Wind Chamber Music

Wind chamber music has become an important part of the contemporary wind band program during the past half century, and now a most complete reference text has been written to provide any and all necessary information concerning repertoire. Winther lists over 500 works by instrumentation and provides guidance on timings, difficulty level, publisher sources, available recordings and his own insight into rehearsing and programming each individual work. This book will soon be required reading for every wind conductor and performer!

An invaluable reference work for music teachers, professional and amateur musicians, and music students. This guide lists works in print for woodwind quintet and piano with two to five wind instruments-- flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, or horn. Each entry provides composer birth and death dates, composition date, publisher, nationality, recording availability, instrumentation, length, and general description of the compositional style.

This bibliography covers chamber music for two to 16 winds including flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn. With the exception of a few selections, Secrist-Schmedes, founder of the Pandean Players chamber ensemble, has included only works currently in print. Entries include information on the composer (name, nationality and birth date), the composition, performance and publisher details, and in some cases descriptions of the music or the composer's general style. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A thorough overview and history of chamber music

Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.

l + 386 pagesPerformance parts available.