Liebesfuß
A Liebesfuß (alternate spelling: Liebesfuss) (German: [ˈliːbəsfuːs]; lit. 'love foot'; French: pavillon d'amour) is a pear- or bulb-shaped element that narrows to a small opening on double reed instruments, such as the oboe d'amore, cor anglais, and heckelphone,[1] as well as on some single-reed instruments, such as the clarinet d'amore. It serves as a damper that gives these musical instruments a characteristically soft timbre.[2][3] It is the eponymous characteristic of the oboe d'amore, which was developed in the baroque period alongside other particularly sweet-sounding instruments, such as the viola d'amore and the clarinet d'amore, which originated around 1740, but died out in the mid-19th century and was later redeveloped on the basis of a basset clarinet in G.[4]
A slightly larger and 90-degree angled love foot, which can be rotated both forwards and backwards, can be found on historical basset clarinets,[5] as well as on a modern basset clarinet that adopts this detail from a historical clarinet, as Charles Neidich did.
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References
[edit]- ^ Verdegem, Stefaan (March 2015). "Fétis, Gevaert, Mahillon and the Oboe d'Amore". The Galpin Society Journal. 68. Galpin Society: 75–120. JSTOR 44083257. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
- ^ "Cor de basset d'amour". Collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis. (in French). 2020.
- ^ Émile Leipp. "Réflexions et expériences sur la clarinette, Bulletin du GAM (Laboratoire Acoustique, Université PARIS VI)" (PDF)..
- ^ Albert R. Rice (1986), "The Clarinette D'Amour and Basset Horn", The Galpin Society Journal (in German), vol. 39, pp. 97–111, doi:10.2307/842136, JSTOR 842136
- ^ Victor-Charles Mahillon (1874), Les Éléments d'acoustique musicale et instrumentale: comprenant l'examen de la construction théorique de tous les instruments de musique en usage dans l'orchestration moderne (in German), Brüssel: Mahillon, retrieved August 11, 2021
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