Table of Contents

Introduction
1: General Design and Construction Characteristics
2: Historical Development
3: Playing Techniques
4: Music for the Classical Clarinet
5: The Clarinet in Performing Groups
Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Albert R. Rice has been an active performer on historic and modern clarinets for over thirty years. He is the author of The Baroque Clarinet as well as more than 60 articles and reviews on the clarinet's history. The curator of the Fiske Collection of Musical Instruments in Claremont, California, Rice is also an independent appraiser of musical instruments and works as a professional librarian.