Date of Award
1977
Degree Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Music, MA
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Roland Jackson
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Frank Traficante
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Helen M. Smith
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 1977 Albert Richard Rice
Keywords
Roeser, Valentin, approximately 1735-approximately 1782, Clarinet Instruction and study, Clarinet History
Subject Categories
Music | Music Theory
Abstract
Valentin Roeser’s Essai d’instruction à l’usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor is the earliest treatise on instrumentation and the first theoretical study of the clarinet. Comparisons are drawn with other eighteenth-century instructional materials, e.g. Francoeur’s Diapason général, La Borde’s Essai sur la musique, and Vanderhagen’s Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour la clarinette. A history of the chalumeau and two-keyed clarinet is presented, along with a biographical sketch of Roeser and an English translation of the first section of the Essai. Appendices include a checklist of Roeser’s writings and a list of eighteenth-century music using the chalumeau.
DOI
10.5642/cguetd/103
Recommended Citation
Rice, Albert Richard. (1977). Valentin Roeser’s Essay on the Clarinet (1764) Background and Commentary. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 103. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/103. doi: 10.5642/cguetd/103
Comments
The print version of this thesis is held in the Claremont Colleges Library Special Collections. 189 leaves, including 21 leaves of plates : illustrations, music .