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Valentin Roeser’s Essay on the Clarinet (1764) Background and Commentary

Valentin Roeser’s Essai d’instruction à l’usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor is the earliest treatise on instrumentation and the first theoretical study of the clarinet. Comparisons are drawn with other eighteenth-century instructional materials, e.g. Francoeur’s Diapason général, La Borde’s Essai sur la musique, and Vanderhagen’s Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour la clarinette. A history of the chalumeau and two-keyed clarinet is presented, along with a biographical sketch of Roeser and an English translation of the first section of the Essai. Appendices include a checklist of Roeser’s writings and a list of eighteenth-century music using the chalumeau.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1115
Date01 January 1977
CreatorsRice, Albert Richard
PublisherScholarship @ Claremont
Source SetsClaremont Colleges
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceCGU Theses & Dissertations
Rights© 1977 Albert Richard Rice

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