Clarinet Music - Excerpts and Parts
(Updated 29 April 2008)

This page features excerpt books and orchestral parts. Items are in alphabetical order by title on this page. In assigning difficulty levels based on years of study, we assume students start about age 11 or 12 and study privately.

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C089: Advanced Clarinet Technique - A New Approach from Great Orchestral Literature by John Gibson. JB Linear Music, 2003, SB, 59 pages. This new book uses passages from Mozart, Borodin, Brahms and other great composers to build advanced technique. They are also more than orchestral excerpt studies because they include the full musical context of the selection. The complete Marriage of Figaro Overture by Mozart is included as a bonus. A great value.
11.95
C919: The Complete Daniel Bonade compiled and edited by Larry Guy. Rivernote Press, 2007, SB, 142 pages. This combines three Bonade educational books that have not been available for several years. They are the Clarinetist's Compendium, Sixteen Phrasing Studies for Clarinet, and the Bonade Orchestral Studies for Clarinet. The editor has corrected typographical errors and notes, rhythms, dynamics, and slur markings in the Orchestral Studies. The Orchestral Studies make up the bulk of the book and include excerpts from many important orchestral works. Composers include, Beethoven, Bizet, Brahms Dvorak, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Moussorgski, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Weber, and more. The second clarinet part is included on some excerpts.
24.95
C153: Difficult Passages and Solos for Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Book 1 edited by Alamiro Giampieri. Ricordi, PB, 134 pages. Excerpts from the symphonic and operatic works of Beethoven, Bellini, Donizetti, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Respighi, Rossini, Schumann, Weber and more. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
24.95
C154: Difficult Passages and Solos for Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Book 2 edited by Alamiro Giampieri. Ricordi, PB, 134 pages. Excerpts from the symphonic and operatic works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Respighi, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner and more. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
27.95
C577: Difficult Passages Volume 2 selected and edited by R. Temple-Savage. Boosey & Hawkes, 1946, SS, 63 pages. Excerpts from the symphonic works of Frank, Glinka, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana, Tschaikovsky, Wagner, and Weber. Includes alternate B-flat parts for the excerpts for A and C clarinet and some second clarinet parts. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
49.95
C578: Difficult Passages Volume 3 selected and edited by R. Temple-Savage. Boosey & Hawkes, 1946, PB, 62 pages. Excerpts from the symphonic works of Bartok, Borodin, Britten, Delius, Elgar, Glazounov, Kodaly, Mahler, Prokofoeff, Rachmannoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Strauss, and Stravinsky. Includes alternate B-flat parts for many excerpts for A clarinet and also many second clarinet parts. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
27.95
CD356: Old Wine in New Bottles. John Reeks clarinet with the Loyala Quartet. 2007. This CD features arrangements by Harold Seletsky for clarinet and string quartet of pieces originally for clarine and piano. They are the Robert Schumann Fantasy Pieces Op. 73 and Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 1 in F minor and Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major Op. 120. In addition to the performance of these pieces, the CD includes complete .pdf versions of the score and parts for all three works.
15.95
C050: The Opera Clarinetist by Ben Armato. Reed Wizard, SB, 104 pages. A collection of excerpts from the most popular operas in the repertoire by the Ben Armato, clarinetist for the Metropolitan Opera for over 35 years. It includes 23 operas from 13 composers such as Bizet: Carmen, Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Mozart: Don Giovonni, Puccini: Tosca, Verdi: Aida, etc. The second clarinet part is also included in a number of excerpts.
24.95
C427: Orchester Probespiel - Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions Clarinet edited by Heinz Hepp and Albert Rohde. C.F. Peters, 1991, SS, 44 pages. This book of orchestra and opera excerpts was developed in Germany for use in auditions. The selections were made based on an analysis of pieces used for auditions over many years. It includes excerpts for soprano clarinet, D/E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet. The second clarinet part is also included in a number of excerpts. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
30.95
C054: The Orchestral Clarinet Vol. 1 by Kalman Bloch.  The Boston Music Co., SS, 42 pages.  Excerpts with commentary and some suggested fingerings from Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4, No. 6, and No. 8; Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Rossini Semiramide Overture; Schubert Symphony No. 8; Weber Oberon Overture.
14.95
C055: The Orchestral Clarinet Vol. 2 by Kalman Bloch. Clarion Music Assn., SS, 62 pages. Excerpts with commentary from Brahms Symphonies No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4; Tchaikovsky Symphonies No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6; Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol and Scheherazade; and Stravinsky Firebird Suite and Petrouchka.
14.95
C056: The Orchestral Clarinet Vol. 3 by Kalman Bloch. Clarion Music Assn., SS, 62 pages. Excerpts with commentary from Wagner Meistersinger, Dance of the Apprentices, Siegfried Idyll, Waldweben, Tannhauser, Venusberg Music, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan and Isolde, and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Borodin Polovetsian Dances, Prokofieff Peter and the Wolf, Strauss Don Juan, Don Quixote, Death and Transfiguration, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben, Till Eulenspiegel, Salome, and Rosenkavalier; Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain and Khovanshchina; Tchaikovsky Mozartiana and Francesca da Rimini; Debusy L'Apres-midi d'un Faune' and Kodaly Galanta Dances.  Also includes Cadenza Studies from Rimksy Korasakov L'Coq D'or, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, and Ravel Rapsodie Espagnol.
14.95
C465: Orchestral Excerpts for Sopranino [E-flat] Clarinet Vol. 1 by Jacques Merrer. International Music Diffusion, 2001, SS, 40 pages. Excerpts from the work of mostly 20th century composers including Bartok, Berlios, Britten, Copland, Dallarpiccola, Mahler, Bério, Janácek, and Stravinsky. Includes an extended excerpt from The Marvelous Mandarin transposed from the D clarinet part and a similar transposition from Stravinsky's The Firebird. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
33.95
C782: Orchestral Excerpts for Sopranino [E-flat] Clarinet Vol. 2 by Jacques Merrer. International Music Diffusion, 2005, SS, 40 pages. A second book of excerpts from the work of mostly 20th century composers including Albeniz, Bartok, Berg, Bernstein (West Side Story), Constant, Copland (3rd Symphony) Dallapicola, Enesco, Hindemith, Mahler, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Szmanowski, Varese, and Wagner. Includes an extended excerpt from Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" transposed for E-flat clarinet. Includes a fingering chart and some suggested fingerings. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
33.95
C1011: Orchestral Excerpts for Sopranino [E-flat] Clarinet Vol. 3 by Jacques Merrer. International Music Diffusion, 2006, SS, 40 pages. A third book of excerpts from the work of mostly 20th century composers including Bartok, Berg (Wozzek), Berio, Dallapiccola, Enesco, Hindemith, Mahler, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich (6th Symphony), Stravinsky, and Szmanowski. Includes a fingering chart and some suggested fingerings. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
35.95
C691: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 1 compiled by Robert McGinnis. International Music Co., 1960, SS, 44 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.25
C692: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 2 compiled by Robert McGinnis. International Music Co., 1950, SS, 47 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
22.95
C693: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 3 compiled by Robert McGinnis. International Music Co., 1954, SS, 49 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Berlioz, Brahms, de Falla, Prokofieff, Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
21.75
C694: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 4 (Revised) compiled by Robert McGinnis. International Music Co., 1954, SS, 47 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Berlioz, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Weber, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.25
C695: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 5 compiled by Stanley Drucker. International Music Co., 1968, SS, 61 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Beethoven, Debussy, Hindemith, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Weber, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.25
C697: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 7 compiled by Stanley Drucker. International Music Co., 1970, SS, 62 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Berg, Grieg, Hindemith, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.25
C698: Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Clarinet Volume 8 compiled by Stanley Drucker. International Music Co., 1971, SS, 62 pages. Excerpts from the works of many composer including Berg, Ravel, Rossini, Schubert, Tchaikovsky,  etc. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents. Use your browser's Back button to return.
18.25
OMLCL1: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 1 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2003. Complete Clarinet Parts (not just first clarinet) to 90 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM. The composers Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Weber, Rossini, Donizetti, Auber, Bellini, and Cherubini are on Volume 1. The parts are in the included Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format and require a computer (PCs running Windows 95 and above or Macs running MAC OS 7.5 and above) and a printer to use. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
OMLCL2: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 2 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2004. Complete clarinet parts (not just first clarinet) to 61 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Includes Debussy (La Mer • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun • Printemps • eight more), Mahler (Symphones 1-9 • Kindertotenlieder • Das Klagende Lied • four more), Bruckner (Symphonies 1-9 • Te Deum), Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the Animals • Danse Macabre • Symphony No. 3 in C Minor • Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor • three more), Grieg (Piano Concerto in A Minor • Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 & 2 • Symphonic Dances • Holberg Suite), Bizet (Carmen Suite No. 1 & 2 • L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 & 2 • one more), and works by Fauré, Bruch, Busoni, and Reger. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
OMLCL3: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 3 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2004. Complete clarinet parts (not just first clarinet) to 74 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Brahms (4 Symphonies, 4 Concertos, 18 Hungarian Dances, 2 Serenades, Overtures, Variations on a Theme by Hayden, German Requiem, and more) • Schumann (4 Symphonies, 2 Concertos, 3 Overtures, and more) • Franck (Symphony in D Minor, Symphonic Variations, Psyche) • Liszt (Faust and Dante Symphonies, Les Préludes, 3 Concertos, Hungarian Rhapsodies, Mephisto Waltzes) • plus works by Chabrier, Chausson, Chopin, Lalo, Offenbach, Sarasate and Suppé. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return. 
19.95
OMLCL4: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 4 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2004. Complete clarinet parts to 42 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. This volume includes works by Tchaikovsky (6 Symphonies • 4 Concertos • 4 Suites • 3 Complete Ballets • 1812 Overture • Manfred • Capriccio Italien • Romeo and Juliet • March Slav • and 37 more works); Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition • Night on Bald Mountain • Khovantchina Overture); and Glinka (Overtures: Ruslan and Ludmilla • A Life for the Czar). Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return. 
19.95
OMLCL5: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 5 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2005. Complete clarinet parts to 64 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. This volume includes works by Dvorak (9 symphonies, 3 concertos, 5 overtures, Symphonic Variations, Tone Poems, Romance in F Minor, Serenade for Strings, and more) • Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade, Christmas Eve Suite, Sadko, Tsar's Bride Overture, Capriccio Espagnole, Russian Easter Overture, Procession of the Nobles Le Coq d'Or Suite, 2 symphonies and more) • Borodin (Symphony No. 2, On the Steppes of Central Asia, Polovtsian Dances) • Scriabin (5 symphonies, Piano Concert in F# Minor) • Smetana (Ma Vlast, Bartered Bride Overture and Dances, Hakon Jarl, Richard III, Wallenstein's Camp). Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return. 
19.95
OMLCL6: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 6 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2005. This volume has 81 total works of which 30 have the  complete clarinet parts in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Clarinet parts include works by Mozart (Symphonies 31, 35,39 & 40; 4 piano concertos, 8 overtures, Divertimento No. 1 K.113;  Mass in C minor K. 427;  Requiem K.626; 3 wind serenades (K. 361, K. 375, & K. 388) and Sinfonia Concertante K. 279b) and Haydn (Symphonies 99-101, 103 & 104, The Creation, and The Seasons). Click on the cover image to view the complete Table of Contents for clarinet for this volume in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return. 
19.95
OMLCL7: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 7 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2006. Volume 7 contains 46 orchestral works. This CD has complete clarinet (including E-flat and bass clarinet) parts (a few pieces may be tacet) on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. This volume includes works by Ravel, Elgar, Chadwick, Delius, D'Indy, Dukas, Griffes, Holst, and Nielsen. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents for this volume in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
OMLCL8: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 8 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2007. Volume 8 contains 48 orchestral works. This CD has complete clarinet (including E-flat and bass clarinet) parts (a few pieces may be tacet) on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. This volume includes works by Stravinsky, Bartok, Carpenter, Dohnányi, Enesco, de Falla, Glazunov, Janácek, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Respighi, and Vaughan Williams. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents for this volume in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
OMLCL9: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 9 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2007. Volume 9 contains 50 orchestral works. This CD has complete clarinet (including E-flat and bass clarinet) parts (a few pieces may be tacet) on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. This volume includes works by Bloch (Schelomo), Schoenberg (Chamber Symphony, Pierrot Lunaire, 4 more), Sibelius (17 including Symphonies 1-5, Finlandia, Violin Concerto), J. Strauss (Die Fledermaus, Gypsy Baron Overture, more); R. Strauss (22 including Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, etc.), and Webern (Passacaglia). Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents for this volume in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
OMLCL10: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 10 Clarinet. CD Sheet Music LLC, 2008. Volume 10 contains 53 orchestral works. This CD has complete clarinet parts on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Most of the works on this CD are from Baroque and early Classical Periods so there are only 12 for clarinet. They are from J.S. Bach (an oboe d'amore part), Cimarosa, Gluck, Handel, Hérold, Lully, Méhul, and Rameau. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents for this volume in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Use your browser's Back button to return.
19.95
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NewOMLCLSET: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vols. 1-10 Clarinet. All 10 volumes of the Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library for Clarinet at a discounted price. 
184.95

OMLCLSETa: The Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library Vols. 1-9 Clarinet. Volumes 1-9 of the Orchestral Musician's CD-ROM Library for Clarinet at a discounted price.
Since not all clarinetists will need volume 10 (even though it has some music played frequently such as two versions of the Messiah),
we are continuing to make it possible to order Volumes 1-9 with one click.
166.50
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You may also buy three volumes of your choice for the same instrument for $55.50, four volumes for $73.95, five volumes for $92.50, six volumes for $110.95, seven volumes for $129.50, eight volumes for $147.95, or nine volumes for $166.50. Choose the ones you want and we will apply the discount when we process your order. If you are also using Media Mail shipping (US only) they will be counted as one item for computing shipping charges.

C036: Orchestral Studies for the E-flat Clarinet by Peter Hadcock. Roncorp Publications, SS, 56 pages. This unique book contains excerpts from the most important orchestral repertoire for E-flat clarinet. Works are included by Berlioz, Mahler, Ravel, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and more. Also included is the full D clarinet part for Richard Strauss "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" transposed for E-flat clarinet. The annotations include suggested fingerings. Click on the cover image to view the Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
21.95
C865: Sibelius Symphonie No. 1 Clarinetto I Part by Jean Sibelius. Kalmus, SS, 12 pages. This symphony is in four movements. The first and last movements call for clarinet in A and the middle movements, clarinet in B-flat.
Free Media Mail shipping on this music to US, IF ordered with another item.
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6.95
C042: Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume One by Michael Drapkin, Roncorp Publications, SS, 68 pages. This is the corrected version released in early 2003. This book includes 36 excerpts selected from the standard symphonic literature, some more obscure works with noteworthy bass clarinet solos, and additional pieces that frequently appear on audition lists. Composers include Gershwin, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and more. An number of the excerpts are in bass clef and several are for bass clarinet in A. The author recently noted, "It has been 24 years since the original release, and this reprint provided me the opportunity to make a couple of corrections, most notably the correct transposition of the bass clarinet part to the Berg Violin Concert, as well as some misspellings." Click on the cover image to view Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
21.95
C243: Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume Two by Michael Drapkin. Roncorp Publications, 2004, SS, 64 pages. This volume includes excerpts of works by Barber, Bartok, Copland, Dvorak, Mahler, Musorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg, Schuman, Shostakovich, Strauss, Stravinsky, and Walton. Click on the cover image to view Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
21.95
C740: Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume Three by Michael Drapkin. Roncorp Publications, 2006, SS, 64 pages. The latest volume in this series includes excerpts from works by Barber, Bartok, Bloch, Copland, Dvorak, Grofe, Holst, Janacek, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Respighi, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Webern. Click on the cover image to view Table of Contents.  Use your browser's Back button to return.
21.95

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SRBCSpec: Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet Special. All three volumes of this series at a reduced price.
59.95
C069: Tchaikovsky Symphonies - Clarinet I. Alfred Publishing Co., SS, 94 pages. The complete Clarinet I parts for the six symphonies by Tchaikovsky. Note: The publisher is discontinuing this series and most volumes are sold out.  If you are interested in this book, we suggest you buy it now.
14.95
C043: The Working Clarinetist by Peter Hadcock. Roncorp Publications, 1999. SB, 212 pages. Peter Hadcock, the late Assistant Principal and Eb Clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, describes this book as an attempt to put on paper what he learned during his forty-three years of playing the clarinet. The book is divided into four parts. The first part which represents three quarters of the book is annotated orchestral excerpts many of which are part of the standard audition repertoire. Part 2 covers many technical aspects of clarinet playing such as embouchure, articulation, intonation etc. Part 3 are master classes on Mozart's and Nielsen's clarinet concertos.  The final section has trill and tremolo fingerings.
39.95
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