At 08:04 AM 10/8/06 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Maybe I should be a little more specific - our wind ensemble >uses pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns, i.e. >apart from the flutes, the "classical" wind band (although we >do play lots of modern music). If a particular piece calls for >extra players (one piece had a solo trumpet part I remember) >then we invite players in, but 99% of the time we are just a >wind octet/decet.
This has been an interesting discussion. Definitions are either very flexible or have changed. I always assumed a wind ensemble was still what I played in in the 1960s at Rutgers -- essentially the band, but with the marching instruments replaced and extended by concert instruments. Tubas instead of sousaphones, French horns instead of whatever they played (I forget), plus alto and bass clarinets (I played second bass clarinet), oboes and English horns, etc., and concert percussion (including timpani). There were 100 members in the maching band. I remember the wind ensemble as smaller (maybe 60). The pieces I have written for wind ensemble assume a large complement of diverse instruments. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
