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Author: Band Geekette
Date: 2008-07-10 05:44
Does anyone know what the names of the different registers are? I only ever remember "altissimo" and I would like to know the names of the other ones, just to know. Someone told me once, but I didn't write it down, so I forgot. Thanks!
-Sarah- ![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2008-07-10 06:05
If I'm correct, the lowest register before the first register key is hit is called "Chalemeau". Then with the thumb register key held down, you are now in the "Clarion". And above that is the "Altissimo".
Hope I'm right.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-07-10 14:14
Alexi is right on the money.
It may be helpful to think of it in terms of what we (the clarinet) can do and what we evolved from (the chalumeau) could do.
The chalumeau did not have an upper register. So quite correctly everything the clarinet does that they also could do we name after the chalumeau.
The throat tones connect the chalumeau and the clarion (and in reality is just a specialized name for a part of the chalumeau).
The clarion register is named for everything the clarinet can do that the chalumeau couldn't do.
The altissimo is everything above "high" clarion C.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Band Geekette
Date: 2008-07-10 15:35
Thank you Very helpful!
-Sarah-
~ just keep playing~
Every person is a unique instrument and we all add our own beauty to the symphony of the world....*
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-07-10 18:48
Incidentally, if anyone wants to listen to a chalumeau, if you have access to iTunes, there is an album of Telemann sonatas performed by a group called "Badinage." Included on the album is a chalumeau sonata. The chalumeau on the recording sounds a lot like a clarinet, except it has a "thinner" sound (for lack of a better term).
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-07-10 20:44
But also note the use of "clarino" instead of "clarion". There are those who says this is wrong, but a Google Books search turns up the following uses of "clarino register" in relation to clarinets:
* Anthony Baines, Woodwind Instruments and Their History
* Albert R. Rice, The Clarinet in the Classical Period
* Nicholas Cox, in Colin Lawson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
If it's a mistake, it's a mistake being made by some pretty major authorities. (I note, though, that Rice uses both "clarino" and "clarion", and that "clarion" seems to be the much more common term.)
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Author: Jkelly32562
Date: 2008-07-11 01:41
It is not a mistake, I believe clarino may be the Italian for clarion, but music history was a long time ago for me.
Jonathan
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-07-11 12:00
Yes, "clarino" is Italian and also Spanish for "clarion." I've seen both words used in professional English-language writing about the clarinet and I think either is correct. In general, I think it's rarely wrong to use an Italian term for musical matters, since Italian is so well-accepted as the International language for expression text and so forth in musical scores (forte, piano, subito, allegro, etc.).
Lelia
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Post Edited (2008-07-11 12:01)
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-07-11 12:47
I guess it should also be pointed out that there are notes that exist in both registers. For example, when trilling from throat tone Bb to B or C above with the RH side keys these notes would not be in the clarion but in the chalumeau throat tones.
Also, overblowing the throat tones in the upper clarion to replace the initial C#-D-D#-E-F of the altissimo would place these notes in the clarion and not the altissimo.
Of course, the last bit is much more successfully and seamlessly accomplished on bass clarinet than soprano. But just a thought anyway.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-07-11 20:45
See below link regarding "clarino":
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textc/Clarino.html
When I was a kid and played in a youth symphony, we played Haydn's Symphony No. 88 and they gave us clarinet players the "clarino" parts to play, which were trumpet parts. If I remember correctly, we only played on two movements, and even then we played basically the same note over and over again, whenever the music called for an accent. With our not being used to doubling these kind of brass parts, it seemed really comical to us clarinet players at the time.
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