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Subject Headings
Browsing the catalog for music? Get started with the following subject headings:
clarinet music | bass clarinet music | sonatas (clarinet) | concertos (clarinet) | variations (clarinet) | suites (clarinet) | clarinet and piano music | clarinet -- orchestral excerpts | trios (clarinet) | quartets (clarinet) | quintets (clarinet) | clarinet -- studies and exercises | clarinet -- construction
To specify some or all instruments for multi-instrument works, include them in parentheses, e.g.: trios (piano, flute, cello); quintets (trumpet, trombone)
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Audition Excerpts
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LexcerptsOver 1,000 excerpts of sheet music from over 200 public domain works. Provides a quick and comprehensive way to reference original parts, scores, and recordings for the most prominent orchestral excerpts requested by professional audition committees.
Call Numbers
Sheet Music
One Instrument
M70 - M74: Solo clarinet
Two Instruments
M248 - M252: Clarinet with piano accompaniment
M288 - M289: Two wind instruments
M290 - M291: One bowed instrument, one wind instrument
M296 - M297: One wind instrument, one plucked instrument
Three Instruments
M315 - M319: Piano, two wind instruments
M320 - M324: Piano, one bowed instrument, one wind instrument
M335 - M339: Piano, one wind instrument, one plucked instrument
M355 - M359: Three wind instruments (various combinations)
M360 - M364: Three bowed and wind instruments (various combinations)
M375 - M379: Three wind and plucked instruments (various combinations)
More than Three Instruments
Call numbers for instrumental music relate to instrumentation - call numbers for quartets (M400), quintets (M500), sextets (M600), septets (M700), octets (M800), and nonets (M900) will follow similar instrumentation outlined in the M300 groupings.
Example
M355 - M359 = Three wind instruments (various)
M455 - M459 = Four wind instruments (various)
M555 - M559 = Five wind instruments (various)
Orchestral Accompaniment
M1024 - M1025: Clarinet with orchestra (full scores, piano reductions)
M1124 - M1125: Clarinet with string orchestra (full scores, piano reductions)
Books
ML128.C58: Clarinet bibliographies
ML945 - ML948: General books about the clarinet (history, criticism, construction, music)
Studies & Methods
MT380 - MT388: Clarinet technique, teaching pieces, orchestral studies, etc.
MT392 - MT392.8: Bass clarinet technique, teaching pieces, orchestra studies, etc.
From the Catalog
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The Clarinet by Call Number: ML945.H64 2008 -
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet by Call Number: ML945.C36 1995 -
A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist by Call Number: eBook
Professional Organizations
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International Clarinet AssociationEstablished 1973, the ICA is a world-wide community of clarinetists. Members have access to a quarterly publication, a Research Center, and may enter competitions for research, performance, and composition of clarinet music.