Woodwind Quintet

SKU: SU.32040050

For Woodwind Quintet. Composed by Amy Riebs Mills. Woodwinds, Woodwind Ensemble, Chamber Music, Woodwind Quartet/Quintet. Score & Parts. Subito Music Corporation #32040050. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.32040050).

Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon) Duration: 6' Composed: 2012 Published by: Amy Mills Music, LLC 3 movements I. Seven Toes Down II. En Pointe III. Muddy Boots This charming suite has three short movements, each with its own character. The suite bursts open with breathless energy. Seven Toes Down is modal, in 7/8 time, with people dancing in bare feet on bare ground, so vigorously that it kicks up the dust. En Pointe opens with a lovely waltz, then it focuses in on the tiny, delicate movements of a ballerina high up on her toes. Muddy Boots is big strong guys, covered with dirt from a hard day of work, practicing one-upmanship. Different players have the chance to show what they can do, surrounded by their friends. Then we catch another glimpse of the ballerina before closing playfully with Seven Toes Down. Difficulty Level: 4 (Advanced) See composer website for audio sample.

Wind Quintet

SKU: FG.55011-508-8

Composed by Kimmo Hakola. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-508-8. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-508-8).

ISBN 9790550115088.

Kimmo Hakola's Wind Quintet op. 96 (2017) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Festival. The composer sees that making the ensemble ultimately breathe and express itself as an organic, coherent subject should be the aim in composing for wind quintet. The normal chamber-music configuration is not a sufficient basis for me in composing a wind quintet: the instruments have to be compressed, reduced, even crushed together so that, in pairs and different combinations, they produce new, viable audio units. Collision often generates something new. Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging sound and fury and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.

Wind quintet

SKU: FG.55011-295-7

Composed by Jennah Vainio. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-295-7).

ISBN 9790-55011-295-7.

Odin's Beard was commissioned by I Fiati Italiani quintet, made up of musicians of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan. Visual impressions give often an impetus to Vainio's composing. In Odin's Beard they are connected to the characters of the Nordic mythology, including Odin and his son Thor.

Wind Quintet

SKU: ST.C423

Composed by Francois Couperin. Wind & brass music. Clifton Edition #C423. Published by Clifton Edition (ST.C423).

ISBN 9790570814237.

Four contrasting movements. Giocoso, Sostenuto, Allegro and Comodo

The Couperin family’s influence extended over five generations and was as important to French music as the Bachs’ to German music. François 1668-1733 (known as ‘le Grand’) was, like his father, organist of St. Gervais and in 1693 became organist to the King at Versailles.

He excelled as a composer of keyboard music and produced an instruction book L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin, which is valuable for the light it throws on contemporary practice in harpsichord playing.

J. S. Bach knew and admired François Couperin’s music and the two did correspond. Alas, the letters disappeared when, (according to an article in Grove) they were used as lids for jampots!

Arranged by Bryan Kelly
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP1115.