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Wind Band History
Whether used to deepen your personal knowledge of wind band history or as a text for a class you are teaching on the history of the wind band, the following books together comprise the most comprehensive multi-volume history of the wind band ever written. These draw on the history and specific literature of the wind band and follows its development through civic, court, church and military performances, from as far back as the ancient world through the relatively recent nineteenth century.
A Concise History of the Wind Band
Whether used for personal reference or as a text for a class in the history of the wind band this book is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the wind band ever written. This volume draws on the author’s multi-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and follows the development of the wind band through the civic, court, church and military performances of the Ancient World through the nineteenth century.
Length: 414 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
The Wind Band and
Wind Ensemble Before 1500
The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500 is the first volume in Dr. David Whitwell’s ground breaking thirteen volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 326 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
The Renaissance Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble
Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 300 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
The Baroque Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble
Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 258 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble
of the Classical Period
Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the twentieth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 250 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble
Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 248 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
A Catalog of Multi-Part Repertoire
for Wind Instruments or for Undesignated
Instrumentation Before 1600
Whitwell’s meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots to the nineteenth century — an unbroken tradition of wind music that music scholars have never been fully able to appreciate until now. ...
Length: 162 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Baroque Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
Of great significance is the continuation of the church wind ensemble forms of the sixteenth century and the extraordinary multi-movement concert Hautboisten repertoire of the Baroque. The Hautboisten repertoire was a development of the earlier music of the Les Grands Hautbois and directly developed into the Harmoniemusik of the Classical Period. ...
Length: 258 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Classical Period Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
This volume is a companion to the fourth volume in this series, The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble of the Classical Period. Beginning in October 1969, with his series of articles on ‘The Incredible Vienna Octet School,’ David Whitwell became the first scholar to introduce to readers everywhere the long forgotten repertoire called Harmoniemusik. ...
Length: 418 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Nineteenth-Century Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
During the first decades of the nineteenth century one finds continued composition of music for Harmoniemusik. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars there was a new birth of civic bands in Europe and this resulted in numerous original compositions for large concert band. ...
Length: 328 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
A Supplementary Catalog of Wind Band
and Wind Ensemble Repertoire
This volume represents Whitwell?s continuing research in the field of wind band repertoire with a focus on libraries in England and Italy. Because of the earlier political connection between Northern Italy and Austria, the holdings of the civic libraries in Italy offer important contributions to our understanding of the Harmoniemusik Period of Central Europe. ...
Length: 306 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
A Catalog of Wind Repertoire
Before the Twentieth Century
for One to Five Players
The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble has had its focus on the repertoire for ensembles of six or more players. But there is much more to the story of the early professional wind player. His performance of solo repertoire and his participation in smaller wind ensembles reflect the use of such music in smaller palace rooms and in more intimate church performances in particular. ...
Length: 364 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
A Second Supplementary Catalog
of Early Wind Band and
Wind Ensemble Repertoire
The repertoire found in this supplementary volume is the result of visits to specific European collections recommended by other musicians. These include a deserted palace in Hungary, a large Hautboisten collection in Sweden and a visit in Paris with the widow of Charles Koechlin. ...
Length: 252 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Name Index, Volumes 1-12,
The History and Literature of the
Wind Band and Wind Ensemble
This volume includes nearly eight thousand entries — musicians, composers, publishers, historians, royalty, philosophers — a virtual encyclopedia of people who have played a part, big or small, in the creation and growth of the wind band and wind ensemble. ...
Length: 234 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
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