Woodwind
Quintets (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn,
bassoon)
5th Annual Henri Tomasi International
Competition for Woodwind Quintets
Wikipedia entry on "Wind Quintet" -
brief history, list of composers, repertoire,
prominent quintets, links.
A Survey of Woodwind Quintet
Literature - article by Gordon Pugh
On Composing for Woodwind Quintet-
article by Zeke Hecker
Annotated Bibliography of Double Wind
Quintet Music - by Catherine Gerhart
The Wind Quintet in Canada: Legacy and
Promise - article by Drew Stephen
A Survey of Woodwind Quintet
Literature -
article by Gordon Pugh
The Quintessential Quintet: Using the
Woodwind Quintet to Improve Your Instrumental Music
Program - a pdf
file of a presentation by the Montpelier Wind Quintet at
the Midwest Band Clinic in 2003.
Nonstandard Woodwind Quintet
Repertoire - a
list compiled by Francesca Arnone
Original [Woodwind] Quintet
- repertoire list by Mike
Slatkin
Woodwind Quintet Repertoire
- pdf list by Andrew
Brandt in 2000 - 414 pages!
Dissertations
Laing, Millard. “Anton Reicha’s Quintets for
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon.” Ed.D. diss.,
University of Michigan, 1952.
Woodwind Quintet
Sheet Music
Check out the free WWQ scores at
freescores.com.
CD ROMs of Horn Music
- As long as it lasts...
the "Clarinet Institute of Los Angeles" is offering
quite the deal(s) on eBay: a CD stuffed with (public
domain) horn music for $10 plus $3.85 shipping.
Everything is in pdf format - print out whatever you
want. A ton of stuff: 23 books of Horn studies
(Kopprasch, Kling, Maxime Alphonse, etc), 80 pieces for
Horn and Piano (piano parts included) - a lot of
standard repertoire and some lesser known stuff, 14
duets for two horns, 6 trios, 23 Horn Quartets, 77 Brass
Quartets and 52 pieces of Chamber Music - Mozart
Divertimenti, Octets, Strauss Wind ensembles, etc, etc.
Have a look as well at their Woodwind Quintet CD ROM -
same deal. Similar CD ROM of brass ensemble music
available here.
Reicha Quintets - according to Artturi Lehtiö, 6 of
the 24 woodwind quintets by Anton Reicha can be found at
the University of Rochester research database. You can
find other interesting free music there as well if you
search.
Lehtiö also says to "look in the Royal Danish Library
for more woodwind
quintets. "Just use the search or look through the
special themes and repertoire (a link on the left side
of the page). You can also find music for different
sized horn ensembles there including trios, quartets and
sextets by Dauprat."
International Opus offers an unusual assortment of
woodwind quintets, with categories including African,
Arabic, Asian, Australian, Classical, Latin-American,
Operatic transcriptions, and more.
Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition
- one of the best
publishers of music for horn and anything. High quality
sheet music, much of it not easily obtainable elsewhere
Trillenium Music Co.
- Not a huge selection,
but a handy source for quintets by Reicha, Wilder, and
others. A real find.
