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A dictionary of musical terms, 1907
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1trabass, bass, barytone, tenor, alto, and soprano.)—2. Clarinetto register of the clarinet.—3. Bugler (for infantry).
3Clang. See Klang.
5Clang-color, Clang-tint. Timbre, "tone-color;" the quality of a tone, dependent on the number and intensity of its harmonics.
7Claquebois (Fr.) Xylophone.
9Clarabella. An organ-stop having open wooden pipes of 8-foot pitch and soft, mellow tone.
11Claribel-flute. A 4-foot Clarabella.
13Clarichord. An instr. of the late middle ages, apparently a variety of harp, though thought by some to have been identical with the clavichord.
15Clarin (Fr.) See Clarion.
17Clarinet'. 1. (Ger. Klarinet'te; Fr. clarinette; It. clarinet'to.) The parent instr. of the clarinet family was the chalumeau, a primitive wind-instr. having a cylindrical tube with 9 finger-holes, and a beating reed; its entire scale
19was composed of the prime tones produced by successively opening the holes.—The modern clarinet differs from the chalumeau chiefly in its ability to reproduce the prime tones of its scale (or rather their third partials) a twelfth higher; this result is due to the addition of a small hole, covered by an extra key, at the nodal point dividing the air-column into 3 equal portions,—an improvement attributed to Joh. Chr. Denner of Nuremberg about 1700. The higher scale or register thus obtained was termed, by reason of its bright and piercing quality, clarinetto (whence the name of the modern instr.); the original lower scale retained the name of the old chalumeau.—The soprano clarinet in C is the typical instr. of the family; compass 3 octaves and a sixth (with chromatic intermediate tones):
21It has a cylindrical wooden tube pierced by 18 holes, 13 of which are closed by keys, yielding a chromatic series of 19 prime tones (e to b17); it is composed of 5 pieces or joints, namely, the mouthpiece with the reed, the socket (Ger. Birne), the "right-hand" and "left-hand" joints of the tube proper, and the bell; its higher registers are simply the third, and fifth or ninth, partials of the prime tones (from b17 to f3, and f3# to c4.) The quality of the tone differs greatly in the four registers, the "chalumeau" and "clarinetto", being comparable to the female contralto and soprano respectively, while the medium is weak and veiled, and the highest shrill and piercing. Several sizes are made: (1) The large soprano cl. in C, B7, and A, and (2) the small soprano clarinets in D, E, F and A7, these last being mostly used in military music, in which their position is similar to that held by the violins in the orchestra. There are also alto (or barytone) clarinets in F and E7, and bass clarinets in C, B7, or A (octave below the soprano instr.s of the symphony-orchestra). The cl. is a transposing instr., and its music is written in the C-clef. The fingering is very complicated and the reed difficult to manage, a slight error of judgment sufficing to produce the fatal "couac."—2. See Clarionet 2.
23Clarinet-stop. See Krumm'horn.
25Clarinet'to (It.) See Clarinet.
27Clari'no (It.) 1. Clarion 1 and 2.—2. A name loosely applied to the trumpet and bugle.—3. Used for tromba, in some old scores.
29Clarion. 1. A small, shrill-toned trumpet.—2. In the organ, a 4-foot reed-stop of a shrill, piercing tone.
31Clarionet. 1. A clarinet.—2. In the organ, an 8-foot reed-stop of soft tone. ..Clarionet-flute, a flue-stop with perforated cover.
33Classic. In a restricted sense, a composition is called classic when it belongs to an acknowledged style in art, and is by an acknowledged master of
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