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This is Disney's Fantasia 2000, which uses Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The piece begins with a clarinet solo, playing an ascending scale, and when the scale rises to the highest note, a laissez-faire main theme bursts forth.
In "Clarinet Polka", a series of semitones played by the clarinet vividly express the joy of people's hearts.
Sometimes melancholy, sometimes cheerful, but in the case of the clarinet, it is very easy. Its treble area is loud and clear, the midrange area is full of expression, the timbre is pure, clear and beautiful, the bass area is low, thick and plump, and it is one of the most widely used instruments in the woodwind music family.
Therefore, in orchestras, the clarinet is known as the "orator" and the dramatic soprano in woodwind instruments.
The clarinet is a woodwind instrument that consists of a flute head, a flute body, and a flared mouth in front.
Its voice is relatively calm, and it has a particularly noble and elegant temperament.
Clarinets are in the band and belong to the woodwind group. The clarinet is customarily called "black pipe" in China, while in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions it is called "vertical flute".
The material of the clarinet is usually made of African black wood, which is black throughout and inlaid with silver glittering buttons. The sounding principle is to blow the fixed reed at the mouth of the blow by the breath, with the appropriate pressure on the lower lip, and the thin reed tip makes the air column inside the instrument pipe begin to vibrate, and produce a soft tone.
The first to introduce the clarinet to the symphony orchestra was the German Mannheim School of music in the 18th century.
clarinet.
However, its earlier image was not like this. The history of the clarinet can be traced back to the horn and bagpipe, and is generally believed to have evolved from a reed flute, a clarinet-like instrument similar to the vertical flute.
The original clarinet was an ancient European instrument called the reed flute, cylindrical in shape, with no buttons, no horn, and only seven sound holes.
According to the Bavarian Museum of Musical Instruments and Crafts in Germany, the predecessor of the modern clarinet was the "Chaulumeau". This is a keyless cylindrical wind instrument.
The first person to reform the instrument was a German instrument maker named Johann Daene. Around 1700, he installed two keys and a horn on the instrumental wind, which was the clarinet of the two keys first invented by TheEne Reform. Since then, the process of clarinet evolution has been initiated, and bartolt has extended the instrumental body and added a third key.
Joseph Beale, the founder of the German School, installed a fourth and fifth key on the instrument, adding four tones.
In 1791, the French clarinetist and professor of instrumental music at the Conservatoire de Paris, Gerzhavière Le Faueux added a sixth key to the instrument.
So far, from Dané to LeFevel, after a century, the clarinet has completed the evolution from primitive to modern. The clarinet's playing skills have also improved considerably. It was during this period that Mozart composed the Clarinet Concerto in A major and first applied the clarinet in A key to the orchestra.
People familiar with music can hear that this melody was adopted by the film Out of Africa to depict the scenery on the African savannah.
Almost at the same time, the composers, conductors and violinists of the German Mannheim School of music vigorously developed the art of clarinet, and the younger Stadtmits composed more than twenty concertos for the clarinet.
Clarinets are often used to represent anthropomorphism, to describe a certain image.
In Peter and the Wolf, the clarinet describes a particularly large cat, and then it's cute, but it's a little witty, and it feels bad.
The clarinet is also used to depict the hearts of the characters, like the clarinet "La Traviata Fantasia", which very delicately completes the aria of the characters in the play.
The clarinet's voice is more like a floral soprano, very high-pitched, very skillful of that kind of floral cavity.
Today we can hear such a beautiful chromatic scale clarinet piece, and we should be grateful to the predecessors for the unremitting transformation of the instrument.
Remarks: This article is a micro-visual text version of the Symphony Knowledge Series. 25 episodes.
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