See also:

• BASS
• BASS (the same word as " base," and so pronounced, but influenced in spelling by the Ital. basso)

BASS See also:

• CLARINET
• CLARINET, or CLARIONET (Fr. clarinette; Ger. Clarinette, Klarinett; Ital. clarinetto, chiarinetto)

CLARINET (Fr. clarinette basse; Ger. Bass-Klarinette; Ital. darinetto basso or clarone)  , practically the A, Bb or C See also:

• CLARINET
• CLARINET, or CLARIONET (Fr. clarinette; Ger. Clarinette, Klarinett; Ital. clarinetto, chiarinetto)

clarinet speaking an See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave See also:

• LOWER

lower; what therefore has been said concerning the fingering, transposition, acoustic properties and See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• HISTORY

history of the clarinet (q.v.) also applies to the See also:

• BASS
• BASS (the same word as " base," and so pronounced, but influenced in spelling by the Ital. basso)

bass clarinet . Owing to its greater length the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the bass clarinet differs from that of the clarinets in that the See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

bell See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint is See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent up in front of the See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument, terminating in a large gloxinea-shaped bell, and that the See also:

• MOUTHPIECE (Fr. embouchure; Ger. Mundstuck; Ital. bocchino)

mouthpiece is attached by means of a strong ligature and screws to a See also:

• SERPENT (Lat. serpens, creeping, from serpere; cf. "reptile " from repere, Gr.4 ml-eta)

serpent-shaped crook of See also:

• BRASS
• BRASS (O. Eng. braes)

brass or See also:

• SILVER

silver . The See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass of the See also:

• MODERN

modern orchestral bass clarinet is in the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main the same as that of the higher clarinets in C, Bb and A, but an octave lower, and therefore for the bass clarinet in C is t ; for the bass clarinet in Bb the real sounds See also:

• ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc)

ace one See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone, and for the bass clarinet in A IZ tone lower, although the notation is the same for all three . Sometimes the See also:

• TREBLE (a doublet of " triple," three-fold, from Lat. triplus, triple; cf. " double " from duplus)

treble def is used in notation for the bass clarinet . It must then be understood that the instrument in C speaks an491 octave lower, the bass clarinet in Bb a'See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major ninth and the bass clarinet in A a See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor tenth lower . The See also:

• TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

tenor clef is also frequently used in orchestral See also:

• WORKS

works . The quality of tone is less reedy in the bass clarinet than in the higher See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments . It resembles the See also:

• BOURDON, FRANCOIS LOUIS (d. 1797)

bourdon stop on the See also:

• ORGAN

organ, and in the lowest See also:

• REGISTER

register, more especially, the tone is somewhat hollow and wanting in See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power although mellower than that of the See also:

• BASSOON
• BASSOON (Fr. basson; Ger. Fagott; Ital. fagotto)

bassoon . In the lowest octave the instrument speaks slowly and is chiefly used. for sustained bass or See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody notes; rapid passages are impossible . The modern orchestral See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model may be fitted with almost every See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key-mechanism, including the See also:

• BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR

Boehm, and the degree of perfection and ingenuity attained has removed the all but insuperable difficulties which stood in the way of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original inventors who, not understanding key-See also:

• WORK

work, made many futile attempts to See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge the necessarily See also:

• GREAT

great distance between the See also:

• FINGER

finger-holes by making the See also:

• BORE

bore See also:

• SERPENTINE

serpentine, See also:

• BORING

boring the holes obliquely, &c . The See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch of the bass clarinet (8 ft. tone) contrasted with the moderate length of the instrument—whose bore See also:

• MEASURES

measures only some 42 to 43 inches from mouthpiece to bell, whereas that of the bassoon, an instrument of the same pitch, is twice that length—is a See also:

• PUZZLE

puzzle to many . An explanation of the fact is to be found in the See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar acoustic properties of the cylindrical See also:

• TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube played by means of a See also:

• REED
• REED, ANDREW (1787-1862)
• REED, ISAAC (1742—1807)
• REED, JOSEPH (1741—1785)
• REED, THOMAS BRACKETT (1839—1902)

reed mouthpiece characterizing the clarinet See also:

• FAMILY

family, which acts as a closed See also:

• PIPE

pipe speaking an octave lower than an open pipe of the same length, and overblowing a twelfth instead. of an octave .