Wind Chamber Music: Winds with Piano and Woodwind Quintets--An Annotated Guide [Hardcover]

Barbera Secrist-Schmedes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1996

Wind Chamber Music: Winds With Piano And Woodwind Quintets is an invaluable reference work for music teachers, professional and amateur musicians, and music students. It will help them create programs by specific ethnic groups, identify the mainstream repertoire, find works appropriate for students, or search for a fun filler piece for a pops concert. This guide lists works in print for woodwind quintet and piano with two to five wind instruments— flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, or horn. The book is divided into five sections: two winds with piano; three winds with piano; four winds with piano; five winds with piano; and wind quintet. Each entry provides composer birth and death dates, composition date, publisher, nationality, recording availability, instrumentation, length, and general description of the compositional style.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A very thorough resource, especially for woodwind quintets..If you are looking for music for winds and piano or woodwind quintet this writer recommends you start with this book. --International Double Reed Society Magazine, Rebecca Scarnati

A handy guide listing works in print for wood wind quintet and piano with two to five wind instruments... (Reference and Research Book News )

...fine coverage of twentieth-century composers. (Arba )

About the Author

Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, founding artistic director of the highly acclaimed Pandean Players wind quintet, has been a professional musician and arts administrator for twenty years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press (October 10, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810831112
• ISBN-13: 978-0810831117
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,817,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Barbera Secrist, founder of the Pandean Players Chamber Ensemble and Director of Orchestras at Lovinggood Middle School, lived in Washington, DC and New York City for nearly a decade after completing a Bachelor of Music degree at Georgia State University. While living in the Northeast she performed with the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, Wolf Trap Orchestra, National Symphony, Amato Opera, and the American Chamber Orchestra. Since returning to Atlanta in 1985, Ms. Secrist has performed with the Knoxville (TN), Columbus (GA), Macon (GA), Atlanta Ballet and Columbia (SC) symphonies and was a member of the Augusta Symphony for thirteen years. Ms. Secrist holds a Master of Arts degree from Florida State University's renowned School of Music and has served on the music faculties of Georgia Tech, Morris Brown College and Agnes Scott College. A published author of two books about chamber music, Ms. Secrist served on the Georgia Council for the Arts music panel for twelve years. With the Pandean Players, Ms. Secrist performed more than 2,000 chamber music concerts during a twenty five year career as a professional musician.