Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide

Subjects:

• The Arts » Classical Music

Awards:

• International Association of Music Libraries-UK, C.B. Oldman Prize

Reviews:

• Essential reading for wind ensembles, professional or good amateur. Rarely do such comprehensively researched and detailed books appear.
  —Pan Magazine/Winds 2001
• This volume stands as an update and improvement upon previous attempts at compiling the history of wind ensembles....This work would be of great use to any academic library supporting a music performance to history program.
  —Reference and User Services Quarterly
• [L]isteners wishing to acquire recordings of Beethoven's complete wind music will have a difficult task without a resource guide such as this one. Performers who wish to expand their repertory will also benefit from this book.
  —The Beethoven Journal

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Phenomenon of Wind Harmony
• Common Ground: Music for All Occasions
• English-Speaking Countries
• France
• German-Speaking Countries and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Italy
• The Periphery: Russia, Scandinavia, Iberia, and Distant Empires
• References and Notes
• Composers and Arrangers: Biographical Information
• Introduction
• Biographical Information
• Instruments and Performance Practice
• Development of Wind Instruments
• Aspects of Authenticity
• References and Notes
• Index