Notes for Clarinetists

Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student clarinetists. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and informative analyses to help clarinetists gain a more complete understanding of Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra, Harp, and Piano, Robert Schumann's Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73. and Time Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43. by Robert Muczynski, among many others.
With close attention to matters of context, style, and harmonic and formal analysis, Albert Rice explores a significant portion of the repertoire, and offers a faithful and comprehensive guide that includes works by Boulez, Brahms, and Mozart to Hindemith, Poulenc, and Stamitz. Rice includes biographical information on each composer and highlights history's impact on the creation and performance of important works for clarinet.
Intended as a starting point for connecting performance studies with scholarship, Rice's analysis will help clarinetists gain a more complete picture of a given work. Its valuable insights make it essential to musicians preparing and presenting programs, and its detailed historical information about the work and composer will encourage readers to explore other works in a similarly analytical way. Covering concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo clarinet, Rice presents Notes for Clarinetists as an indispensable handbook for students and professionals alike.

Albert R. Rice holds a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is a clarinetist, author, researcher, appraiser of musical instruments, past president of the American Musical Instrument Society, and review editor for the AMIS Journal and Newsletter. He has written three books on the history of the clarinet published by Oxford University Press and Four Centuries of Musical Instruments: the Catalog of the Marlowe A. Sigal Musical Instrument Collection published by Schiffer Publications; is a retired librarian; and was a musical instrument museum curator. In 2011, he was awarded the American Musical Instrument Society's Curt Sachs Prize honoring lifetime devotion to scholarship related to musical instruments, and the 2011 Nicholas Besseraboff Prize for the most distinguished book-length work in English published in 2009 which best furthers the Society's goal "to promote study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods."

- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Arthur Benjamin, Le Tombeau de Ravel Valse-Caprices for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 2 Alban Berg, Four pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5
- Chapter 3 Luciano Berio, Sequenza IXa for clarinet solo
- Chapter 4 Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 5 Pierre Boulez, Domaines for clarinet alone
- Chapter 6 Johannes Brahms, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 120, no. 1
- Chapter 7 Aaron Copland, Concerto for clarinet, string orchestra, harp, and piano
- Chapter 8 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 5
- Chapter 9 Claude Debussy, Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 10 Gerald Finzi, Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, op. 23
- Chapter 11 Jean Françaix, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
- Chapter 12 Paul Hindemith, Sonata for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 13 Franz Krommer, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 36
- Chapter 14 Jean-Xavier Lefèvre, Sonata for clarinet and bass, op. 12, no. 1
- Chapter 15 Witold Lutos?awski, Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 16 Donald Martino, A set for clarinet unaccompanied
- Chapter 17 Bohuslav Martin-, Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
- Chapter 18 Darius Milhaud, Sonatina for clarinet and piano, op. 100
- Chapter 19 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, K. 622
- Chapter 20 Robert Muczynski, Time pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 43
- Chapter 21 Carl Nielsen, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 57
- Chapter 22 Krzysztof Penderecki, Three miniatures for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 23 Francis Poulenc, Sonata for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 24 Max Reger, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 107
- Chapter 25 Gioachino Rossini, Introduction, theme and variations for clarinet and orchestra
- Chapter 26 Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 2
- Chapter 27 Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 162
- Chapter 28 Robert Schumann, Fantasy pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 73
- Chapter 29 William O. Smith, Variants for solo clarinet
- Chapter 30 Louis Spohr, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, op. 26
- Chapter 31 Johann Stamitz, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
- Chapter 32 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Der Kleine Harlekin für Klarinette, Werk Nr. 42-
- Chapter 33 Igor Stravinsky, Three pieces for clarinet solo
- Chapter 34 Antoni Szalowki, Sonatina for clarinet and piano
- Chapter 35 Carl Maria von Weber, Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
- Bibliography
- Index