The Wind Ensemble Catalog (Music Reference Collection) [Hardcover]

Jon A. Gillaspie (Author), Marshall Stoneham (Author), David Lindsey Clark (Author), Marshall Lindsey Stoneham (Author), David Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0313253943 | ISBN-13: 978-0313253942

As a companion to The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide, this catalog provides a comprehensive listing of wind ensemble works from 1650 to the present. These two volumes will be completed with a third, The Wind Ensemble Thematic Catalog 1700-1900. Representing more than 20 years of research through libraries, monasteries, and castles, the authors used primary sources when possible rather than relying on secondary sources. The authors collected a vast array of information from public and private international collections. This catalog is an exhaustive guide to international wind ensemble collections. The authors have been careful to match up various versions of the same work, and, for the first time, arrangements--an important and large part of the repertoire--are dealt with in a systematic fashion. Unique in its extensive documentation and reliance on primary sources, The Wind Ensemble Catalog is an important research tool for scholars and musicians.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A powerful resource, this catalog lists more than 13,000 original compositions and arrangements by more than 2,4000 composers and arrangers -- works for approximately five to 18 winds that include at least one pair of wind instruments (hence standard woodwind quintets are excluded)....The authors, who have done extensive primary research throughout Europe, including newly accessible collections in Eastern Europe, seem justified in their claim to include more that 90 percent of the early repertoire. They include a number of works and composers not represented in their Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide. That volume, the present one, and the authors' forthcoming The Wind Ensemble Thematic Catalog 1700-1900 will together form the most current and comprehensive guide to wind chamber music....For all academic libraries.”–Choice

“...provides academic libraries with a much-needed contemporary reference tool and established heretofore unmatched bibliographic control over international Harmoniemusik.”–Reference & User Services Quarterly

“Essential reading for wind ensembles, professional or good amateur. Rarely do such comprehensively researched and detailed books appear.”–Pan Magazine/Winds

About the Author

JON A. GILLASPIE is a freelance musicologist and music cataloger as well as a composer, arranger, record producer, and experienced bassoonist and keyboard player.

MARSHALL STONEHAM is Massey Professor of Physics, University College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chief Scientist of AEA Technology.

DAVID LINDSEY CLARK is a former music librarian to Oxfordshire County Libraries, Oxford, England.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 472 pages
• Publisher: Greenwood Press (February 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0313253943
• ISBN-13: 978-0313253942
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,837,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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