what instruments are in a clarinet quintet?

Question

I need this info for a music h/w. please help

Answer 1

There are about 2 dozen instruments in the clarinet family.
But quartets and quintets typically will include e-flat, b-flat, alto, bass, and contra-alto and/or contrabass clarinets.
This is also sometimes called a "clarinet choir".

Answer 2

It's a free country, at least now, anyway. So, you can play the piece on whatever you want. I suppose what you propose is possible. However, let me suggest the bass instrument is the wrong texture for the piece, especially if you go into the clarion register with an octave transposition. If you consider the composer's intent, look for something approximating a basset horn. In my appraisal, the closest you will find (other than the real thing in a museum) is an ALTO clarinet. Yes, there will be a key transposition to accommodate the Eb instrument. But the texture will be almost perfect. In fact, you might even want to stick with your regular Bb soprano instrument. Here, read what Wikipedia says about Mozart's clarinet quartet(s): "Although originally written for basset clarinet, it is almost always played on a clarinet in A or B-flat. It was Mozart's only completed clarinet quintet, and is one of the earliest and best-known works written especially for the instrument. It remains exceptionally popular today due to its lyrical melodies, with the second movement the best known." Good luck with your performance.

Answer 3

If you are thinking the classical interpretation of clarinet quintet, then it is as others have said the clarinet plus the string quartet.

However, the all-clarinet clarinet quintet (and not at all unlikely ! ) consists of basically two primary instrumentations: Eb clarinet, 3 Bb Clarinets, and Bass Clarinet or 3 Bb clarinets, Alto Clarinet, and Bass Clarinet. Other combinations are possible but infrequent. Add a contra-alto or contra-bass clarinet (and if not needed delete the Eb soprano clarinet) and you have a clarinet choir.

Actually you can find some considerable amount of music for these combinations from some of the smaller publishing companies. One publisher that has about 20 compositions and arrangements for the (all-)clarinet quintet is:

http://www.whichpond.com/

Musician, composer, clarinetist, teacher.

Answer 4

"Clarinet Quintet" usually refers to an ensemble made up of one clarinet, two violins, a viola and a cello - a clarinet added to a string quartet basically. There are some lovely classical and romantic clarinet quintets, e.g. the Mozart, Brahms and Weber Clarinet Quintets.

However, it may also refer to an ensemble made up of five clarinets, but this is unlikely. There isn't much repertoire out there for five clarinets. Clarinet trios and quartets (three and four clarinets) are the most common.

Answer 5

A clarinet quintet would probably consist of 3 B-flat clarinets (1st, 2nd, and 3rd parts), a bass clarinet, and an E-flat clarinet.
Or it might have any combination of B-flat, E-flat, alto, bass, and contrabass.

Answer 6

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed.

Clarinets actually comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument family, with more than two dozen types. Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually played on one of the more common size instruments. The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the B♭ soprano clarinet, by far the most common clarinet. (See "Clarinet family").

A person who plays the clarinet is called a clarinetist or clarinettist.

Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. It was Mozart's only clarinet quintet, and one of the earliest, and best known works written especially for the instrument. It remains exceptionally popular today due to its lyrical melodies, with the second movement the best known.

The composer indicated that the work was finished on 29 September 1789. This quintet is sometimes referred to as the Stadler Quintet; Mozart so described it in a letter of April 1790.

Quintet for clarinet and strings is a piece of chamber music by the American composer Douglas Moore. In 1946, the Juilliard School of Music requested from Moore a chamber piece to be performed at a school concert the following year. He worked at and finished the piece during the summer of 1946 at his home in Cutchogue. The premiere was given the following year. The work is in traditional sonata form and consists of four movements

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Allegro risoluto The first movement is the most dynamic and is chiefly dominated by a tensely rhythmic figure achieved by a triplet laid over a duplet. This duality of rhythm becomes most obvious when the two components are handled by different instruments, but the combination and tension that is achieved gives this movement its impetus

Andante comodo The second movement is considerably relaxed in mood and is introduced by a melodic figure on violin which becomes the contrapuntal background to the main theme, first given by clarinet. The theme subsequently continues throughout the piece.

Adagio recitativo The shortest movement of the quintet, it commences with a brooding soliloquy on clarinet accompanied by the viola which is the picked up by the remaining strings and is allowed to fade out.

Allegro ritmico The finale consists of a robust, dancing and peasant-like refrain of shifting rhythm which alternates in the fashion of a rondo with contrasting material. It is the quintet's most joyful movement.

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Answer 7

I would think five clarinets.

Answer 8

The only correct answer above is the one from tuttifrutti. The rest of them need to do THEIR homework! :-)

Answer 9

clarinets

Answer 10

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MAYBE FIVE CLARONETS!!!!