clarino

American  

[kluh-ree-noh] / kləˈri noʊ /

noun

clarini, plural clarinos plural

1. a valveless trumpet used in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing rapid passages in the high register.

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clarino British  

/ klæˈriːnəʊ /

adjective

1. of or relating to a high passage for the trumpet in 18th-century music

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noun

1. the high register of the trumpet

2. an organ stop similar to the high register of the trumpet

3. a trumpet or clarion

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• clarini
  plural
• clarinos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of clarino

< Italian: trumpet, probably < Spanish clarin < French; see clarinet

Example Sentences

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clarino clarinos

Hans Thamm conducts his Windsbach Boys' Choir and a small ensemble that gets arresting effects with such archaic instruments as the clarino and the theorboe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vox says it used a "clarino" for the part, which sounds more like a clarinet than a trumpet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The word “clarionet” is similarly derived from “clarion,” the English equivalent of clarino.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

Clarinetto is the diminutive of clarino, and the instrument was invented to replace the shrill tones that the trumpet lost as it gained in depth of tone.

From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile

At the beginning of the 18th century in Italy clarinetto, the diminutive of clarino, would be masculine, whereas chiarinetta or clarinetta would be feminine,1 as in Doppelmayr’s account of the invention written in 1730.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

The trumpet is not on so large a caliber, and in the seventeenth century had its own family of two clarinos and three tubas.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various