ISBN: 9781581061703 - string quartet no. 12 in f major, op. 96 ("american") for wind quintet: the new york woodwind quintet library series (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - (Southern Music Woodwind). Antonin Dvorak composed the quartet in F Major, op. 96 'The American' in the summer of 1893 during his summer vacation in Spillvale, Iowa. From 1892-1895, Dvorak served as director of the National Conservatory of Music in NYC. He had been interested in 'American Music' and felt that Native American and Afro-American music could inspire an 'American Music' distinct from European influences. He was inspired by (Henry Thacker) Harry Burleigh, his student in New York and one of the first Afro-American composers. While it is impossible to know why Georges Barrere chose Dvorak's F Major Quartet to transcribe for Woodwind Quintet, we may easily hazard several guesses. Firstly, it was a work much beloved by the public and very respected by professional musicians. As an immigrant himself, Barrere could easily sympathize with Dvorak's desire to create a distinctly American work. A work in the key of F Major, it lent itself easily to wind transcription. While known as the Barrere transcription, it turns out that Samuel Baron, one of Barrere's most famous students and a long time member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, who has to his credit a long list of wonderful transcriptions for woodwind quintet, played a significant role in the transcription.…

Zustand: New. The New York Woodwind Quintet Library Series|Neidich, Ch., ed|American Quartet.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 (American) for Wind Quintet | The New York Woodwind Quintet Library Series | Charles Neidich | Taschenbuch | Partitur + Stimmen | Englisch | 2013 | Southern Music Company | EAN 9781581061703 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …