The Wind Ensemble Catalog: (Music Reference Collection)

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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Abbreviations Guide to the Catalog Library and Archive Sigla Alternative Names and Places Main Composer Sequence Anonymous Works Arrangements Appendix: Alternative Opera and Ballet Titles

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. His extensive travels researching into primary sources of wind harmony total more than three years in the field, and his own extensive collection includes the former wind harmony of the Lowenstein Kapelle. He has composed and arranged widely for wind ensemble, including many works for the Dorchester Wind Players. MARSHALL STONEHAM is Massey Professor of Physics, University College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chief Scientist of AEA Technology. He has written extensively, not only on the physical sciences, but on music as well. He has taken the opportunity to visit libraries in many countries when on travels associated with his scientific work. He is an experienced horn player and the founder and organizer of the Dorchester Wind Players, which, over the past 20 years, has played many works of the genre documented in this catalog. DAVID LINDSEY CLARK is a former music librarian to Oxfordshire County Libraries, Oxford, England. He has been involved in the revision of the music catalogs of a number of libraries, including the Bodleian of Oxford University. Now retired, he continues his bibliographical work exploring the repertoire of music about which he has written for many years.

Review :
.,."provides academic libraries with a much-needed contemporary reference tool and established heretofore unmatched bibliographic control over international Harmoniemusik."-Reference & User Services Quarterly ?...provides academic libraries with a much-needed contemporary reference tool and established heretofore unmatched bibliographic control over international Harmoniemusik.?-Reference & User Services Quarterly ?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 ?Essential reading for wind ensembles, professional or good amateur. Rarely do such comprehensively researched and detailed books appear.?-Pan Magazine/Winds ..."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 "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