Meaning & use

Clarino

noun·Academic

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A high, brilliant style of Baroque trumpet playing in the instrument's upper register, or the organ stop imitating it.

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The Baroque trumpeter demonstrated the clarino technique, soaring effortlessly into the instrument's highest notes.

The organ's clarino stop gave the piece a bright, trumpet-like brilliance.

A note on using this word

"Clarino" is the root of the modern word "clarinet," which was originally developed as an instrument that could imitate the clarino trumpet register.

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