Clarinet

JANE ELLSWORTH is professor of music history at Eastern Washington University. She is also a professional clarinetist, and has performed nationally and internationally on modern and historical clarinets. She is the author of A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK.

• List of IllustrationsNotes to the ReaderAcknowledgementsIntroduction (Jane Ellsworth)1. Clarinet Iconography (Eric Hoeprich)2. The Chalumeau and Clarinet Before Mozart (Albert R. Rice)3. From "Little Trumpet" to Unique Voice: The Clarinet in the Concert Orchestra (Jane Ellsworth)4. The Clarinet in Opera Before 1830: Instrument and Genre Come of Age (Ingrid Pearson)5. The Clarinet in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Julian Rushton)6. Innovation and Convention in the "Golden Age" of the Clarinet Concerto, ca. 1800-1830 (David Schneider)7. Joining the Conversation: The Clarinet Quintet in Classical and Romantic Chamber Music (Marie Sumner Lott)8. Important Clarinetists Since 1900: A Concise Introduction (Jane Ellsworth)9. Recreating History? The Early Clarinet in Theory and Practice (Colin Lawson)10.The Clarinet in Vernacular Music (S. Frederick Starr)IndexContributors

Through her network of star contributors we are given a broad image of the most up-to-date ideas concerning the clarinet universe. Ellsworth, as editor, has succeeded in keeping the tone of the chapters level; while being accurate, they are not eruditely cumbersome. The topics and writing style will engage clarinetists of all ages, and the footnotes, bibliographic in nature, point the motivated researcher further afield. This is a unique volume that is contemporary in tone and message while standing on the firmest of research foundations. [Starr's chapter is] mind-opening.