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

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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.

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 .

DOI

10.5642/cguetd/103

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