Annotated Bibliography of Double Wind Quintet Music
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This is a bibliography of music for double wind quintet (also called decet, dectet, decimette, dezett, or tentet) and related works.
The first section consists of music for the most common interpretation of double wind quintet, namely 2 flutes (or piccolo(s)),
2 oboes (or English horn(s)), 2 clarinets (B flat or A), 2 bassoons, and 2 French horns. Click on the alphabet at the top of the page
to move through the list which is arranged alphabetically by the composers last name. Following that section are five
smaller lists of related titles. For instance, the standard dwq plus a solo instrument; the basic dwq plus an additional one or
two instruments (often extra horns or a trumpet or two), etc. Links to these related sections can be found at the end of this
introduction. There are many double wind quintets plus string bass. Sometimes the extra bass is essential and sometimes it can
be, with little detrimental effect, left out. When I determine that an okay performance is possible without it, I put the citation
in both the main list and the supplemental one. Same for when the other instruments are optional, they will go in both places.
Each citation varies somewhat because of the information that I've been able to find, however, what I've tried to
include in each one is:
hot links to a biography of the composer or I write one myself if there isn't one on the Web,
a complete bibliographic citation including title, place of publication, publisher name, date of publication, and series;
length of the piece,
names of movements,
description of the piece including the difficulty level if it can be determined,
information about the commissioning of the piece, who premiered it and when, and any recordings that are available,
and, links to distributors where people can obtain the piece.
Site created and maintained by Cate Gerhart.
Currently this is a work-in-progress and is being edited as often as possible, sometimes daily! I would love to hear from anyone
using the site concerning what they found helpful or not, and what information they might like to have that isn't there. Special
thanks to Paul Schlossman who has kindly shared with me information about recordings of some of the pieces below that he has in
his extensive collection of wind music recordings.
before an entry indicates that I own a copy of the piece, or, know someone that does and can answer questions about the piece if they aren't
answered in the bibliography.
Site first appeared on the WWW June 21, 2005, last edited Decenber 10, 2015. At last count, lists about 360 for regular dwq and
about 127 pieces for related instrumentation.
One of the most successful songwriters of the early part of the era of the modern Brazilian
song. His song "Tico Tico no Fub" ("Tico-tico Bird in the Cornmeal") was popularized in the US as "Tico Tico".
On a list of dwq music of the group Orion Winds. I still need to follow up with them to see who arranged and other such details.
Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for a concert featuring its wind players at Carnegie Recital Hall,
New York, on December 16th, 1984.
Composer's facsimile ed.
Duration: 10 min.
Recorded live at Concordia College by the Sylvan Winds in May 1997 and released on Composers Recordings (CRI) in 1998. Available on Amazon.com.
Also available from New World Records.
Includes extra parts for E flat clarinet substituting for the 2nd oboe and an optional string bass part.
This is an arrangement of the 3rd piece of Albéniz' piano work 'Suite Española', opus 47. It was first
played at a woodwind course run by the bassoonist Kerry Camden. A fun piece to play and listen to of moderate difficulty.
A neo-classical theme with six variations displaying all the colors, beautiful solos, gusto and lyricism of this medium.
Duration: 11 min., 30 sec.
Playable by a reasonably good group with a conductor. Playing without a conductor would require better players since there is
some tricky meter and tempo changes.
"Composed originally for a centenary concert of the Morley College London, 1984. First performed: June 1st 1984 Morley
College Wind Group, conductor, Lawrence Leonard"--Page [68] in composers hand.
Duration: 28 min.
Manuscript resides in London in the British Music Information
Centre. In that copy pasted to the inside cover is a typewritten note listing the movements and giving the following information:
Prelude and choral (using the ensemble as a whole)
Concertino (Five variations in the shape of three arias and two ritornelli, featuring solo instruments or groups- oboe solo
two horns- flute soli- cor anglais and bassoons- clarinet and bass clarinet, soli.
Antiphony (Finale in which the ensemble is divided antiphonally into two wind quintets.
"Note: Vista was composed for an amateur group of performers. The wind group or 'serenade' was typically a baroque instrument
of entertainment, and it suggested the possibility of an essay in a classical style, which the composer was anxious to deploy as
a reaction against a number of years of composition mainly in somewhat complex serial methods of the post-Webern era. The
nostalgia for a work using classical methods of constructive symmetry was compared by the composer, in the programme-note of the first
performance, to an architect who had been working for years in steel and concrete looking through the trees at a vista of Kenwood House on
Hampstead Heath, and wishing for an opportunity of building something, even on a small scale in that style."
This piece has a jazzy feel, being influenced by the Gerry Mulligan song Soft shoe.
Commissioned by Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz and premiered in 1997 by a group of young
musicians under the direction of Ulrich Freund (bassoonist with the Staatsphilharmonie Ludwigshafen).
Not too difficult a piece, playable by young advanced musicians or good amateurs, not just for professionals.
I didn't find a nice biography to link to so here's some information from some program notes I've found.
Arp is a German composer, teacher, conductor and performs on piano and double bass. He has held positions in Hamburg, Koblenz,
and Mainz, as well as guest appearances around the world.
Avoni, Petronio, 1790-
Armonia : variazioni prese da un mottivo [sic] di Paisiello : in Bflat / Avoni.
The variations numbered 2,4,6,8,10,11,13,15,18, and 20 are for standard dwq with no doublings, the other
variations include two trumpets and a bass trombone.
Manuscript held in the Civico Museo Bibliografico-Musicale in Bologna.
Michael is an English conductor, woodwind coach, flutist in the group
Compendium, and prolific arranger of double wind quintet music. He distributes all his own arrangements and
can be reached at: axtellmusic@googlemail.com. His mailing address is: Church Cottage, Parsonage Lane, Icklesham, East Sussex, TN36 4BL
Composed in 1979 for the Southampton Concert Orchestra Wind Ensemble, this work was chosen in 1981
to be performed in Rome at the International Festival of Women in Music.
This edition was prepared and typeset in 2004 by Laurence Perkins with the help of the composer incorporating revisions
in orchestration and editing that had been made in 1999.
Duration: 15 min.
The piece is in five movements, Prelude, March, Cantilena, Scherzo, and Postlude.
Subtitle on 1st page of music: A virtuosity for double wind quintet. "For the Rondel Ensemble"--At head of caption title.
Lance Baker is the son of Ruth Gipps and clarinetist Robert Baker. He plays horn and composes. Tickerage Press was Lance's
mother's own publishing company. This piece was originally written as a companion piece for Gipps' Wind sinfonietta which
also has an optional tam tam part which Lance played as first horn of the Rondel Ensemble. Interestingly, when this was performed the two horns sat in
the middle with a wind quintet arrangement on either side.
Doubles on piccolo (flute 2), English horn (replaces the 2nd oboe), alto sax (only when clarinet in A isn't available to the clarinet
1), bass clarinet (clarinet 2), and the horn 2 plays the optional tam tam.
While this piece is partly variations on this folk song, it is also partly new material. A fairly difficult piece only
playable by professionals and very good amateurs.
Duration: about 15 min.
This piece is also listed in the
British Music Information Centre directory with the title "Double wind quintet on Blow the wind southerly".
Premiered in about 1995 by the Rondel Ensemble, a group of professional musicians of which the composer played 1st horn.
In addition to the score of this work the
British Music Information Centre also lists a recording of this work by the Rondel Ensemble.
Taught at Julliard and the American University (Washington, D.C.)
Bardwell, William, 1915-1994.
Antiphony.
W. Bardwell, 1968.
The British Music Information Centre has a recording of this
piece which I listened to on 22 October 2007. I'm not absolutely certain because the cataloging is a bit strange, but I think
the recording is of Music Projects London at St. John Smith Square, there's not a date but there is clapping on the tape so it was
a live concert. It begins very stridently and dissonantly in the first movement but in the second
and third movements the piece takes a more consonant and melodic direction. The third movement is playful with the various
instruments playing off each other like a game of tag.
Duration: 14 min.
Manuscript score and parts are held at the BBC Library. I have not had a chance to follow up and verify this.
Beaumont, Adrian, 1937-
Concerto for double wind quintet / Adrian Beaumont.
Isle of Lewis, Scotland : Vanderbeek and Imrie, Ltd. (15 Marvig, Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Scotland PA86 9QP), 1967.
Written in 1967 and premiered by the Bristol University Orchestra wind section. It was subsequently substantially revised in
1998 for the Wind Ensemble of the Wells Cathedral School but was never performed in it's revised form.
This piece is neo-baroque in spirit and the two quick movements use ritornello form, with the ritornellos being
played by all ten instruments and solo sections being scored for a variety of smaller groupings. The Andante is
largely fugal. The general idiom of the piece is expanded tonality, with all twelve notes used freely with no distinction
between major and minor but always with a tonal center.
Not terribly difficult, playable by a good amateur group.
Duration: 17 min.
Lento/Allegro
Andante
Allegro giocoso
Since there isn't a good biography to link to on the Web, here's a short bio: Adrian is from Yorkshire, England.
He studied music at the University College in Cardiff, graduated in 1958, master's in 1961, and doctorate in 1972. He is
an oboist as well as conductor and composer. He conducted the Bristol Opera and founded the Bristol Bach Choir which
he conducted until 1978. He was on the staff of the Music Department of Bristol University from 1961 to 2002 and is a frequent
conductor of its' Symphony Orchestra and Choral Society as well as the New Music Ensemble. Married to Janet Price (soprano) since 1963, he's written many
pieces for her, as well as pieces for other genres with the exception of opera. Retired since 2002, he spends time gardening and
fell-walking when he isn't composing.
This is a very easy arrangement of two minuets. I haven't timed them but they are very short,
maybe two minutes each. Each minuet is the standard 8 bar phrase repeated, there are four phrases.
This piece is recorded on a CD entitled Autumnal / music by G. Bellucci. It is performed on the
recording by the Insieme a fiati 'Rossini' di Pesaro, conducted by the composer. Recorded at Recanati, Aula Magna, on June 24, 1979.
The CD is available from Dr. Giovanni Grano Via B. Cairoli, 27 85028 Rionero in V. (PZ - Italy) Email: kisgra@tin.it Tel. +39-0972-723514 Mob. +39(0)349-5204173.
Although I know this exists through contact with Kaleidoscope Wind, we've been unable to find out if a copy is available. I've
been informed by someone that was there, that it was written and performed at Morley College quite a few years ago. He's checking
into the fate of the wind music that used to be there, but in the meantime if anyone finds some information about this, please
contact me at: gerhart@u.washington.edu.
Reflections on a sixteenth century tune : for double wind quintet / Richard Rodney Bennett.
Chester/Novello, 1999
This piece is based on the sixteenth century French popular song "A l'ombre d'un buissonet" first printed in "La Couronne
et Fleur" (1556). Originally written for a large string orchestra, commissioned for the 1999 International Youth String Orchestra
at the ESTA Conference in Portsmouth, it was transcribed by the composer for a double wind quintet, with second flute and oboe
doubling piccolo and cor Anglais, second clarinet playing bass clarinet, second bassoon on double bassoon.
This piece is a romp through the musical periods (starting with cavemen), using "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as the theme.
One performer is the main narrator, but each performer introduces a different musical period. Some singing and much "hamming it
up" is required! Some examples are "Yankee Doodle" blended with "Ode to Joy", "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", "In the Mood", and "The Rite of Spring".
It was written in 1997 for and performed by the U.S. Air Force Band of the West Chamber Players. They performed it on many concerts
with much success.
Portraits of the odyssey : for ten winds / Stacey Berk.
Berk, 1998.
A difficult piece but fun to listen to because of it's programmatic nature, this piece has the instrumentalists doubling
on percussion instruments. Flute 1 doubles on piccolo and alto flute, flute 2 plays the triangle, oboe 1 plays the woodblock with
soft mallets, oboe 2 doubles on English horn, clarinet 1 also plays bamboo wind chimes, clarinet 2 doubles on bass clarinet,
bassoon 1 plays finger cymbals and 2 plays an egg shaker, horn 1 an bell tree, and horn 2 a cymbal with stick.
Premiered by the U.S. Air Force Band of the West Chamber Players.
Duration: 16 min.
I. Cyclops - a one-eyed man-eating giant who is blinded by Odysseus
II. Circe's Cottage - Where men feast jovially before being turned into pigs
III. Halls of Hades - Land of the Dead
IV. Sirens - Sea nymphs whose singing enchants men to their deaths
V. Scylla & Charybdis - a terrifying six-headed monster and deadly whirlpool
VI. Calypso's Lament - A beautiful island goddess whose love for Odysseus is unrequited
VII. Ithaca - Odysseus' home, where he battles the townsmen to regain his castle and wife
Available from the composer at: http://www.berkworks.com
This lovely piece features the oboe. It is a one movement work that moves through a number of moods. The first 16 bars are
a slow introduction following by a lengthy middle section at a quick tempo. After this middle section in duple meter, it moves
to the ending in a triple meter which begins slowly but then speeds up for an exciting fast ending.
Written in October 1988 and dedicated to "amici dell'Ensemble di strumenti a fiato "Ch Gounod" dell Orchestra da Camera de Pesars".
I haven't timed the piece yet but it between 5 and 10 minutes long.
Serenade for wind instruments : for 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
= Serenade für Blasinstrumente / Arthur Bird ; [edited by Gunther Schuller].
[S.l.] : Margun Music ; Delaware Water Gap, PA : Distributed by Shawnee Press, Inc., c1985.
1 score (124 p.) + 10 parts.
Duration: 25 min.
Written in 1898, this piece (op. 40) won the Paderewski Prize in 1901 for the best chamber music work by an American composer.
It was premiered by Georges Longy and his Woodwind Club in Boston on March 31, 1902. It's first European performance was in 1908 in Berlin.
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro assai
IV. Allegro energico
Recorded by the North Texas Chamber Players on Klavier Wind Recordings, KCD-11071.
This piece was written in 1889 by the first American to become famous in Europe. Although he was born in
Massachusetts he lived and worked most of his life in Berlin. This piece is a beautiful example of late romantic writing for winds.
Allegro moderato
Andante
Allegretto quasi allegro
Allegro con fuoco.
Recorded by the North Texas Chamber Players on Klavier Wind Recordings, KCD-11071.
Estnische Tänze : op. 9 für 10 Blaser / Boris Blacher.
Berlin : Bote & Bock, 1935.
The Grove Music Online lists this work as being unpublished and destroyed (possibly during World War II), so alas, we may never
be able to play it unless somehow a copy survived.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in A, 2 horns in F and 2 bassoons.
Written in 1988 and commissioned by Currents, University of Richmond, Dr. Fred Cohen, artistic
director. Is is both stimulating and challenging in its rhythmic, melodic and expressive range.
It allows all instruments a chance to shine, either singly, in pairs, or in varying ensemble combinations.
Duration: 17 min.
Recorded by Currents New Music Ensemble on Centaur Records (CRC 2248).
Two American sketches : for woodwind choir / Orrin Blattner.
[New York] : M. Witmark, c1942.
1 score (10 p.) + 10 parts ; 31 cm. (The Witmark instrumental library)
Dedicated to the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America and Thomas Eagan of the San Jose State College.
1. Rural -- 2. Urban.
Publisher's no.: 20320-29.
While I haven't been able to find a copy of this for sale, there are 15 libraries in the United
States that hold it. I won't list them all here but they are spread around the country from California
to Maryland to Florida to Minnesota. I was successful in borrowing a copy and have made a copy for private use until I find a copy for sale.
There isn't a biography on the Web, but I found an obituary for Orrin that reads: Orrin James "Fess" Blattner of
Saratoga, 88, died Feb. 23 of heart failure. Blattner received his bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jos State
University. He bought his home in Saratoga in 1954, where he lived for 52 years. Proficient on more than 20 instruments,
Blattner taught music at Los Gatos High School from 1944 to 1977, and arranged many works. He was a member of the San
Jose Symphony, both as a trombone player and as the assistant conductor. He was also president of the San Jose Musicians
Union Local 153 from 1959 to 1987. He was a bandleader all throughout his adult life, including the Gem City Jazz Band
in the Bay Area and the Colorado River Jazz Patrol in Arizona.
Pastorale from Sym. 25 / Boccherini ; arr. by Thomas Stone.
New Glarus, Wisconsin : Daehn Publications, 2006.
I don't see a Web presence for this publisher or a distributor for them, but their contact information is:
312 Ninth Ave. New Glarus, WI 53574 Phone: 608/527-2923
Boehm, Yohanan, 1914-1986.
Divertimento for ten wind instruments / Yohanan Boehm.
Tel-Aviv : Israeli Music Pub., 1975.
1 score (26 p.) ; 24 cm.
Dated March 15, 1957.
Title on manuscript: Divertimento opus 20 : for ten windinstruments.
Duration: 21 min.
Facsmile score.
Publisher's no.: 87.
1. Moderato-Allegro con spirito
2. Allegro
3. Tranquillo
4. Allegro molto
5. Andantino
6. Allegro con brio
I found this listed in a print source as published by Southern Music but I haven't been able to verify that yet.
There doesn't seem to be a good biography of Yohanan on the Web but I did find that he was born in Breslau,
and emigrated to Israel in 1936 where he lived the rest of his life primarily being a music critic for the Jerusalem Post.
Recorded by the Vientos de la Orquesta Sinfonica de Jerusalen, directed by Gary Bertini. I found this listed
on the program of a radio station that didn't list the record company. If you know of this recording, please let me know.
Adds a contrabassoon to the basic double wind quintet.
Duration: 18 min.
Bois is a Dutch composer primarily self taught. He practiced law as a profession until 1994. The Grove Music Online
article about him says his works show a rare talent for musical comedy as well as a habit of boldly exploring the possibilities of avant-garde matter in a joyful manner.
Bolcer, John.
Arranger, librarian, and horn player in Chinook Winds. He's arranged the following for the group:
Both flutes double on piccolo although the arranger indicates that the second flute part could, if absolutely necessary be played on flute.
Slow and fast sections and a brisk middle section which uses 2 piccolos. There is a brief extract to listen to on the publisher Web sited linked above.
This arrangment has an optional contrabassoon part. Also the 2nd flute doubles piccolo.
Variations and a fugue on a theme by Handel was originally written for piano and is based on the Handel
tune Harmonious blacksmith which is originally the Aria con variazioni from the 2nd collection of the
Suites for harpsichord. Tony has chosen to arrange those variations that suit wind instruments the
best without departing too much from the original, so the piece is somewhat shorter than the original.
Duration: 15 min.
Brakkee, Stefaan.
French horn, pianist, and arranger from the Netherlands.
Pan suite : für 10 Blasinstrumente und Kontrabass / von Max Brauer.
Virginia Water, England : One Dee Press, [19--?]
1 score (101 p.) + 11 parts.
"A satisfactory performance by wind decet can be achieved without Kontrabass if C/bass cues in parts are played"--T.p. of One Dee Press edition.
Click on each movement name to hear a recording of that movement. This recording is of a
live concert given by Chinook Winds in June 2008 at the Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle, Wash.
I don't see a biography of Brauer on the Web so here's what I could find about him. He was born in Mannheim on May 9, 1855 and
died in Karlsruhe on December 2, 1918. He was primarily a conductor and had studied with Vincenz Lachner and a variety of people
at Cologne University. In 1880 he conducted the Cäcilienvereins at Kaiserslautern and in 1888 Hofkirche at Karlsruhe wher he
founded a Bach Society in 1905. He also wrote operas and string music.
I don't see this piece listed in the Breitkopf catalog but the One Dee Press edition can be had by phoning Roy Penny at:
(+44) 01932 562383.
Commissioned by Bedfordshire Orchestra Society, and performed by the Bedford Sinfonia in January 1999.
Lucid alternates between gentle, predominantly chordal music, and a wilder, sometimes harsh and more linear style.
Sometimes the ten wind players function as two separate wind quintets, one group echoing the other's phrases or
adding colour to a particular moment in a paragraph. At other times, they function as a more homogenous group.
Throughout the piece, all players are of equal importance, the second player having material that is as demanding
as the first.
Lucid is a purely abstract piece of music, inspired by nothing but the clear, colourful sounds of wind instruments, and the forms and textures of music itself. Its title, with its connotations of light and clarity, is simply the first of the four words at the top of the score which direct the performers as to the style of the first section - 'Lucid, gentle, but lively'.
Some different carols : for wind decet / traditional, arranged by Jonathan Burton.
2007.
This piece was written for Jonathan's quintet, who every Christmas gets together with another quintet for a
decet session with mulled wine and mince pies. They play the Raff Sinfonietta which they love and a few other things, finishing
up playing rather terrible quintet arrangements of Christmas carols, two to a part. The players always wanted to know '
Why can't we have some different carols?' so at Christmas 2007 Jonathan turned up with this piece. The first flautist was
having a 60th birthday, so the last movement is a surprise for him (written in such a way that he can't see what's coming). When
Jonathan mentioned this last bit to me and should he delete the birthday bit, I said he should leave it
in since, after all, it is a birthday that we celebrate at Christmas so it makes sense to have it there.
Duration: ca. 11 minutes.
Christmas carols arranged in eight movements:
1 - The Mediaeval One (Gaudete)
2 - The Basque one (Ator, ator)[erroneously listed as `Atoz, atoz'-my mistake]
3 - The French one (Il est n, le divin enfant)
4 - The Old English one (The Coventry Carol)
5 - The One About The Holly (from Cornwall)
6 - The Other French one (Nous voici dans la ville)
7 - The Other Mediaeval One (The Boar's Head Carol)
8 - The Very Traditional One (Dies natalis tibi felicitatis)
Found this listed in: Wind ensemble literature, 2nd ed., rev. 1975 / by Reynolds ... [et al.] Haven't found any other mention
of it however. Other than indicating that it's for standard dwq this is all that's listed. This publication is somewhat suspect
in my view since just below this entry the two Arthur Bird pieces, Suite and Serenade, are listed as by William Byrd. I'll keep looking
for verification that an arrangement of a Byrd Pavane exists or existed.
Variations on the tune Walsingham / William Byrd ; arranged by Maurice Hodges.
Leeds : Woodwind Plus, c1993.
This was a popular tune during the Renaissance which Byrd arranged and notated for keyboard. There's a nice
MIDI recording available online if you'd like to get an idea what the tune is. Click here
and search for Walsingham on the page.
Written in 1901 and first performed by the Societe de Musique on March 9, 1901, this piece was most likely inspired by the World's Fair which was held in Paris in 1900.
This piece has three movements, Scharki (Chant d'amour), Nihavend, Iskia samaisi.
If you're interested in the manuscript of this piece, it is held at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Recorded by:
Calamus Ensemble on Dabringhaus & Grimm CD MDG 603 0599.
Written at the request of Lawrence Leonard of the Morley Wind Group,
this piece is a tribute to Ruth Gipps, 1921-1999. This piece is serious, melodic with modern harmonies.
Contains three movements: Andante, Scherzando, Lento (a prayer to Allegretto)
Symphony for winds (1988-9) : for double wind quintet / Chandler Carter.
New York City : Kremer Music Publishing, 1989.
Originally wrriten for Dana Paul Perma and the Holzblazer double wind quintet. Performed June 6, 1993 by the Quintet of the Americas and the Latin American Wind Quintet at the Weill Recital Hall.
This three movement piece is difficult, requiring good college players or excellent amateurs. It is easier to
perform with a conductor.
Duration: 16-18 min.
1. Variations
2. Passacaglia
3. Toccatta
For information on getting a copy of this piece, contact the composer at: lcc2@earthlink.net.
London sketches : petite suite humoristique pour instruments à vent / Francis Casadesus.
Paris : Deiss Editeur ; Cincinnati : Albert J. Andraud Woodwind Music, c1932.
1 score (19 p.) + 10 parts.
Three movement programmatic piece: I. The policeman in the zoo -- II. Trafalgar Square idyll -- III. Hyde Park (children play).
This piece is out of print and impossible to find for sale. It resides in a few libraries so if you'd like to see a copy without the rental fee
you'll need to find it there.
Pictures from life at a music center including scales and tuning. Suite written to celebrate the removal of the Kent Music
School Tonbridge Centre to more commodious premises in 1975. A piece not to be taken too seriously, it depicts, somewhat wryly,
and with special references to wind teaching, the history of the original music centre from its foundation in 1962.
1. Les gammes: Scales are the foundation of wind playing; they progress from tentative examples in simple keys to arpeggios
and chromatics and a triumphantly secure conclusion.
L'accord: Intonation-always a problem. This slow movement is preoccupied (not entirely successfully) with finding a true oboe A.
Les eaux: In 1968 the Centre became disastrously engulfed in the river Medway after a rainfall of 8.5 inches in 16 hours. The
Scherzo depicts the drama of this.
Le déménagement: The Finale represents the triumphal procession to the splendid new premises, not without nostalgic
backward glances.
Mozart more(or less)s : bicentenary tribute / Graham Coatman.
1991.
This one movement piece was written for the Mozart bicentenary. It uses a number of Mozart
quotes and tags in a playful and minimalist way. It could easily be played by good amateur or student players.
Composed for Bradford University Mozart Bicentenary Concert and first performance on May 25 1991 at the
Bradford Cathedral by the Bradford University wind ensemble.
Duration: 5 min.
Not published commercially, but available from the composer. See his Website above.
Converse, F. S. (Frederick Shepherd), 1871-1940.
Adagio for wood winds and 2 horns / F.S. Converse.
1 ms. score (14 p.) + parts.
Manuscript is in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Composed 1897.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
Down a country lane / Copland ; arranged by Richard Maynes.
Die Nacht im Walde / Dalayrac ; arranged by Schmitt.
Manuscript in the Fürst Thurn und Taxis'sche Hofbibliothek, Regensburg.
Darke, Harold.
Organ preludes / Harold Darke ; arranged for wind dectet by Graham Darke.
[2009?]
Davey, Janet.
End piece.
[S.l.] : J. Davey, ????
For double wind quintet and tape.
The performers are required to start stop-watches at the beginning of the piece in order to play in exact synchronisation with the tape.
One quintet need to be in the same room as the audience, and the other outside the room, but audible to the audience.
Duration: 8 min.
E-mail composer at jan.davey@talk21.com to determine availability.
Gilbert is a bassoonist/contrabassoonist living in New York City who has been working with a double wind
quintet, the Metropolitan Soloists, for a number of years. He has made the following arrangements, mostly for dwq + an additional bass instrument:
The second of Frederick Delius's 'Two Pieces For Small Orchestra'. A very atmospheric piece, which requires really
soft playing much of the time. You may prefer not to mute the horns. Difficulty level is difficult/professional, grade 7-8+
New edition of this charming work in an Italian overture style. The original did not have a 2nd flute which is added here, as well as an optional string bass part.
Duration: ca. 5 min.
Dott, Hans-Peter.
Dinner for ten : menu für 10 Bläser, aus fremden Töpfen frisch auf den Tisch / Hans-Peter Dott.
Written in the form of a prelude, theme and variations.
Prelude: Bach-Forelle Mullerin ("Alles Mullerin oder was...?")
Fugue: Pigeon blanc sur la sauce "Chasseur de Palattina" (Fugue chromatique avec une scene dramatique oblige)
Variations: Insalata mista, attaca
Coda: Tutto formagio
Duyn, Willem, 1922-
Rhapsody for double wind quintet : 1989/90 / Willem Duyn.
This piece is listed in a catalog of the the Swedish Music Information Centre (SMIC) with W. Hansen as
the publisher but I couldn't find this piece listed on W. Hansen web site.
Duration: 16 min.
Recorded on the Caprice record label (CAP 21447) by a wind ensemble conducted by Bo Holten.
Originally written in 1999, this is a light-hearted, 7 movement piece of contrasting miniatures.
Flute I doubles on piccolo; oboe II on English horn; and, clarinet II on bass clarinet.
Commissioned by the Wells Cathedral School Wind Ensemble, Kevin Murphy,
conductor, with funds provided by the Friends of Music at Wells Cathedral
School. Premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester UK on March 26, 1999 as
part of the 18th BASBWE Conference. The London premiere was given by the same performers at St John's Smith
Square on June 25, 1999.
Duration: ca. 18 min.
1. Aubade
2. Toccatina
3. 'Eine kleine Wiener-Waltzer
4. Notturno
5. Scherzettino
6. Siesta
7. 'Doctor Murphy - His Burlesque'
Ellington, Duke.
Sophisticated lady / Ellington ; arranged by ????
Elmer, Roderick, 1947-
The inn on the heath / by Roddy Elmer.
Originally written in 1980 as an historical music play for voice and piano. Later parts of the musical were
rewritten for double wind quintet. It is very tonal with the music descriptive of the moods in the play. The tunes
are singable by 11 year olds.
This piece was played by various groups at the summer school at Little Benslow Hills, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Later, in 2002 part of the suite was played by New Harmonie in Horsham, Sussex.
Duration, ca. 30 min.
Roddy studied music at Manchester University, taught in schools in London and Kent, and has a special
interest in the Kodaly method. He plays the horn and piano and writes compositions for string orchestra,
choral works, a string quartet and many works for wind ensembles and chamber groups. He lives in north London and
teaches Junior School. He plays badminton, rambles on the weekends, assistant leader in the Scouts and organist on
Sundays.
Roddie is really busy now, but someday he hopes to have time to make his music available... stay tuned.
Elmer, Roderick, 1947-
Scarlatti suite / Roddy Elmer.
Written in 2006, Roddy is still working on the third and final movement.
Duration: ca. 15 min.
Roddy is really busy now, but someday he hopes to have time to make his music available... stay tuned.
Elmer, Roderick, 1947-
Theme and variations in G minor for double wind quintet / Roddy Elmer.
Written in 1998-2000, it was originally played by friends at the summer school at Benslow. Although rehearsed
by a couple other groups it has yet to have an official public performance.
The theme is hymn-like with 16 variations in a wide variety of moods and tempi. The keys of the variations vary
as well, some in G major and other related keys.
Duration: ca. 23 min.
Roddy is really busy now, but someday he hopes to have time to make his music available... stay tuned.
A Romanian by birth, this piece was written in Paris in 1906 (although the preface in the Compusic edition says 1904) when
Enescu was 25 years old. In Paris at the time flutist Taffanel and others gave regular concerts of wind music, of which this was
surely a valuable addition. Three movement piece with a romantic character with folk elements intertwined.
One oboe doubles on English horn in this piece.
Recorded by:
Members of the Romanian National Orchestra on Olympia OCD 445.
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Lawrence Foster conducting on Claves CD 50-8803.
Compusic edition available from: York, England : Emerson
I'm not sure which edition Dorn or Muramatsu distributes but they both have one of them:
The players are arranged in two groups, a wind quintet in each, which form a unit. It is one movement
with one tempo marked Allegro vicace in the time signature 9/16.
Duration: ca. 5-6 min.
Catalog no.: D. 15 578 (parts), D. 15 579 (score)
Ivan was born in Budapest, Hungary, but lived most of this musical life in Austria.
Written in the summer of 2007, this piece by a Russian composer in four parts.
Duration: 9 min., 18 sec.
Available from the publisher, contact Maria Cook (e-mail: mariapetrenko@gmail.com or
mpetrenko@compozitor.spb.ru (delivery of messages to this e-mail have been prolematic, so prefer
the gmail e-mail if possible) or phone: (7 812) 571-15-95.
Written around 1790 this piece has 4 movements, although I haven't discoved what the names are yet. The manuscript parts
are located in a private collection in Universitätsbibliothek in Augsburg (Harburg über Donauwörth,
Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein 'sche Bibliothek; HR III 4 1/2 4 472))
Lettera sopra il candore della luna / Carlo Forlivesi.
1st version, 1997
Commissioned by the Milan Conservatory Artistic Committee for Incontri Musicali, this piece was first played
on December 19, 1997 in the Puccini Hall, Milan by Incontri Musicali, Decimino di fiati del Conservatorio di Milano,
conducted by Lino Brandolini.
Duration: 10 min.
2nd version, 2000
Nominated for the 30th International Jeunesses Musicales in Belgrade, this pieces was first performed March 30, 2000 at the Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade.
Fanfare and three masquerades : for horn solo and wind nonet / Malcolm Forsyth.
Ricordi, 1979.
Toronto : E.C. Kerby, 1983.
1 score (28 p.) + 10 parts ; 28 cm.
This piece was funded by the Canada Council and written at the request of John Ellis, hornist in the Bläser-Ensemble
Mainz. Premiered by Ellis and the Bläser-Ensemble Mainz at the music festival in Weilburg Germany.
Written to be performed outside, it begins with with a bright, opening in the style of a fanfare (Hear ye! Achtung!) that
would get the attention of the audience who might be otherwise distracted by the beautiful weather, friends and neighbors, or picnic
food. The three masquerades that follow each use the idiom of either Brahms, Miaskovsky and Schumann to create a tonal but
interesting piece. The parody of each composer contain actual quotations as well as elaborations and disguises.
Duration: 11 min., 30 sec.
Fanfare
I. J.B. Allegro con brio
II. N.M. Andante con moto
III. R.S. Leggero
J.B. uses Brahms' Second Symphony theme, N.M., a not so well known Russian composer, uses his Cello Concerto, and, R.S. uses the
odd rhythm from the Piano concerto written for his wife.
This was originally written by Gardner for piano (op. 1) in 1962 then arranged by him for dwq in 1989.
This is a tonal piece that would be easy enough for students and amateurs. It was premiered on August 6, 1991 by the
National Youth Wind Orchestra soloists at Winchester Cathedral.
Duration: 12-13 min.
1. Morning
2. The Round Pond
3. Kites
4. The Peter Pan Statue
5. The Serpentine Fountains
6. The Dutch Garden
7. Kensington Palace
Catalog no.: PP 503.
ISMN: M-57016-633-6
The copy I examined at the BMIC on 22 October 2007 was entitled Suite Kensington Gardens for wind ensemble : op. 1a, 1990.
The citation above is for the published Phylloscopus edition.
Garofalo, Robert Joseph.
Professor of music at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., conductor, and editor of:
Adagio and allegretto in the manner of Saltarello / Leon Gastinel.
Fetis supplement.
Found this listed in: Wind ensemble literature, 2nd ed., rev. 1975 / by Reynolds ... [et al.] Doesn't give instrumentation,
just says "wind ensemble (10)" so I still need to try and verify that the 10 are dwq instruments.
Essentially a theme with multiple diverse variations, this piece outlines the misadventures on
the high seas of the obscure Onion People.
A fun piece to play by amateurs as well as professional musicians.
Written in the summer of 2005 for Ned's wife on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary and premiered at their
anniversary party on September 9, 2005 by the Chinook Winds double wind quintet.
European premiere by Kaleidoscope Wind
in London on November 19, 2005.
Duration: 5 min., 30 sec.
ISMN: M-9012010-4-0
Available from:
Ned Gerhart Publications (this also includes
a recording of the piece as performed by Chinook Winds at a concert in June 2006)
La danse étrange de Sergueï Ivanovitch : two wind quintets / Nicolas Gilbert.
Bicester, Oxfordshire, England : Edition HH, c2004.
Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando:
the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past preparation.
Premiered March 21, 2002 at the glise St-Marc, Montreal by the Ensemble à vent du Conservatoire de musique de Montreal.
Duration: 9 min.
A number of distributors for this piece are listed on the publishers web site.
Grand variations and theme on the Mavis tune for double wind quintet.
D. Gillingham, 1998.
This piece is only available from the composer (see his web site linked above). It is a technically
challenging piece that is mostly tonal with occasional dissonance. It is in the form of theme and variations,
starting with the last variation and ending with the theme, the Central Michigan University Alma Mater.
Written in 1998 for the opening of the Tuma Lobby in the in School of Music at Central Michigan University
and premiered the same year on April 5.
There is also a new edition of this edited by Rodney Winther (who added an optional string bass part) and published by Warner
Bros. Available from: The Sheet-Music-Store.com, 2005.
The BMIC has a recording on compact disc recorded by Kaleidoscope Wind at a live concert
at St Cyprian's Church in London on 20th March 2003.
For flute, flute 2/piccolo, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 2 horns (one of which plays the tamtam (the
tam tam part is written in both horn parts).
Written in 1989 for the Rondel Ensemble. The first horn player in this group was Lance Baker, Ruth's son, who told me,
when we corresponded about this piece and the companion piece he wrote, that he played the tam tam part on the first performance.
Glazunov ballet scenes / Alexander Glazunov ; transcribed for double wind quintet by Monte C. Grise.
For 2 flutes (flute I doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (oboe II double on English horn), 2 clarnets (Bflat and A), 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and optional string bass.
Glazunov composed Scènes de ballet, op. 52 in 1894 and this work makes up the majority of the transcription. The one movement not
from op. 52 is the third, Pastorale, which is from the Suite caracteristique op. 9.
This arrangement was made as part of the arrangers research project at James Madison University as part of his Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in the School of Music, May 2012.
Duration: 19-20 min.
I. Mazurka -- II. Marionnettes -- III. Pastorale -- IV. Scherzino -- V. Danse orientale -- VI. Polanaise.
The American Composers Alliance only has a facsimile of the manuscript score for this piece.
There doesn't seem to be a published copy of the score and parts.
Commissioned by a Consortium of USA High Schools. Premiered in Minneapolis, Minn. in November 2004.
Duration: 15 min.
This piece was originally conceived during an exercise Gorb set for his students,
which was to write a variation for double wind quintet on the Bach keyboard prelude in C, BVW 939.
He subsequently took this same prelude and used it as a basis for a kind of Baroque suite for the same combination.
The six movements of the work follow the model of the Baroque French suite.
The first movement is an Overture featuring an angular introduction followed by a fugato in 5/4 time,
followed by a stately Allemande led by flute and bassoon, a lively Courante in fast triple time,
a mournful Sarabande featuring solo oboe and horn and a Gavotte that also pays homage to Neo-classicism.
The piece ends with a Gigue, which makes much use of canonic writing. This piece has a certain degree of
flexibility in the instrumentation, the two horn parts can be played on saxophones,
the second bassoon can be played on a bass clarinet and the oboe 2 part on a clarinet.
Tambourin / by Gossec ; arranged for double wind quintet by Michael Axtell.
England : Magic Flute Publications, c1995.
1 score (5 p.) + 10 parts.
One of the flutes in this arrangement plays only piccolo.
Originally written for orchestra, this piece is a moderate to easy (depending on how fast you
end up taking it!) arrangement that makes an excellent encore piece. I has a charming, lighthearted melody that fits winds perfectly.
Duration: 1 min., 40 sec.
Only available from the arranger at: axtellmusic@googlemail.com
Funeral march of a marionette / Gounod ; Peter Hill.
Hamburg : Peer Musikverlag, 1972.
Originally for piano and written in 1873 while Gounod was in London. Later in 1878 it was orchestrated.
This piece is well known as the Alfred Hitchcock signature tune.
For 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and 2 horns.
This is an atonal, serial piece of music in three movements. It is technically difficult and very
difficult rhythmically. It definitely needs a conductor. The group it was written for at an Adult
Education college had a reputation for excellence in music (director of Music there included Gustav
Holst and Michael Tippett as well as Graubart), so, though the wind group was nominally an amateur
one, it was a pretty expert amateur one and included some students at music colleges.
Dedicated to Lawrence Leonard and the Morley Wind Group, it was premiered by them in 1985
at the October Gallery in London with the composer conducting.
Duration: 8 min.
I. Resoluto -- II. Molto allegro -- III. Lento
Michael Graubart was born in Vienna in 1930 and came to England as a refugee in 1938. He studied physics at Manchester University, but spent most of his time there composing and playing the flute. He graduated in 1952 and worked as a development engineer in electronics at EMI and then as a teacher and lecturer in maths and physics while studying composition with Mtys Seiber and flute with Geoffrey Gilbert, playing the flute and conducting various amateur and professional choirs and orchestras.
In 1966 he became a tutor and conductor at Morley College in London, and from 1969 to 1991 he was the Director of Music there. He also worked as Musical Director of Focus Opera Group and held the post of Adjunct Professor of Music at the London centre of Syracuse University (U.S.A.).
From 1991 to 1996 he was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, taught in the Extra-Mural Department of Manchester University and conducted choirs in the North. He retired in 1996, though he still does some teaching, lecturing, composing and writing. For many years now he has studied philosophy at the Mary Ward Centre and at the City Literary Institute.
This piece isn't published yet but the composer will provide copies to interested parties.
E-mail him at: michael.graubart@btinternet.com
Green, Anthony, 1946- .
Concertino no. 2 : for double wind quintet / Anthony Green.
c1978.
1 ms. score (53 p.)
This is the second of three concertinos written by Mr. Green, the other two are for different instruments.
It is an atonal piece with sections that are played through with no stops. It is rather difficult so players
will need to be college level ability or above.
This piece was written in 1978 for the winds of Morley College (Lawrence Leonard, conductor) in South London while Anthony was a student there
and was played only in rehearsals so has never had a public performance.
Duration: 12 min.
This is an unpublished work available only from the composer. He can be reached in London at: +442 086594731.
Serenade for double wind quintette / Geoffrey Grey.
1967.
1 ms. score (29 p.)
"In memoriam Igor Strawinsky".
Dated April 1967.
Purcell Room, Portia Wind Ensemble.
This piece is listed in the British Music Information Centre,
but no publisher is listed. I recently found the web site linked above but there is no e-mail for Grey. I'll need
to contact the page owner at some point to find out more about this piece!
Duration: 14 min., 15 sec. (in pencil at end of score)
Written on the paper cover surrounding the score is 1964, but the date at the end looks like 1967 to me.
The original of this five movement piece (Praelude, Sarabande, Gavotte, Air, Rigaudon) was for
piano and later arranged for string orchestra. Written in 1884 is was commissioned to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth
of Ludwig Holberg, a writer born in the Grieg's birthplace, Bergen.
Cloister music : for double wind quintet, opus 8 / by Michael Gryspeerdt.
Bristol, UK : Blaise Publications, c1988.
1 score (31 p.) + 10 parts.
This piece was originally written for the wind players of the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra.
The first performance was in a serenade concert given in the Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral on 24th June 1988.
The piece has four movements, Prelude, Caprice, Scherzo, and Rondo.
This piece is not terribly difficult but we found it much more satisfying to play it with a conductor because
of the tempo and time signature changes. A good amateur group could do it, or possible a very good high school group.
Although not currently being distributed, copies can be obtained by contacting Jeremy de Satge at the Music Makers.
the company that published much of Gryspeerdt's other music. The e-mail address is: enquiries@themusicmakers.org.
A study in self-indulgent composition. Martin Mailman described it as opulent. It takes its name
from the 20th century style of painting known as fauvism. The style of the piece should be humor bordering on fury.
Duration: 4 min., 39 sec.
Gursching, Albrecht, 1934-
Pas encore : improvisations pour dix instruments vent / A. Gursching.
Facsimile score also available from Scottish Music Archive in Glasgow.
H
Haek, Jonathan S.
Dectet : residual ramifications no. 1 / Jonathan Haek.
2005.
Hanchet, Pat.
The Only Blonde in the World / Pat Hanchet.
P. Hanchet,
"The Only Blonde in the World" is based on the painting by Pauline Boty (1938 - 1966) which is in the Liverpool Tate Gallery. It is
intended to be within the technical grasp of an amateur ensemble and is "flexibly" scored, with the aim of using as wide a variety of
clefs, keys, transpositions as possible within the group. Each player reads from the same stave, but imagines (or writes in ) a different
clef and key signature.
The picture shows a glamorous young Blonde stepping out as if to perform or meet her public. Her head and upper torso exude confidence
but her high-heel shod and spindly legs look wobbly and fragile.
The music starts on one instrument, soft and low, slinky and slow. As the each instrument enters, faster and higher than the previous one,
and in a different key, we sense her increasing unease until the music becomes frantic. Gradually the mood changes back from neurotic
to erotic as she presents herself in the appropriate manner.
Duration: 4 min.
Currently only available from the composer at: pathanchet@macunlimited.net
Antiphonies for 2 wind quartets [sic] / Patrick Harrex.
For flute, alto flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 horns and 2 bassoons which is clearly quintets
not quartets as indicated in the title. Written in 1967. Manuscript at the British Music Information Centre. [however now that
I'm here they don't have it, so I'll have to revise this]
Harrold, Ian.
Three American folk songs : arranged for double wind quintet / Ian Harrold.
This is a three movement piece which can be played separately or together.
The first movement is entitled Uncle Reuben, the second, Frankie and Johnny and the last We're gonna raise a rukus.
The final movement is a delightful piece written to sound like a Sousa march, thus the "hommage J.P.Sousa" under the title.
Harrold, Ian.
Three British folksongs : for double wind quintet / arr. Ian Harrold.
The flute II doubles on piccolo, the clarinet I on E flat clarinet and the clarinet II on bass clarinet.
Commissioned by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. First performed on April 8, 1991,
in Glyndebourne by the London Philharmonic Orchestra Wind Ensemble, Jonathan Harvey, conductor.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Score (ISBN 0-571-55560-8) is for sale but the parts are rental only.
For standard double wind quintet with no doublings, clarinet in Bflat.
'Anima', Latin for 'life' or 'soul', is used in this context as a collective title for an
on-going series of pieces characterizing the many and varied air currents which blow across the earth.
Duration: ca. 13 min.
1. Boreas (A cold and occasionally stormy wind in Greece, depicted in Greek mythology as an old man blowing a conch shell)
2. Vento coado (A 'playful' wind in Portugal)
3. Doinionn (A wild Irish wind)
The score and parts for this are available directly from the composer at: michaelhenry@composer.co.uk
Suffolk : Deben Music (2 Kingsway, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England IP12 1BA), c2004.
The only doublings in this piece is the 2nd horn which must play the woodblock, which is a vital part of the piece.
Originally this piece was part of the ballet Fille mal garde for orchestra. Subsequently John Lanchbery
arranged it for piano, from which many more arrangements have been made, this one for double wind quintet.
This piece is rather difficult and would need a good amateur group to perform it well.
Commissioned in 1927 for a competition for the BBC and the National Brass Band Festival Committee, this piece
was for military or wind band. It has three movements are Scherzo, Nocturne, March.
For Aelita : woodwind dectet / by Celeste Hutchins.
2003.
Originally written for a friend in a double wind quintet, this piece was ultimately submitted to a festival
but wasn't performed there. It is currently not published and the composer thinks it needs a little editing before
it is ready to be made widely available.
It is a short, single movement piece inspired by the movie Aelita Queen of Mars, an early Soviet science
fiction film.
Serenade : für Blasorchester (2 Flöten, 2 Hoboen, 2 Clarinetten, 2 Fagotte und 2 Hörner), op. 104c / componirt von S. Jadassohn ; [edited by Philip Hale].
Boston : A.P. Schmidt, c1890.
1 score (50 p.) + 10 parts.
Marsch, Notturno, Scherzo und Finale.
Numerous libraries around the world have this edition, but I could only find for sale the Compusic edition below.
1 score (42 p.) + 10 parts ; 30 cm. (Nieuwenhuis selection for windensemble ; 237)
This edition has a preface by Jan Joris Nieuwenhuis which states that this piece has charming melodies
and daring instrumentation with a natural feeling for wind instruments. The final movement, the bolera, is
particularly noteworthy. Jadassohn was particularly known for his teaching and has many students that went
on to fame, including Isassc Albeniz, Frederick Delius, and Franco Alfano.
Allegro di marcia -- Andante non troppo sostenuto -- Scherzo - Allegretto -- Tempo di Bolero.
Doublings on piccolo and English horn with an option of playing one horn on tuba.
Commissioned by the New Music Concerts, Toronto through the Ontario Arts Council.
Premiered October 15, 1977, in Toronto by The York Winds & The Norwegian Woodwind Quintet, Robert Aitken, conductor.
Three Lachian dances / Leoš Janácek ; orchestrated by Graham Sheen.
Boca Raton, Fla. : Edwin F. Kalmus, c1990.
1 score (64 p.) + 11 parts ; 33 cm.
Originally written for orchestra.
Publisher's no.: A 7594.
Järnefelt, Armas, 1869-1958.
Praeludium / Armas Järnefelt ; arranged for double wind quintet with 2 optional trumpets in Bflat by Ian Harrold.
Gloucester, UK : IH Music, 2000?.
1 scores (4 p.) + 12 parts.
Järnefelt is a finnish born composer who was active as a conductor and composer in Sweden.
His sister married Sibelius and consequently Armas became a frequent performer and expert on Sibelius' music. This piece is an arrangement of his piece for small orchestra.
There are many arrangements of this piece and this one is delightful. Excellent encore, or, for opening a program.
Jones, Lewis, 1933-
Music for winds / Lewis Jones.
Composer's Guild of Great Britain.
Listed in Wind ensemble literature, 2nd ed., rev. 1975 / by Reynolds ... [et al.]. Indicates that it's for traditional dwq
but I haven't been able to verify it anywhere else.
Jouard, Paul, 1928-
Alec Andrew Templeton, Merry Christmas / Paul Jouard.
This piece was originally written to be submitted for a competition but wasn't finished in time.
It was performed, nonetheless, successfully in the 1960s.
Not an easy piece, it is bolder in style than other pieces by Kimpton.
Kimpton was born in Lincoln, England in 1927 and Geoffrey Kimpton was born in Lincoln, England, in 1927.
He became interested in music very young while listening to great singers and instrumentalists who performed
in the Cathedral and in churches and halls during and shortly after the war. For two years in his early teens he travelled to
Huddersfield for inspiring lessons from the great Yorkshire violin teacher Arthur Kaye. He also studied harmony and counterpoint
with Dr. Gordon Slater, the Lincoln cathedral organist. After National Service, he studied in London at the Guildhall School of
Music. Alfred Nieman, his composition teacher, had the Midas touch in transforming simple beginnings by his magical improvisations. There followed two
memorable years at the Vienna Academy, then back to London, and Birmingham. The music of Andrzej Panufnik, for two years conductor
of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, was a great inspiration and influence. In the early 1960s, Geoffrey and his family
settled in Manchester, and he has had a varied career as an orchestral player (in the BBC Northern Orchestra, now the BBC Philharmonic),
as a lecturer, violin teacher and composer. Over the years, various works for instrumental ensemble (some with voice) have been performed in Manchester, Birmingham, Cheltenham and St. David's Cathedral.
These include a Passacaglia and Fugue for string orchestra, a quartet, a string trio and several larger scale chamber works for strings and wind
instruments. He has written many songs for competitions and concerts organised by the English Poetry and Song
Society. Several of these have been awarded prizes, and have been performed in Bath, Bristol and Manchester.
Various works of his have been recorded: 'The Upland Path' for solo violin, 'The Bridge of Hope' for violin and
piano (in three movements), 'Serenade' for clarinet and piano (in four movements), and three songs, as part of a
CD arranged by the North West Composers' Association. His latest recording is a double CD of twenty-eight of his own songs,
performed by five splendid artists. The poems he has set, on the theme of 'Love and Loss', contain a wonderful variety of human
experience: from rural contentment to hopeless longing and mental anguish, assuaged only by the muse of poetry; from witty
analogies to a simple and sincere vow of lifelong fidelity; and to the tragic loss of young lives in warfare.
While the Sinfonietta is not published, it is available from the composer, who can be reached at: gkimpton@fish.co.uk.
Originally written in 1982 and revised in 1987. Written for the Hague wind ensemble, Oktopus. Based on a quotation from Nabokov's autobiography.
Duration: 18 min., 30 sec.
The parts for this seem only to be available for hire but the score can be purchased.
L
Lane, Liz.
Turnabout : for wind dectet / Liz Lane.
[2010]
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes (one doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons.
Originally written in 2005 for 9 instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone, trumpet, horn and
trombone), Liz arranged it for the double wind quintet, Westerly Winds in 2009.
Introductory remarks dated Feb. 2010.
Duration: 7 min.
Langley, James W., 1927-1994.
Sinfonia for ten wind instruments / James Langley.
1967.
1 score ([54] p.) ; 42 cm. + 10 parts ; 35 cm.
One flute doubles on piccolo.
This piece appears to be unpublished since the only copy I've found is a reproduction of the manuscript that resides in the
Eastman School of Music Library. There isn't a mention of this piece in either the BMIC or the BL even though Langley is British.
No idea how Eastman ended up with the only copy to be found. However, the Wind ensemble literature, 2nd ed., rev. 1975 / by
Reynolds ... [et al.] says that the Composers Guild of Great Britain has a copy so I'll check that out.
I didn't find a nice biography page to link to for Langley, but I did find an interesting page for a memorial trust set up
after his unexpected death. The James Langley Memorial Trust page
indicates that Langley was a music producer at the BBC and was devoted to the Midlands
Youth Orchestra where he served in many roles, including music director.
Jerry is British composer/arranged who began his career working in musical theater.
He then began his own music publisher. He arranged music of all styles mainly for wind instruments.
An ex-oboist, he currently play horn and piano.
For flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, clarinet in A, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns.
Written between September 2002 and October 2003.
Duration: ca. 12 min.
The composer notes say: The Basho Trilogy is inspired from texts by Matsuo Basho who lived in Japan during the 17th
century and who is regarded as the master of haiku (or hokku), an epigrammatic Japanese verse form in 17 syllables.
In the piece there are no written dynamics and very few phrase marks. It is the composer's wish that the ensemble on its own
works these parameters out, according to their own likings. The movements may be performed separately or together.
Basho 1 (Stand still! A dagger-thrust against the cliffs. Voices of the Cicadas) (3 min.)
Basho 2 (On a withered branch. A crow has stopped. Twilight in autumn) (3 min.)
Den hemlighetsfulla mumien (The mysterious mummy) (6 min.)
This piece is not yet published but can be obtained by contacting the composer at: martinq@swipnet.se
Il colore del vento : per doppio quintetto di fiati / Massimo Lauricella.
[Genoa, Italy : M. Lauricella], 1991.
This piece has two unnamed movements played without a pause. It was originally played by a
student ensemble so it is accessible to a wide range of abilities. However, it needs a conductor.
Duration: ca. 10 min.
Available from the composer at: massimo.lauricella@fastwebnet.it (do not use the e-mail address at the site linked to his name above since it have been replaced by this one.)
I haven't found this for sale and suspect it hasn't been published. Levin is a professor Lake
Forest College and probably would provide one with a copy if contacted. Contact information is on
the page linked above.
This piece is op. 61 and is dedicated to an oboist friend, Erik Fernstrm. It was written in 1993,
commissioned by the Stersunds Serenadensemble and premiered at the summer festival in 1993 with Peter Ligetzas conducting.
Premiered November 19, 2005 by Kaleidoscope Wind in London, England.
The Dezet was composed in 1987. It has a fairly traditional four-movement form. There are
very few solo passages, and these tend towards being quite short. The pairs of instruments figure
very prominently, whether in unison, parallel motion, or various kinds of counterpoint, with the
purpose of distinguishing this piece from more conventional wind chamber works for one each of several
kinds of instruments.
Duration: 15 min.
1. Allegro non troppo 2. Adagio 3. Allegro con forza 4. Allegro
This is only available from the composer at loebd@newschool.edu or, by mail at:
The Mannes College of Music 150 W. 85th St. New York, NY 10024 USA
Divertissement for double wind quintet / Elisabeth Lutyens.
Belwin Mills,
I found this listed in Wind ensemble literature, 2nd ed., rev. 1975 / by Reynolds ... [et al.] but it gave very little
information. Belwin-Mills is out of business and their catalog has been difficult to locate. This piece is not listed in the two
lists of her works which I consulted.
Processional hymn -- Christmas song -- Lament -- Comic song, the dance of the giant -- What the birds are saying -- Lullaby -- Round dance -- Peasant dance.
York, England : June Emerson Wind Music has this piece
listed but without mention of an arranger, it has piccolo, English horn and bass clarinet doublings.
Symphony for ten wind instruments / by John McCabe.
London : Novello, c1990.
(Novello wind ensemble series)
Doubles piccolo, alto flute, and English horn.
Written in November 1964 in München. Commissioned by the Portia Ensemble and premiered in December 1964 by Portia Ensemble, John McCabe conducting, at Wigmore Hall, London.
Duration: 18 min.
Played without a break but divided into six movements:
Allegro -- Lento -- Vivo -- Lento -- Vivo -- Lento
Written for the Kaleidoscope Wind and premiered by them (Ferencz Diczku, conducting) on March 20, 2003 at
St. Cyprian's Church, London. The premiere was broadcast by the BBC Radio 3 on December 3, 2003.
McGuire won the British Composer Awards in the wind and brass section with this piece in 2003.
Menuet badin : pour instruments à vent / G. Mellin.
Paris : Evette & Schaeffer, [18--?]
I have found two additional sources that indicate this was published by Andraud which was bought by Southern.
In the publication Wind chamber music by Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, this is listed as by "Melin, Bengt" who she says was
born in 1928 and was published by Southern Music but Southern has never heard of this piece and I think the composer is actually
G. Mellin. The Free Library of Philadelphia hold a dwq with this title and they list the composer as G. Mellin. I've been in
contact with them and they have verified that the instrumentation is standard dwq with no doublings. The FLP have an engraved
set of parts published in Paris by Evette & Schaeffer, they think sometime in the 1800s. I think this is more likely to be the
correct composer for this piece. I'm seeing now if I can get a copy to look at. If anyone in the Philly area would like to help, e-mail me!
York, England : June Emerson Wind Music (I was
just checking out this distributor and they are offering this as rental only which is odd because
it for sale just fine on Sheetmusicplus.com... hmm)
This piece is listed in the library of the Double Reed Society, no. 355 in the Miscellaneous Chamber Music Section.
I haven't seen it in the standard wind distributors. At some point I may need to contact IDRS to find our more about it.
È amore un ladroncello : [from] Così fan tutte no. 28, aria Dorabella : 2 flauti, 2 oboi,
2 clarinetti in B, 2 fagotti, 2 corni in B alto / Mozart ; arr. Lance Baker.
[London?] : L. Baker, c1991.
1 score (4 p.) ; 30 cm.
I found mention of this piece on a site at the University of Southampton. It was cited on the Web site of Professor Mark
Everist. The page lists works based on Mozart's
Così fan tutte (Shelfmark GB-Lbl f.67.xx.(1)). This shelfmark is from the British Library which
holds a copy in it's music colleciton.
I've been in contact with Mr. Baker about this piece but he had a computer crash and so was
unable at the time to answer questions about the piece. I hope I'll know more soon. (June 3, 2006)
This piece is the second in a collection called 2 sleigh rides, filed under Mozart, Leopold.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. [Deutsche Ta¨nze, orchestra, K. 605. Nr. 3; arranged]
The impresario overture : for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in Bflat, 2 horns in F, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib. /
by W.A. Mozart ; arranged by Henk Kox.
For standard double wind quintet with no doublings.
Written for the Hindemith Woodwind Quintet and commissioned by the Hochschule fur Musik, Mainz with kind support from
the Annie Eisler Lehmenn Stiftung. Premiered in November 2010 in Leipzig.
Lior reflects on his impressions of NYC, on one hand the constant movement and things happening and on the other hand
the many tragedies for unfortunate people. The piece consists of four connected sections: Keep moving, Gutter People,
Getting busy and Keeping busy. The first and fourth movements refer to the continuous, breathless pace of life.
The third movement is a short satire about restless people. The second movement is inspired by the thousands of people who spend
all their life in the cellar of a restaurant or shop after immigrating from far away, only to serve the ever-hurrying people above them.
This piece was written in 1951 when North was a student at the Royal Academy of Music. At the moment the
composer does not have a copy of the piece since in 1951 he gave it to a colleague that was interested in
performing it and never got it back from that person. So, while it is not available at the moment perhaps someday
it will turn up in an archive or library somewhere or, more likely, in someone's attic! If it ever turns up perhaps
we'll be able to see how it stood the test of time.
Flute II doubles on piccolo, oboe II on English horn and clarinet II on bass clarinet.
Duration: 21 min.
I. Intrada -- II. Sonata -- III. Intermezzo -- IV. Antifon -- V. Rondo finale.
On the t.p. verso of the manuscript examined at BMIC on 22 Oct. 2007 there is suggested programme note:
The Intrada consists of a series of brief duets for the paired instruments punctuated by chorale-like passages for the
instruments so far introduced; it culminates in a short phrase of the three chords which will form the basis of the Rondo in the fifth
movement, but which here poises the music before leading directly into the next movement. Sonata. The melodic ideas presented
in this introduction are closely related to each other by depending exclusively on a single untransposed form (and its retrograde) of the
twelve note row on which the whole work is based.
The second movement is Sonata-like in its use of themeatic contrasts, recognisable development section of overt transformations of the
material, recapitulation and coda; it even retains a shadow of tonal structure in the manipulation of the transposition chosen
for various thematic events.
In the lightweight Intermezzo, material for the paired horns functions as a trio-like interpolation in the main texture and the slow
Antifon tends to exploit various groupings of the ensemble including verse-like recitatives for solo instruments. These two
movements are the only ones employing the auxiliary instruments, piccolo, cor anglais and bass clarinet.
The 5/8 phrase which runs throughout the Rondo-Finale is not so much a settled rondo theme as a variable idea seeking resolution,
which is eventually finds in the final bars, revealing its relationship to the ending of the Intrada; the various episodes are extended
versions of the brief duets with which the instruments were originally introduced at the beginning of the work. B.D.O.
Gamber may have been Orr's own music press, but more information might be available from
E D Kennaway 218a Finchley Rd, London NW3 6DH. (0171 435 2897. Fax 0171 419 2404).
I found this listed as having 2 horns in one source and 2 trumpets in another source. I haven't confirmed yet
which is correct so if you're interested in this you may want to check to see if it's horns or trumpets that provide the brass line.
Written in Ottawa in February-March 1976, this piece was commissioned by the Divertimento Ensemble de Milan,
and premiered on April 30, 1977 on the Journes de Musique Contemporaine de la Radio-Television Espagnole, Sala Fenix, Madrid,
Sandro Gorli, conducting.
Duration: 15 min.
Catalog no.: S. 8242 Z.
The score is for sale at Zerboni above but the parts look to be only for hire.
Still life with wind : for double wind quintet / Daniel Palkowski.
Written in 1985 during his doctoral studies at Columbia University with George Edwards. Has not had a public performance.
Duration: ca. 6-7 min.
Doubles piccolo, English horn, bass clarinet and contrabassoon.
Not an easy piece, would need conservatory ability players to do it justice.
The style of work is hard to describe but the composer has some mp3s of some of his pieces on the Web that you can listen to
at: http://www.itp.nyu.edu/~dhp1. What I listened to reminded me of using music to evoke colors of sound, not much melody.
Reminded be of the music often heard in movies where a mood is trying to be created without a melody getting in the way of the action.
Might be availabe from the composer, he's looking for it at last contact.
Parys, Annelies Van, 1975-
Meditation for double wind quintet / Annelies Van Parys.
Premiered October 23, 2005 by I Solisti del Vento during the Festival Music @ venture in DeSingel (Antwerp).
Mark is a bassoonist, teacher, orchestral player, and music camp organizer. He has several arrangements
for woodwinds published by Presser, and Alry Publications.
Composed in 1873 in Wiesbaden without a dedication.
Movement one, in greatly modified and expanded binary form, features a lovely, asymmetrically-phrased chorale melody (3+5) that is developed with excellent counterpoint and orchestration. The scherzo-like second movement is a rollicking Tarantella in compound time and quasi rondo form. The lyrical third movement, in rounded binary form (ABABA Coda), has a repeated section dramatically cast in the parallel minor mode. Movement four is an instrumental whirlwind in modified sonata form requiring virtuosic playing throughout.
(Note by Robert J. Garofalo from the CBDNA Website)
Originally written in 1989. This is a good arrangement for the most part. The first parts have the most fun,
so you could definitely play this if you have a group where the players on the second part didn't need a challenge.
In my double wind quintet we often picked out the movements that we liked and used them for opening and closing
pieces. Each movements stands by itself quite well.
Duration: 8 min.
1. Entrée (Platée)
2. Air 1 et 2 (Platée)
3. Tambourin 1 et 2 (Les fêtes d'Hébé, 1re suite)
4. Marche (Les Indes galantes, 1re suite)
5. Tambourin 1 et 2 (Les Indes galantes, 2me suite)
John has a grading system on his "list of works" that indicates this pieces would be appropriate for "community
groups" and above but too difficult for young players.
Three short "pictures" written for the orchestral wind section of an orchestra in Lancsashire.
Ideal for programming within an orchestral concert context.
Tonal and melodic, the movements are unnamed. The first movement is a prelude and quite fast, the 2nd movement is slow and sad, and the 3rd movement very fast and energetic.
Duration: 10 min.
Available from the composer. Prices, etc. are listed on the Web site linked to John's name
above, or e-mail him at: j.reeman@btopenworld.com
Commissioned by the Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst for the Radio Wind Ensemble.
Duration: 10 min.
Santo, Joseph.
Eclat : for double wind quintet / Joseph Santo.
1990.
Eclat, a French word meaning "burst," "explosion," "brilliance," is conceived as an overture or fanfare.
The ABA form uses a twelve-tone row, presented at times strictly, at other times combined with free, often chromatic, runs and swirls.
For standard double wind quintet with no doublings.
Basically tonal, using traditional melodic techniques with some mixed and assymetrical meters
in the 1st and last movements. The second movement is a stylistic tribute to British composer
Malcolm Arnold and borrows a formal-harmonic plan common to his English and Scottish Dances.
Four movements: I. q=108 -- II. Homage a Malcolm Arnold -- III. q=104 -- IV. q.=80.
Premiered November 3, 2004 by a group of Ohio State University students conducted by the composer
and coached by the bassoon teacher at OSU, Christopher Weait.
Originally written for an amateur group in Dayton, Ohio, it was composed during the summer vacation
from teaching public school. Matthew had been exposed to this medium while at University of
Cincinnati but being a trombone player could only get "in on the action" by composing. The group he
originally had in mind for the piece did not end up playing it, so it didn't get its premiere until
two years later when Matthew returned to school to get his graduate degree in composition.
The Malcolm Arnold connection was inspired by Matthew's experiences with that
neglected composer's music, especially a recording project in which he
participated in during the Spring of 2002 with the Sinclair Community College
Community Wind Symphony in Dayton, Ohio.
Suitable for a good amateur group or better. A professional group might well be able
to perform it without a conductor.
Duration: ca. 11 min.
Although not published, it is available from the composer who can be reached by e-mail at:
two2twain@hotmail.com. You can also take a look at the score of the first movement on Score Exchange.
Lied et scherzo : pour double quintette à vent dont un cor principal / Florent Schmitt.
Paris : Durand, [1998], c1912.
This decet features one of the horns as a soloist. This 10 minute piece is impressionistic in style
with a very melodic slow movement and a very rhythmic, distinctly French scherzo.
Duration: 10 min.
It looks like there is a new edition out by Kalmus:
The first three movements of this piece are an arrangement from the Fünf Klavierstcke and the final movement
is from the Overture in Italian style in C. It is a piece that can easily be played by musicians with moderate expertise
or put together very quickly by more experienced players.
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
[Marches miliaires; arr.]
Three marches militaires after Franz Schubert / arranged by Jean Francaix.
Mainz : B. Schott Sohne.
Doubles piccolo and contrabassoon.
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
[Moments musicaux. No 3; arr.]
Moments musicaux, no. 3, opus 94, D 780 / Franz Schubert ; arranged by Jerry Lanning.
For standard double wind quintet, no doublings, with optional string bass part to substitute for bassoon 2 if desired.
An arrangement for wind decet of the third of Schubert?s Six Moments Musicaux Op 94, originally for piano. Either bassoon
2 or double bass can be used, but not both, otherwise the bass line will be overloaded.
Sacred women : for double wind quintet / Jeff Scott.
New York, N.Y. : Homem de Pao Music, c2012.
1 score (61 p.) + 10 parts.
For standard double wind quintet with the 2nd flute doubling on alto flute, 2nd clarinet doubling on bass clarinet, and
the clarinets need A clarinets.
Set of dance works written in recognition of 3 historically significant Goddesses, Isis, the Egyptian goddess, Yemanja, an
orisha, originally of the Yoruba religion, and lastly, Mawu of Benin, Africa,
Commissioned by the Utah State University at Logan, to be played by the wind faculty with their top wind students.
Playable by conservatory level players and above.
Duration: 25-28 min.
I. Isis -- II. Iemanja -- III. Mawu.
Listen on YouTube to excerpts of a performance by Imani Winds on August 1st, 2012 in NYC.
Available from Jeff by e-mailing him at: thebreadman1@hotmail.com
Flute II doubles on piccolo and there is optional percussion.
Originally a musical comedy written in 1959 and full of deceptively simple writing. This arrangement of selections
from the musical is challenging in a fun way, tuneful, and spicey.
Three movement piece with doublings on piccolo and English horn. In the final movement the second clarinet doubles on bass
clarinet if possible. If not, then the alternative part for A clarinet should be used and the cues in the other parts should be
played.
Duration: 18 min.
Sims-Williams is a professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies and does music on the side. He's a horn player and has
written many compositions for wind instruments.
This is a beautiful three movement piece now available in published form from Boosey. Originally written in
2000 it has previously only been available from the composer. This piece could be played by a good high school group
as well as being a good work for professional players. The piece is melodic, with interesting harmonies and
good parts for all 10 voices. The second movement has a somewhat more difficult first flute part which would
require a more advanced player than the 2nd flute part. Very few tempo changes within movements which makes this piece
possible to do fairly well without a conductor.
Pineapple fripperies : for chamber wind ensemble / Robert Spittal.
Spokane : Shaba Road Music, 2007.
Haven't played this yet so I don't know what it's like but as soon as we read it, I'll put something here. It looks like it's
going to be a fun one though.
Sketches on themes by Ned : for chamber wind ensemble / Robert Spittal.
Spokane : Shaba Road Music, 2007.
Commissioned in the summer of 2005 and premiered at a private party on September 9th, 2005 this piece was a
special gift from the author of this bibliography to her husband, Ned Gerhart
on their 25th wedding anniversary. The piece is based on melodies that Ned has written over that past few years for piano.
Bob Spittal has woven three of Ned's melodies into a piece played with a break, including a section for improvisation in the middle.
Perhaps a bit more difficult than the Consort but very playable by any group of good players. This piece more than
the Consort needs a conductor. Bob did some revisions in 2007 and so what it now available is the revised version.
Sporck, Georges, 1870-1943.
Paysages Normandes : double quintette d'instruments à vent / Georges Sporck.
Paris : Pfister Frères,
Title in English is Landscapes of Normandy.
A Villerville -- Au Calvaire -- A travers champs.
Possibly also available from Southern Music by I haven't been able to verify this.
Stamitz, Karl, 1745-1801.
[Concertos, violoncello, orchestra, no. 1, G major; arr.]
Concerto for horn and winds / Karl Stamitz ; transcribed by Verne Reynolds from Cello Concerto no. 1 in G ; reduction for horn and piano.
This is op. 228 originally written for orchestra in 1848 and dedicaed to Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
[Pulcinella. Selections; arr.]
Carnevale : eight miniature classics introduced by Igor Stavinsky in Pulcinella / arranged,
edited, and adapted for chamber winds by Thomas Stone.
New Glarus, Wisconsin : Daehn Publications, c1998.
1 score (42 p.) + 12 parts ; 28 cm.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, string bass and bass clarinet (opt.).
Written for the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon, conductor.
The programs notes in the scores say: Arranged as a suite for chamber winds, the music is presented
in its original form, without Stravinsky's embellishments. The current edition does, however,
include added harmony parts in several of the movements, most extensively in those attributed to
Carlo Monza, whose keyboard works were conceived in only two parts.
I. Domenico Gallo: Trio sonata no. 1, mvt. I
II. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Il flaminio, act I, Aria: Mentre l'erbetta pasce l'agnelloa
III. Domenico Gallo: Trio sonata no. VIII, mtv. I
IV. Carlo Monza: 4 pieces moderne pour le clavecin: Air
V. Carlo Monza: 4 pieces pour le clavecin: Gavotte and gigue
VI. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Sinfonia a violoncello e basso, mvt. IV
VII. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato, Act I, Aria: Pupillette fiammette d'amore
VIII. Domenico Gallo: Trio sontata no. XII, mvt. III
Catalog no.: DP-983.
I don't see a Web presence for this publisher or a distributor for them, but their contact information is:
312 Ninth Ave. New Glarus, WI 53574 Phone: 608/527-2923
The dates often sited for Stumpf, 1740-1801 (New Grove Online) or, as in the preface, 1763-1801,
may in fact be for a totally different Stumpf. Regardless, he was a German composer and bassoonist
who wrote mostly instrumental music during the later half of the 18th century.
Written in 1973 this piece premiered October 30, 1975 in Hannover by Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik.
Duration: 9.5 min.
There is some doubt that the waltz is in fact by Balzac, but may be by D.F.E. Auber instead (according to the Catalogue of printed music in the British Library)
Doubles piccolo, bass clarinet, and contrabassoon.
As the name implies (Night ride) this piece is a driving scherzo and can be attempted by both
good amateurs and professionals. The London Times said of it, "Nachtritt was full of melody and texture
of the kind one might expect to hear in the more thrilling episodes of a Hitchcock film".
This piece was commissioned in 1983 by Morley College and was premiered in London on December 17, 1983 by the
Morley Wind Group, Lawrence Leonard, conducting. It's first professional performance was at South
Bank Centre in London on April 17, 1990 by the New London Wind Orchestra, the composer conducting.
Duration: 6 min.
Only available from the composer who can be reached at: 28 Cavendish Ave. Finchley, London N3 3QN Great Britain, or
by phone at: 020 8349 2317.
has taken over
their catalog. Although this piece isn't listed in their online store yet, if you e-mail them they will sell you copy of the
score and parts.
T
Takács, Jeno, 1902-
Fünf Bagatellen : für zehn Bläser, op. 102 / Jeno Takács.
Freiburg : Musikverlag Schulz, [1988], 1987.
1 score (39 p.) + 11 parts ; 30 cm. (Musik aus der Steiermark ; Heft 123)
Composed in 1977. Includes optional part for contrabassoon.
Jeno is an Austrian composer or Hungarian descent who worked for 20 years in the U.S.
His works made use of Hungarian and other folk musics and contemporary tonal, atonal, micro-tonal and aleatory
style. I haven't found a distributor for this piece yet, but a number of libraries in the U.S. have copies so
visit your public library and ask them to borrow it for you if you'd like to check it out.
Four dances that reflect the folk music of the small province in southern Albania called Lugubria.
Lugubria is a small province in southern Albania, whose Italianised name is the result of its many
years as a colony of the Venetian Republic - abruptly terminated by the Ottoman Turkish conquest of 1776. The local Albanian
majority and Greek-speaking minority have freely absorbed musical influences from these imperial cultures, borrowed musical ideas
from one another, and absorbed motifs and ideas from the small Roma and Macedonian populations in some parts of the provinces, as well
as from the former Ladino-speaking (mediaeval Spanish) Jewish population who lived there from their expulsion from Spain in 1493 until
the Nazis came. The result is a folk music of remarkable variety, but with the common element that the songs and dances frequently
end inconclusively. These four dances reflect the music of this little known region. (Hmm...)
Also there is a performance note: "The key to the successful performance of these pieces will be to establish the rhythms very
clearly - they are irregular and frequently changing, and the pieces will hang together if each player observes them carefully. Care
should be taken to observe the dynamics, since these may vary between parts in order to bring out the main line. In the third
Dance in particular, there is nearly always one instrument marked louder than the others, and it should be allowed to come through.
For oboe solo, oboe, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons.
The solo oboe represents Icarus, bassoons and horns his father whose warnings he ignores;
his increasing desire to fly and the unfortunate result are expressed in a freely tonal and vivid style.
Doubles piccolo, English horn and bass clarinet. Needs a bassoon with the low A extension.
Dedicated to composition professor at UT Austin, Dan Welcher.
It was originally composed in the spring of 2000, then arranged for chamber orchestra in 2002,
and finally revised in 2003 into its final form.
This is a difficult piece but tonal and melodic. It incorporates
stylistic techniques from Percy Grainger's catalogue of repertoire into the piece's musical sound.
The work consists of two main melodic lines, an original melody, which dominates the work, and as
a tribute to Percy Grainger, the other, Oh, Danny Boy (Irish Tune from County Derry). Both melodies
are employed through a wide variety of styles and textures. The final four bars embrace the two melodies
as well as two frequently used chromatic motives juxtaposed to an overwhelming, steadfast climax.
Christopher named this piece before he wrote it, and tells me that he endeavored to depict a
feather floating gracefully through the 'morning air' by taking the main melodic elements and
'floating' them through the different sections of the piece.
Duration: ca. 10 min., 30 sec.
Soon to be published by Healing Eagle Music
but until then Christopher can be contacted at ctucker@tuckermusicworks.com for more information and updates.
Turrill, Tony.
Tony is an English musician and music publisher. He plays all the clarinets and helps organize a
wind chamber music course (Chamber Music for Wind, Harrogate) which takes place every summer. His music
publishing company is Norvik Music.
Los 11 en punto : op.12 (2004) / F. J. Valero-Castells.
This piece is currently unpublished but you can find out more about and get a copy by contacting the composer
at fjvalero@ono.com.
The piece was commission for the The Estudi Obert Ensemble and dedicated to the conductor, his brother, Andrés Valero-Castells.
It was first performed by the Estudi Obert Ensemble on September 29, 2004 at the "XVI Encuentro de Compositores de Valencia",
Palau of the Music of Valencia.
Six studies in English folk song : transcribed for double wind quintet / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; transcribed by David Bussick.
Whichpond Music, 2011.
Duration: 9 min.
I. Adagio, Lovely on the Water -- II. Andante sostenuto, Spurn Point -- III. Larghetto, Van Dieman's Land --
IV. Lento, She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold -- V. Andante tranquillo, The Lady and the Dragoon --
VI. Allegro vivace, As I Walked Over London Bridge.>
Publ. no.: 738.
David publishes his own music using his only publishing company listed above.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1810-1901.
La forza del destino / G. Verdi ; arrangement for double wind quintet by Fabrizio Francia.
Riflessi lunari : per doppio quintetto di fiati / Luigi Verdi.
Bologna : Agenda Edizioni, 1999.
A canon based on a pentatonic harmonic field, this piece uses each wind quintet as a unit.
The piece is divided into three parts. In the first part the first canon develops, and then the second one
opposite); in the second part the first canon develops at the same time as the second one;
in the third part at first the opposite appears and then the original one again.
Premiered April 18, 1993 in Bologna at the Accademia Filarmonica by the I Fiati di Parma, directed by Claudio Paradiso.
Commissioned in 2004 by the Southwark Consorts of Winds
The ambiguity of the title is intentional - is the hill walking or being walked on? - and the 'walk' refers to the structure of the piece. Sometimes the walk refers to a previous location; sometimes it moves in an unexpected direction, but there are unexpected reversals or changes of perspective as new vistas open up.
A small amount of musical material is constantly reinterpreted: in a sense it is the opening flute melody which goes on a walk.
If the players are seen as two quintets, the relationship between the two shifts from generally cooperative to generally antagonistic during the central section, and the resulting tension is not resolved.
This piece was originally written in 1926 in two different versions, one for piano (4 hands) and
one for string orchestra. In 1928 the composer arranged it for full orchestra. It takes its melodic material from the book
Orchesographie by Thoinot Arbeau, published in 1588 which explains the complexities of 16th century dance.
Although this arrangement is for double wind quintet it can be performed with slightly different scoring. Included in this
edition is a clarinet part which can substitute for the oboe II in movements 1, 4, and 6. A clarinet can also be substituted for
bassoon I if movement 4 is omitted.
Duration: 12 min.
1. Basse-Danse
2. Pavane
3. Tordion
4. Bransles
5. Pieds-en-l'air
6. Mattachins
Waters, Kevin.
Lines from Shakespeare / Kevin Waters.
2005.
Suite of pieces premiered on Nov. 17, 2005 by members of the Gonzaga University Wind Ensemble. It was also performed
at the regional meeting of the Society of Composers at the University of Montana, Missoula.
1. Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown
The dragon gets bitten : double wind quintet, 2003.
Duration: ca. 4 min.
Recorded on Phaedra CD 92037 by Ensemble Emanon. Recording available from: Presto Classical.
Wellens, Stefan 1974-
Return of the dragon gets bitten : double wind quintet, 2003.
Duration: ca. 5 min.
There isn't a good biography but here's a little about Stefan. The composer and viola player
Stefan Wellens is Theater de Spiegels music coach. Wellens graduated from the Antwerp Conservatory,
where one of his projects had been to create a new music-theatre production. He composes and
plays for various theatre companies, including Moodlex, Wannes van de Velde and Mairan. He has
also composed for Emanon. Wellens explores possible interactions between rock and theatre.
Concerto for ten wind instruments / Graham Whettam.
Revised version 2002.
Lydney, Gloucestershire : Meriden Music Co. ; King of Prussia,
PA, USA : Theodore Presser Co., c2002.
1 score (63 p.) + parts.
Originally written called Fantasy in a shorter, earlier version.
Alto flute, piccolo, English horn, and bass clarinet doubling.
Dedicated to Guy Woolfenden.
Duration: ca. 20 min.
I. Harlequinade: Lento sostenuto, allegro arlecchinesco
II. Recitative & scherzo: Adagio, Allegro scherzevole, Molto moderato
III. Festive finale: Allegro vivace
"The original version of the this work was commissioned, with funds provided by the Greater London Arts Association,
the the late Lawrence Leonard for Morley College Wind Ensemble. It was these same artists who presented the world-premiere
in London at Morley College on 26th February 1979. Whilst preparing this score for printing I have subjected it to considerable
revision, thereby extending the overall duration by five minutes. G.D.W. April 2002"--P. before the first p. of music.
Serenade for winds : for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon (or tuba) and 2 horns / Alec Wilder.
[Newton Centre, Mass.?] : Margun Music, c1980.
1 score (68 p.) + 11 parts.
Includes a part for contrabassoon or tuba.
Written in 1977.
Schirmer and Shawnee Presses supposedly now distribute the Margun Music catalog, but I could not find this
piece for sale or rent on either of their Web sites. It's possible that following up with them directly might yield
more success. If unavailable for purchase, a number of libraries around the U.S. have copies including Eastman, Duke,
Indiana, Harvard, and New York Public.
Williams, Richard.
Tanat serenade / Richard Williams.
Duration: 9 min.
I found this available at Richard's Music Store
but couldn't find it the last time I looked. I haven't contacted Richard to see if he's the composer
as well as the music store owner. It may still be available from there.
Wilson, James, 1922-2005.
Duet for ten : op. 110 / Wilson.
1986.
Commissioned by the Ulysses Quintet and Falun Quintet with funds provided by the Arts Council.
Premiered on 11 May 1987 at St Stephen's Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin.
Premiered on April 16, 2008 in Oxford, England. Commissioned by Simon Payne and the Oxford
Sinfonia.
The piece is 3 movements wit the 2nd movement beginning and ending with a bassoon solo in
memory of the great English bassoonist, William Waterhouse, who died shortly after work began on
the piece. Guy attended the same school as William. The outer movements are reflections on the
witty, humorous side of Bill and the composer's own happy childhood memories.
This piece was written to celebrate the birth of the composer's first grandchild, in 2001.
It consists of three movements. The Intrada sums up the happy event of Sophia's arrival, and is in a forms A-B-A structure.
The Dance which follows taps into the rich culture of Sophia's Jamaican relations. The finale plays on the juxtaposition of two contrasted moods, first reflective and then happier.
This is a piece my group has worked on and find very rewarding to play. There are some sections where an
amateur group like mine needs a conductor to keep everything together. There are some places where the meter changes
frequently as well as the tempo. The piece has lovely melodies and harmonies and isn't terribly difficult. May even be
playable by an above average high school group.
Schwierigkeiten & Unfälle mit 1 Choral / Friedrich Zehm.
Mainz : B. Schott's Sohne ; London : Schott, c1976.
In this double wind quintet the members have to play a variety of instruments other than their
normal ones. Flute I (also alarm whistle), flute II (also fl. piccolo and rachet), oboe
I (also cyclon whistle), oboe II (also click-frog), Clarinet I in Bflat (also Clar. in Eflat and bird pipe),
Clarinet II in Bflat (also hooter), Horn in F (also cuckoo), Horn II in F (also rattle), Bassoon I,
Bassoon II (also contrabassoon). This one requires a conductor since they need to play triangle,
slapstick and toy-trumpet.
Flutes double piccolo and alto flute, one oboe doubles English horn, and one clarinet doubles bass clarinet.
Dedicated to cellist, Juan Hermida.
The three movements are played without pause. Certain sonorities and patterns recur throughout,
the developmental procedures and characters of each movement contrast sharply with each other, the first movement
is intense and stratospheric, the second languorous and somewhat sentimental, and the final movement scurrying
and enigmatic (and perhaps strangely familiar to those who know their Chopin).
Chamber opera for double wind quintet and piano (4 hands) and percussion played by the instrumentalists;
flutes double on piccolos, one oboe doubles English horn, and both clarinets double bass clarinet.
For voices, dwq and harp. This is a Christmas carol based on the text adapted from George Wither's
"Hymns and songs of the church", 1623. I can't seem to find a date for this but I found an arrangement for piano that is
dated 1947 so it is sometime around then.
Duration: 14 min.
This appears to be for rental only since Schirmer doesn't list a purchase price.
Chini, André, 1945-
Omniphobie : from the melodrama "Autisten" / André Chini.
Stockholm, Sweden : Edition Suecia, c1992.
1 score (89 p.)
For double wind quintet, string bass, and mezzo soprano.
Omniphobie is thought of as a scene in a French caf with the instruments being the habitus and old men who sit there aiming their fear and their hatred at the foreign, instrument-less girl who steps into the caf. Only after a while when she begins to sing and communicate, does their hatred of foreigners recede and she is accepted.
Bawa : for Gyil and double wind quintet / Sowah Mensah.
Commissioned and premiered by Harmonia Mundi in April 1996.
Klusák, Jan, 1934-
Dämmerklarheit : sechs Konzertarien auf Friedrich Rückert : for low voice, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contrabassoon / Jan Klusák.
For piano solo with double wind quintet accompaniment.
This piece is a tonal composition that requires a professional level, accomplished pianist. The
wind parts, however, could be played by a good college or amateur group.
Commissioned by Carl Bjerregaard for Jane Perry-Camp and The Florida State University Chamber Winds.
Premiered April 3, 1986 in Tallahassee, Florida, Jane Perry-Camp, piano; Florida State University Chamber Winds; Carl Bjerregaard , conductor
Recorded on Garnet Records in 1987 by Jane Perry-Camp, piano; Florida State University Chamber Winds; Carl Bjerregard conducting.
This recording is available from the composer.
Duration: 13 min.
1. Andante innocente
2. Adagio e tranquillo
3. Allegro
Available from the composer publishing house linked above. There is also a version for two
pianos available for rehearsal purposes.
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
Beim Abschied zu singen / Robert Schumann.
Compusic, ????
For mixed choir and double wind quintet. Text by E. von Feuchtersleben.
Written in 1847 or 1848, it is op. 84. The first line of text is Es ist bestimmt in Gottes
lied and it's in the key of F major.
Concerto for Violin and double wind quintet / Patrice Sciortino.
Calamus, 1989.
I stumbled on this but haven't been able to verify the instrumentation of the accompaniment. Amazon has a recording from
1993 on the Rem label with the Erwartung Ensemble playing.
Stamitz, Karl, 1745-1801.
[Concertos, violoncello, no. 1, G major; arr.]
Concerto for horn and winds / Karl Stamitz ; transcribed by Verne Reynolds from Concerto no. 1 in G for 'cello and orchestra.
Cleveland : Ludwig Music Pub. Co., c1983.
Duration: 20 min.
Vandervelde, Janika.
Item de Virginibus = O Most Noble Greenness / Janika Vandervelde ; words by Hildegaard.
Hothouse Press, 1989.
For voice (soprano or alto), double woodwind quintet and piano.
Premiered in April 1989 in Minneapolis, Minn. by Agnes Smuda, Harmonia Mundi, Michelle Edwards, conductor.
Duration: 10 min.
Wiernik, Adam.
Pezzo levantico : for cello solo with double wind quintet / Adam Wiernik.
Stockholm : Gehrmans Musikförlag, c1994.
Cello part and cadenza in collaboration with Ola Karlsson.
Duration: 12 min.
Double wind quintet with one additional instrument.
Bass clarinet is added.
Delden, Lex van.
Sinfonia VII : sinfonia concertante, opus 83 : per 11 strumenti a fiato / Lex van Delden.
Premiered on April 27, 2008 by the Chinook Winds double wind quintet at the annual Seattle Symphonic Band Ensemble Concert at North
Seattle Community College in Seattle, Wash.
I. Moderato -- II. Adagissimo -- III. Presto, spiritoso
To hear a computer rendering of this piece click here.
To obtain performance materials for this wonderful piece by a promising young composer, e-mail him at: cgerhold808@gmail.com.
To hear a computer rendering of this piece click here.
To obtain performance materials for piece, e-mail the composer at: cgerhold808@gmail.com.
Lewis, Peter Tod, 1932-1982.
Sestina : for woodwind ensemble / by Peter Lewis.
New York : Composers Facsimile Edition, c1985.
Written in in 1962 and 1963.
A piano piece with the same title was finished in 1962 right before this piece was begun so this may be an arrangement of it but I haven't examined both scores
to figure it out. A few libraries in the US have this work including Universisty of Houston, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and
University of Illinois. Only Wisconsin has the parts.
There's not a good site to link to for a biography but here's some information about Peter. Peter Tod Lewis (1932-1982) was
born in Charlottlesville, Virginia, and spent his formative years on both coasts of the United States. He attended the University
of California at Santa Barbara and Brandeis University in Massachusetts, studying with Arthur Berger, Morton Feldman, Irving
Fine, and Lukas Foss. Lewis was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Huntington Hartford Foundation, and MacDowell Colony,
and held residences at Southern Illinois University, the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht, Netherlands, and Groupe de Musique
Experimentale in Bourges, France. In 1969 he became director of the Electonic Music Studios at the University of Iowa, a position
he held until his death from cancer in 1982.
Ponse, Luctor.
Euterpe : suite pour 11 instrumentistes : op. 37 / Luctor Ponse.
This dwq + bass clarinet arranges the instruments into three groups. The first group contains
a flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon; the second a horn, bass clarinet and flute; and the third an oboe,
clarinet, bassoon and horn. The three groups are arranged around the stage with group I on the left,
group 2 in the middle and group 3 on the right.
Duration: ca. 12 min.
Dedication reads: "pour Thom de Klerk et son ensemble". The final page of music indicates that it
was written in Loenersloot, Netherlands in March 1964.
Originally for winds and strings (minus violin), this arrangement for 2 flutes (1 doubling
piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (parts of A and Bflat), 2 horns, 2 bassoons and contra bassoon.
Premiered by the Oregon Chamber Players in Portland, Oregon in 2009.
For 2 flutes (2nd+picc), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contra bassoon. Includes horn parts in Bflat and F.
An arrangement from the original for solo piano which follows Brahms's techniques of orchestration so as to capture as much as possible his idiomatic wind sound.
The OUP site can be a bit hard to find stuff on because they don't seem to index the arranger, so to
go directly to place in the catalog for this piece, click on the ISBN-10:
0-19-386645-5.
They don't seem to be indexing the ISBN-13 which is 978-0-19-386645-4.
Or, order from this distributor who does index the Braden, the arranger:
This arrangment has an optional contrabassoon part. Also the 2nd flute doubles piccolo.
Variations and a fugue on a theme by Handel was originally written for piano and is based on the Handel
tune Harmonious blacksmith which is originally the Aria con variazioni from the 2nd collection of the
Suites for harpsichord. Tony has chosen to arrange those variations that suit wind instruments the
best without departing too much from the original, so the piece is somewhat shorter than the original.
Doubles piccolo, bass clarinet, and English horn on some movements. Can be played using regular oboe and clarinet
if bass clarinet and English horn aren't available. Parts are included for both.
Serenade, op. 22 / Antonin Dvorak ; arranged for wind ensemble by Mark Popkin.
Amsterdam : Compusic, c1997.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and contabassoon (bass).
Originally for strings, written in May 1875 as a wedding present to his wife. First performed in Prague in 1876, by the
combined Czech and German theater orchestras.
I. Moderator -- II. Tempo de valse -- III. Scherzo -- IV. Larghetto -- V. Finale
Overture Così fan tutte / W.A. Mozart ; arranged for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns,
2 bassoons and contrabassoon [by Johann Christian Stumpf].
Preface by Willem Middelhoven, dated 1990. The preface says that this is one of two arrangements Stumpf made for "larger
wind group", the other being of Don Giovanni. This edition is based on the manuscript parts in the Municipal Museum of the Hague.
For standard dwq with an additional contrabassoon.
Written in 2001, this was composed for the Horsham Wind Ensemble (New Harmonie).
These variations are played without a pause and are tuneful and inventive. It isn't too difficult,
playable by very good students or a good amateur group. It attempts to put into musical language the nine muses of the classical
period. Although this is a theme with variations, the presence of other formal structures such as sonata, rondo and dance
movements, often obscures this identity.
Duration: ca. 17 min.
Caption title indicates that this is "op. 6".
ISMN M-57016-560-5, score
ISMN M-57016-559-9, parts
Suk, Josef, 1874-1935.
Serenade, op. 6 / Josef Suk ; arranged for wind ensemble by Mark Popkin.
Amsterdam : Edition Compusic, c1996.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contrabassoon/bass.
Originally of strings, composed in 1892.
I. Andante con moto -- II. Allegro ma non troppo -- III. Adagio -- IV. Allegro giocoso
Serenade for winds : for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon (or tuba) and 2 horns / Alec Wilder.
[Newton Centre, Mass.?] : Margun Music, c1980.
1 score (68 p.) + 11 parts.
Includes a part for contrabassoon or tuba.
Written in 1977.
Schirmer and Shawnee Presses supposedly now distribute the Margun Music catalog, but I could not find this
piece for sale or rent on either of their Web sites. It's possible that following up with them directly might yield
more success. If unavailable for purchase, a number of libraries around the U.S. have copies including Eastman, Duke,
Indiana, Harvard, and New York Public.
Born in 1917 in London, "Tony" Arnell is famous for his symphonic and film works.
His music is romantic in nature and approachable. The first movement of this piece is serious and reflective, the
second light and humorous, the third a lovely cantabile, and the final an exhilarating ballet featuring dance rhythms.
This piece was written in 1949 and was recorded by the London Baroque Ensemble with Karl Haas, to whom
the work is dedicated, directing.
[Symphonies, no. 3, op. 55, E flat major. Allegro con brio; arr.]
Symphony no.3, 1st movement / Beethoven ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
2005.
In addition to adding the double bass to the dwq there is an optional trumpet part.
Duration: 10 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.
[Serenades, orchestra, no. 1, op. 11, D major; arr.]
Serenade no. 1 / Brahms ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
2002.
Includes arrangments for movements 1, II, V, and VI with additional double bass.
Duration: 25 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Variations on a theme by Haydn / Brahms ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
1994.
In addition to the addition double bass, the flute II doubles on piccolo.
Duration: 20 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Brauer, Max, 1855-1918.
Pan suite / Max Brauer.
Breitkopf and Hartel, 1934.
Pan suite : für 10 Blasinstrumente und Kontrabass / von Max Brauer.
Virginia Water, England : One Dee Press, [19--?]
1 score (101 p.) + 11 parts.
"A satisfactory performance by wind decet can be achieved without Kontrabass if C/bass cues in parts are played"--T.p. of One Dee Press edition.
1. Eintritt in Pans Gebiet.
2. Tanz. Trio: Satyren und Nymphen.
3. Nacht und Phantome.
4. Morgengesang. Tanz.
5. Zusammenkunst aller Musikanten.
I don't see a biography of Brauer on the Web so here's what I could find about him. He was born in Mannheim on May 9, 1855 and
died in Karlsruhe on December 2, 1918. He was primarily a conductor and had studied with Vincenz Lachner and a variety of people
at Cologne University. In 1880 he conducted the Cäcilienvereins at Kaiserslautern and in 1888 Hofkirche at Karlsruhe wher he
founded a Bach Society in 1905. He also wrote operas and string music.
I don't see this piece listed in the Breitkopf catalog but the One Dee Press edition can be had by phoning Roy Penny at:
(+44) 01932 562383.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns and double bass. The double
bass has a virtuoso solo part. This piece is also arranged for double bass and piano.
Symphony no. 99 in E flat (1st movement) / Haydn ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
2007
Double bass is added to the dwq.
Duration: 7 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Milhaud, Darius.
Scaramouche / Milhaud ; arranged by Bastiaan Blomhert.
The impresario overture : for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in Bflat, 2 horns in F, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib. /
by W.A. Mozart ; arranged by Henk Kox.
I. Adagio-Allegro Molto -- II. Menuetto moderato -- III. Andante -- IV. Rondo-Allegretto
Duration: ca. 14 min.
Publisher's no: F.E. 0205/04 score and parts
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
[Guillaume Tell. Ouverture; arr.]
William Tell overture / Rossini ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
1997.
For piccolo, flute, clarinets in A (challenging part), 2 oboes (one doubling English horn), 2 bassoon, 2 horns, and
double bass. There are optional parts for trumpet.
Duration: 15 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Mockingbird rag : for chamber wind ensemble / Robert Spittal.
Spokane : Shaba Road Music, 1999.
For piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 b-flat clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and bass or tuba.
Short 53 bar piece with a medium ragtime tempo.
Stranz, Ulrich, 1946-2004.
Serenade fur Doppel-Blasrquintett und Kontrabass / Ulrich Stranz.
For 2 flute (2nd fl. double piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubles Gleitflote (haven't figured out what
this is yet!), 2 clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and contrabass.
Composed in 1992 and revised in 2002. Premiered on May 8, 1992 in Krenzlingen by the Banda
classica, conducted by Christian Siegmann.
Duration: 21 min.
Stranz is published by Barenreiter, and this piece is listed on the Barenreiter site in his
list of works, but I don't see it in their catalog. However, if I were looking for this piece
to play, I would start by asking Barenreiter if they know where a copy might be purchased.
Die Fledermaus / Strauss ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
1998
Flute II doubles on piccolo and the clarinets are in A.
Difficult arrangement for college level and up.
Duration: 15 min
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899.
[Kaiser-Walzer; arr.]
Emperor waltz / Strauss ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
1999.
Moderately easy arrangement for dwq and double bass with an optional trumpet part.
Duration: 12 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899.
[G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald; arr.]
Tales from the Vienna Woods / Strauss ; arranged by Gilbert Dejean.
2007
Moderately easy arrangement for dwq and double bass with an optional trumpet part.
Duration: 12 min.
Thommessen, Olav Anton, 1946-
Lass O! Deine Tronen : for double woodwind quintet and contrabass / O.A. Thommessen.
Norwegian Music Information Centre, 1998.
For 2 alto flutes, 2 English horns, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and contrabass.
Chamber symphony for 11 instruments / Maurice Wright.
New York : M. Wright, 1985.
The double bass in this piece is an independent part which is essential to the playing including
some solo passages. While the piece wouldn't be considered tonal, it has a strong sense of harmony
and many extended sections of consonance.
The composer says that it is difficult but playable. Some movements are easier and shorter than
others. Most suited to a good college group with adequate rehearsal time or professionals.
Duration: 25 min.
I. Strongly marked
II. Smooth; flowing
III.With a clear, sustaining tone
IV. Barely moving - Songlike - With increasing speed
Available from the composer at: wright@temple.edu.
Written in 1967 and premiered March 12, 1968 by the University of Durham University Ensemble.
This piece has an extra flute and is for 11 winds when 2 bassoons substitute for the string bass.
Duration: 8 min.
Palindrome: Allegro spiritoso
Nocturne: Andante con moto
Apotheosis: Maestoso
Catalog no.: 0571564380
The site fo Faber Music disappeared lately but their catalog now seems to be available from:
Oboes double on English horn and the clarinets need both B flat and A clarinets.
Originally written to accompany dancers, this can work well without them as well.
Commissioned by New Harmonie and funded by South East Arts. Premiered by New Harmonie with the childrens'
dance company Malarkey at the Capitol Theatre in Horsham, England, in November 2003.
The alternate version with narrator rather than dancers was premiered by Chinook Winds on
June 24, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. The composer and her husband traveled to Seattle from England
to attend the concert.
This piece includes a piano with dwq. This piece accompanies the silent Laurel and Hardy film "Love and Hisses." (Piece may also be performed without film.)
Commissioned by the double woodwind quintet Harmonia Mundi and premiered at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1985, Michele Edwards conducting.
Duration: 20 min.
Only available from Schirmer for rental.
Macy, Carleton.
Centering : double wind quintet and piano / Carleton Macy.
1983.
A four movement work which begins with the ensemble placed around the audience and ends as a
single ensemble on stage.
Commissioned by Harmonia Mundi, J. Michele Edwards, conductor.
Serpent is added (need to find out what instrument might double this!).
Attwood, Thomas, 1765-1838.
Royal exchange march / Thomas Attwood.
London : J. Dale, 1803.
Composed and inscribed to Lieut. Colonel Birch and the rest of the Officers of the Royal Exchange or First
Regiment of Loyal London Volunteers.
The 2 marches are: Maestoso and Allegretto.
I found this listed in the Wind Ensemble Catalogue by Jon A. Gillaspie... [et al.] where it indicates that this
is in the private collection of Prof. Marshall Stoneham in Dorchester-on-Thames (Oxon).
There seems to some disagreement about the instrumentation for this piece... it is either with 1 additional trumpet,
2 additional trumpets or no horns but 2 trumpets and trombone instead.
Double wind quintet with two or more additional instruments.
This piece is for 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, and 2 double basses.
The manuscript of this work is held in the Harvard Music Libraries in Cambridge, Mass.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
[Symphonies, no. 3, op. 55, E flat major. Allegro con brio; arr.]
Symphony no.3, 1st movement / Beethoven ; arr. by Gilbert Dejean.
2005.
In addition to adding the double bass to the dwq there is an optional trumpet part.
Duration: 10 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
gldejean@earthlink.net
Beethoven, Ludwig, 1770-1827.
Wellington's victory / Beethoven.
Amsterdam : Compusic.
Arranged for double wind quintet plus contrabassoon and trumpet.
Berger, Wilhelm, 1861-1911.
Serenade, op. 102 : for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B flat, four horns in F and two bassoons / Wilhelm Berger.
This is the last piece he wrote in 1910. It was first performed after his death in Berlin. Berger's style is
reminiscent of Brahms and Strauss but abandons the classical arrangement of movement for new changes of keys and colors.
Transcribed from the manuscript held by the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin by F.H. Nex and C.M.M. Nex.
Recorded on the Claves label by Christian Siegmann and his Banda Classica (Claves CD 50-9409) and
on the Schwann label by Jost Michaels and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (310722).
Chinese Zodiac suite : for wind ensemble, piano and percussion, op. 65 / Salvador Brotons.
c1994.
For 2 flutes (both doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes (oboe II doubling on English horn), 2 clarinet (clarinet II
doubling on bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (bassoon II doubling on double bassoon), 2 French horns, piano, percussion
(1 player playing 8 different percussion instruments).
Commissioned by Michelle Edwards and the Harmonia Mundi (Minnesota wind group).
Duration: ca. 16 min.
Six movements that each represent one of the animals that represent the years of the Chinese zodiac:
I. The rat -- II. The buffalo -- III. The monkey -- IV. The snake -- V. The pig -- VI. The dragon.
The copy I have in hand is unpublished but there seems to be a published version available from:
(I don't see a Web presence for this publisher, and haven't called to verify that they still exist. The copy
I have in hand is destined for the University of Washington Music Library, if you have trouble finding it elsewhere.
Butler, Martin.
Suite from Craig's progress : for large ensemble / Martin Butler.
Commissioned by the 'Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst' and premiered on Dec. 17, at De IJsbreker, Amsterdam
by the Eoos Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ernst van Tiel.
Dedicated to Bas Blomhert and the Hague Wind Ensemble 'Oktopus'.
Includes a double bass and trumpet to the regular dwq.
Duration: 5 min.
Gilbert can be reached for information about his arrangements at Gilbert Dejean, 50 Park
Terrace East Apt. 7B, New York NY 10034 or by phone at: (212) 569-9385, or on e-mail at:
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Feldmayr, Johann Georg, 1756-1834.
Partitas.
Double wind quintet plus a 3rd horn and double bass.
There are variety of these and the information about them is spotty but the manuscripts are
held by the Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Hofbibliothek.
Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich, 1765-1814.
[Fanchon das Leyerma?dchen; arr.]
Fanchon : due clarinetti, due oboe, due flauti, due fagotti, due corni, trompa et contra basso.
Excerpts from the opera arranged by the composers for double wind quintet plus trumpet and double bass.
Jacob, Gordon, 1895-1984.
Old wine in new bottles : four old English tunes arranged for wind instruments / Gordon Jacob.
London : Oxford University Press, c1960.
For 2 flutes (2d doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, double bassoon, ad lib., 2 horns, and 2 trumpets (optional).
Written August 19, 1958 and premiered April 4, 1959 at St Bees Festival by the BBC Northern Orchestra,
conducted by Stanford Robinson.
The wraggle taggle gipsies -- The three ravens -- Begone, dull care -- Early one morning.
1 score (54 p.) ; 22 x 30 cm. + 13 parts ; 30 cm. (The Nieuwenhuis selection for windensemble)
"Dedicated to the Triebensee Wind Ensemble".
Edition Compusic 261.
I don't know if any published picked up this Compusic title, but it is held by a number of US libraries including Library of
Congress, UC Santa Barbara, Northwestern, University of Miami, and others; also held by one Canadian library and a library in Japan.
Keulen, Geert van.
Träff : for double wind quintet, double bass clarinet, and double bass, 1995 / Geert van Keulen.
Amsterdam : Donemus, c1995.
For 2 flutes (piccolos), 2 oboes (2nd also English horn), 2 clarinets (2nd also bass clarinet), contrabass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and double bass.
Duration: ca. 13 min.
Kupkovic, Ladislav, 1936-
Wind serenade in E major / Kupkovic.
1981.
For double wind quintet and 2 trumpets.
Leitermeyer, Fritz
Divertimento for 12 Winds
Standard double wind quintet with trumpet and trombone.
Lessard, John, 1920-
Concerto for wind instruments / John Lessard.
For 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 1 oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, and trombone.
Composed in 1949 and first performaed in New York on 29 January 1951 by the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman
conductor.
Duration: 14 min.
Dedicated "to Mademoiselle Nadia Boulanger".
Allegro -- Adagio -- Allegretto
I found an indication that at one time this was for rental from Theodore Presser, but I don't see it on their web site now.
There is a manuscript copy in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Michalsky, Donal
Fanfare after seventeenth century dances : for 12 winds / by Donal Michalsky.
Delaware Water Gap, Pa., Shawnee Press, c1973.
Standard double wind quintet with trumpet and trombone.
Parts appear to be rental only however, some libraries seem to have the parts in their collection (7 American libraries
and 1 Canadian) so perhaps if you ask to purchase them they will sell them as well. I don't see a Website for Broude Brothers but their e-mail address is: broude@sover.net and
telephone: (413) 458-8131.
The program note on the Sibelius web site says: Here it is if anyone wants it. It does,
however, require some spectacular players, capable of executing rapid cadenzas at will.
Duration: 9 min.
McCauley, William, 1917-1999.
Five miniatures for ten winds / William McCauley.
1968.
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba.
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba.
The copy I found to purchase has a score that is 82 p. and lists no publisher statement
Owen, Harold.
Centennial variations & finale / Hal Owen.
Commissioned by the University of Oregon for its centennial celebration and inauguration of President
William Boyd, January, 1976.
Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-
Serenade no. 1, for 10 wind instruments / Vincent Persichetti.
Bryn Mawr, Penn. : Elkan-Vogel, c1963.
For flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 horns, bassoon, 2 trumpets (in C), trombone, and tuba.
Duration: 10 min.
Written in 1929 this was one of the contraband pieces of the period, written away from the conservatory,
but under the unofficial eye of his composition teacher, Russell King Miller. The chorale melody consists of
two short phrases with no final cadence, and was used for many of the exercises written while he was a student.
This work was premiered at a concert for the alumni of Combs Conservatory in 1929, by students interested in music after Brahms.
Reed, Alfred.
Double wind quintet / Alfred Reed.
[S.l.] : E.B. Marks Music Corp. ; Melville, N.Y. : Exclusive distributor, Belwin Mills, c1975.
Standard woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon) and brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba).
Premiered March 9, 1985 in Strängnäs by Medlemmar ur Strängnäs sinfonietta, conductor by Torgny Hansson.
Duration: 15 min.
I. Marcia - II. Punti -- III. Melodia -- IV. Colore -- V. Frammenti -- VI. Cadenza -- VII. Marcia
Sear, Walter.
Antiphony : for brasses and woodwinds / Walter E. Sear.
Massapequa, N.Y. : Cor Pub. : Distributed by Wiltshire Music Co., c1981.
1 score (29 p.) + 10 parts ; 29 cm.
For wind and brass quintets. The above edition is reproduced from the manuscript, it isn't clear
whether the edition being distributed by Dorn below is this edition or not.
Concertino for wind and brass quintets / Robert Washburn.
New York : Oxford University Press, c1971.
1 score (24 p.) + 10 parts.
This work was commissioned by the Julia E. Crane Alumni Assocation of the State University College at Potsdam, New York,
and first performed in January, 1966, at the New York State School Music Association conference by the Crane Woodwind Quintet
and the Crane Brass Quintet (Harry I. Phillips, John Schorge, directors.
Duration: 7 1/2 min.
Other pieces for double wind quintet but with nonstandard instrumentation.
Gia piangi nel dolore : arrangement for double wind quintet of a madrigal of Gessualdo di Venoce (1998) / Dimitris Andrikopoulos.
1998.
For 2 oboes, English horn, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone.
Based on the madrigal of the same name, this piece has a modal character, using the melodic
motives and orchestrating them in the faster and energetic parts and in the most harmonic, lyric
passages. Uses the almost chromatic counterpoint of Gesualdo, prolonging some notes and getting
more chromatic harmonic fields.
Duration: 4 min., 20 sec.
Available from the composer.
Arrieu, Claude, 1903-1990.
Dixtuor, pour instruments à vent / Claude Arrieu.
[Paris] : G. Billaudot, c1970.
For piccolo, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, horn, trumpet, and trombone.
Written in 1967.
Plate no.: MR1198B.
Blumenthal, Casimir von, 1787-1849.
Harmonie in C / Casimir von Blumenthal.
1819.
For 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and 2 trumpets.
Manuscript parts reside in the Moravske Muzeum in Brno, Czech Replublic (A.35.153).
Chita, Gian Paolo.
Octopus line : for 10 wind instruments / G.P. Chita.
Edipan, ???
For flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoon, horn, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones.
Serenade in F for wind instruments, op. 29 / Franz Reizenstein.
London : Boosey & Hawkes, c1977.
1 score (113 p.) + 10 parts.
For flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoon, and double bass.
Composed in 1951 and first performed at the Cheltenham Festival by the London Wind Players,
conducted by Harry Blech. Broadcast in 1952 on the B.B.C.'s special Thursday concerts. This piece
was later reworked as an orchestral version, op. 29a adding a second flute, strings and timpani.
Allegro ma non troppo, Fugato (4:20)
Gemini (5:50)
Concertante for flute, Scherzo (4:10)
Alla marcia (4:00)
Finale, "Retrospect, Tarantella (7:50)
Plate no.: B&H 20281
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Entr'acte no. 3 : from Rosamunde / Franz Schubert ; arr. Willy Hautvast.
2006.
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 B flat clarinets, E flat alto clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons.
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