overture to Oberon, meas. 64.

Schubert, Symphony in B minor (Unfinished), 2nd movt., meas. 66.

Tchaikovsky, Fifth Symphony, beginning; 2nd movt., meas. 66; 3rd movt., meas. 28; Sixth Symphony, 1st movt., meas. 163, also meas. 326.

Debussy, Iberia, meas. 8.

Rachmaninoff, Second Piano Concerto, 2nd movt., near beginning. Stravinsky, Petrouchka, figure 100.

Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, figure 11 (“The Cat”). Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra, 2nd. movt., meas. 45.

Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, I. “Dawn."

Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes ofPaul Klee, 7th movt. ”