clarino

[It. a trumpet.]
(Mus.) A reed stop in an organ.

The high register of a trumpet; also (in variants, such as ‘clarion’ and ‘clairon’) kinds of trumpet. The terms go back to the 12th century for long, straight trumpets; later they apparently refer to shorter, narrower-bore instruments. By the Baroque period, ‘clarin’ or ‘clarino’ (sometimes ‘claret’) came to stand for the uppermost trumpet part in an ensemble, and the term was occasionally used in that sense by Bach. It was also used by the Viennese Classical composers. ‘Clarino’ playing implied a singing style in the register from c″ upwards. The same part of the clarinet compass is sometimes described as its ‘clarino’ register.