can someone please help me find some music transposed to clarinet in the Romeo and Juliet time period?

Answer 1

Do you mean the time period Shakespeare (or whomever) wrote Romeo & Juliet?

If so, the only reason to transpose the music would be if you're gonna play it with other non-Bb instruments. Find any madrigals, etc., from the Elizabethan/Shakespearean time and play your heart out.

Be aware though that the clarinet wasn't invented until the 1690's (about 100-200 years later) and it wasn't written for much until the 1780's...

Answer 2

The setting period is very late 1500s England. One line seems to indicate that we're 11 years after 1580.

That period in music history would be still Renaissance and almost into the Baroque. This means the period music of the setting is Renaissance but that when this was performed it was probably done to Baroque music.

While the clarinet as we know it didn't exist yet, the progenitor of the clarinet did exist. It was called a chalameau.

This period in England was within the Elizabethan Era (Queen Elizabeth I). There is an article here http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-music.htm about the period music.

As woodwinds go, the period flute was what we now call the recorder. Recorder is a fairly simple instrument to learn and if you're interested in music of this period, you may want to explore playing recorder.