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Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007

CELEBRATING THE COLLECTION OF SIR NICHOLAS SHACKLETON

Papers presented at the meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments

Edinburgh, 22-24 June 2007

Web URL: www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/uec/uec07tpl.html

These papers present original research from the world's leading experts in clarinet and woodwind studies. This compilation celebrates the contributions to clarinet and woodwind scholarshp of the late Sir Nicholas Shackleton ...

...includes 27 papers ...

The papers have been edited by Arnold Myers, Chairman of the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, assisted by Eleanor Smith (University of Edinburgh) and Heike Fricke.

Book design by Heike Fricke ...

CONTENTS

Page ??? Foreword
Arnold Myers, University of Edinburgh

Page ??? Nick Shackleton: Collector Extraordinaire
William Waterhouse, London and Cheltenham

Page ??? The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: an Overview
Heike Fricke, Berlin

Page ??? Musical History: Historical Music
Colin Lawson, Royal College of Music, London

Page ??? The Viennese Wind Instrument Maker, Theodor Lotz (c 1747-1792)
Melanie Piddocke, The Hague, Netherlands and Santes, France

Page ??? Heinrich Grenser's Keywork Concepts
Eleanor Smith, University of Edinburgh

Page ??? The Origins of French and German Clarinets
Eric Hoeprich, Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague, the Netherlands and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris

Page ??? The Basset Horn in France in the 18th Century
Jean Jeltsch, Université de Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille, France

Page ??? Clarinets of the Clinton Family
James Joseph, Northumberland

Page ??? Iwan Müller's Soprano Clarinet: Structural Evolution towards Adophe Sax's Bass Clarinet
Juncal Diago Ortega, University of Valladolid, Spain
José-Modesto Diago Ortega, Professional Conservatory of Music of Soria, Spain

Page ??? The Bass Clarinets of Adolphe Sax and their Historical Importance
Albert Rice, Fiske Museum, Claremont Colleges, California

Page ??? Clarinets by Adolphe Sax
Thomas Reil, Uhingen, Germany

Page ??? The Early American Clarinet: Makers, Sellers, Players
Jane Ellsworth, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.

Page ??? Boosey and Company: Trade in Clarinets in the Late 19th Century
Kelly White, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Page ??? Clarinet Resources in the Boosey & Hawkes Collection and Archive
E. Bradley Strauchen, Horniman Musuem, London

Page ??? The Clarinets in the Collection of the Royal College of Music, London
Ingrid Pearson, Royal College of Music, London

Page ??? The Gaida Bagpipe in the Evros region of Greek Thrace
Haris Sarris, University of Athens

Page ??? A Prescription for the Clarinet's Sore Throat: Throat B-flat Mechanisms as Illustrated by Clarinets from the Nicholas J. Shackleton Collection
Deborah Check Reeves, National Music Museum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion

Page ??? The Reform Boehm system: Right Compromise Between French and German Systems ?
Luigi Magistrelli, Italy

Page ??? Stubbins SK System Clarinet
Nophachai Cholthitchanta, Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, U.S.A.

Page ??? Clarinet Forked Eb/Bb; a New Approach
John Playfair, U.K.

Page ??? Geometry Versus Performance of a Clarinet Mouthpiece
William Peatman, Berlin

Page ??? The Home Key of the Clarinet
John Dick, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, U.K.

Page ??? Clarinets and Tárogatók used in the Viennese Court Opera under the direction of Gustav Mahler
Beatrix Darmstaedter, Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Page ??? The "Melba Gift": the Role of Woodwind and Brass Instruments in the History of the Stabilisation of Pitch Standards in Melbourne in the early Twentieth Century
Simon Purtell, Norman Macgeorge Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia

Page ??? Brazilian clarinet music by the composer Francisco Mignone and his "Concertino for clarinet and orchestra"
Fernando Silveira, Rio de Janeiro State Federal University, Brazil

Page ??? The Derivation of Contemporary Performing Techniques
Ian Mitchell, Trinity College of Music, London

Page ??? The New Clarinet in Japan
E. Michael Richards, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007 edited by Arnold Myers, Eleanor Smith and Heike Fricke
Book design by Heike Fricke
Published by Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
May 2012. ??? pages, ??? illustrations.
ISBN 978 0 907635 59 8

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