chamber music survey
fmea session 1.9.2020
chamber music resources
Getting started - why try this in your ensembles, and ideas to implement:
- 47 Tips to Facilitate Chamber Music in Your Band Program "In our summer survey, we asked Band Directors Talk Shop readers 'How do you encourage and facilitate chamber music in your band?' With over 300 responses to the survey, we put together these 47 ideas to help you improve small ensembles in your program."
- Why Chamber Music
- Practical Guide to Chamber Music
- Chamber Music 101 - a guide to get started by Francesca Arnone and Amy Collins
gems on the Fba list
FLUTE QUARTETS - BOLD, IN GREEN, PERFORMED AT FMEA 1/9/20
Grade 3
Four Dances (any 3 Mvts) - Chapman; available as a PDF or hard copy; 4 flutes or 2 + alto + bass
Expandable Duets - Falcon/Anden; available as PDF or hard copy; 3 flutes + alto (or 4 flutes); work well as duets and trios also
Lyric Poem - McKay lyrical, balanced parts
*Simple Gifts - Hagaar; Kendor Music, available online as PDF purchase through Virtual Sheet Music.
Grade 4
Symphony No. 1 (4c, Opt. A,b) - Behnke
Grade 5
Flutes En Vacances (mvts 1,2,3,4) - Casterede (also works as a trio omitting part 4)
Suite Italienne (4 Fl In C) (1,2,3,4) - Desport
The Year of the Rabbit - Dorff
Quatuor - Dubois
*Falconer (Any 2) - McMichael
Grade 6
Jour d'Ete a La Montagne (any 3) - Bozza
*Grand Quartet in D Major, Op. 92 - Kohler - on IMSLP
SAX QUARTETS - BOLD, IN GREEN, PERFORMED AT FMEA 1/9/20
Grade 3
*Quartet De L'arlesienne - Bizet/Johnson $8 from JW Pepper, (All four movements), AATB
Gavotte from Symphony No. 4 - Boyce/Vedeski, AATB
Art of the Fugue - Bach/Pollock, AATB
Grade 4
Comedy for Saxophone - Christensen - $7, AATB
Fanfare, Air, and Finale - Frackenpohl - $13 from JW Pepper
Prelude & Fugue in E Minor - Bach/Eymann - $8 from JW Pepper, AATB
*Mississippi Rag - Krell/Frackenphol $12 from JW Pepper, AATB
Grade 5
Purism and Surrealism - Dedrick
*Sailor’s Hornpipe - Cowell - $25, AATB
Grade 6
*Bozza Andante & Scherzo - $32 from JW Pepper
Primier Quartor - Singelee
Grade 7
Quatuor - Dubois
MIXED WOODWIND TRIOS - PERFORMED AT FMEA 1/9/20
Grade 3 - Finale from Trio #107 - Haydn (Virtual Sheet Music), m.85-end
Grade 4 - Trio in G minor - Ostransky (Rubank), 2nd movement, m. 35-66
Grade 5 - Divertimento - Arnold (Paterson) movement 2, all
Grade 5 - Aubade - De Wailly (IMSLP), m. 1-22
gems not on the fba list BUT WORTH NOTING
Flute Quartets
Bassignwaighte, Sarah (b. 1967) Echoes of the Ancients; 4 flutes, 2:40. Purchase score samples, description, performance links
Ewazen, Eric (b. 1954) - Harmony in Blue and Gold; 4 movements for 3 flutes (1 dbl picc) + alto, 18:00 Purchase
Clarke, Ian (b. 1964 ) - Zig, Zag, Zoo; 4 flutes (with optional easy 5th part), 3:00 Purchase
Lennon/McCartney, Arr. Orris Eleanor Rigby; soundfile on purchase link; 3 flutes + alto, 2:50 Purchase
Lombardo, Ricky (b. 1946) Canzone; 2 flutes (1 picc/1 flute) + alto + bass (or 4 C flute parts/optionalcombinations) Purchase
Sanborn, Adrian - Firestorm; 4 flutes, 2:00; Purchase
Yagisawa, Satoshi (b. 1975)
Sax Quartets:
Del Borgo
Schmitt
Bassignwaighte, Sarah (b. 1967) Echoes of the Ancients; 4 flutes, 2:40. Purchase score samples, description, performance links
Ewazen, Eric (b. 1954) - Harmony in Blue and Gold; 4 movements for 3 flutes (1 dbl picc) + alto, 18:00 Purchase
Clarke, Ian (b. 1964 ) - Zig, Zag, Zoo; 4 flutes (with optional easy 5th part), 3:00 Purchase
Lennon/McCartney, Arr. Orris Eleanor Rigby; soundfile on purchase link; 3 flutes + alto, 2:50 Purchase
Lombardo, Ricky (b. 1946) Canzone; 2 flutes (1 picc/1 flute) + alto + bass (or 4 C flute parts/optionalcombinations) Purchase
Sanborn, Adrian - Firestorm; 4 flutes, 2:00; Purchase
Yagisawa, Satoshi (b. 1975)
- Coloratura; 4 flutes, 4:30 Purchase very appealing to players and listeners
- Fioritura; 4 flutes, 4:30 Purchase
Sax Quartets:
Del Borgo
Schmitt
finding Music
United Music and Media Publishing Large inventory for various ensembles, PDF print available, soundfiles/videos, score samples
https://www.clarinetinstitute.com/chamber-music.html links to free music, various ensembles including wind quintets
https://www.woodwindchambermusicrepertoire.com various ensembles, with links to other sources, categories of mixed ensembles with links to scores and videos, links to living composers
Wonderful Winds Music for flute ensembles (primarily), other like woodwind ensembles; PDF scores for purchase, with examples of print material and sound files/videos
TrevCo Varner Music searchable by instrumentation for mixed ensembles
Flute Quartets and More
Flute World Alphabetical listing by composer, with score examples and video examples
Flute Quartets Mozart/Arr. Koda - From the Magic Flute, Tico Tico, Ilio Volante - Seasons, and many more free scores
United Music and Media Publishing (Alry, Falls House Press, and others)
Score Vivo mixed ensembles available, but links flute quartet category; PDF purchases, with examples of score and sound files
Wonderful Winds direct page to quartets
United Music and Media Publishing Large inventory for various ensembles, PDF print available, soundfiles/videos, score samples
https://www.clarinetinstitute.com/chamber-music.html links to free music, various ensembles including wind quintets
https://www.woodwindchambermusicrepertoire.com various ensembles, with links to other sources, categories of mixed ensembles with links to scores and videos, links to living composers
Wonderful Winds Music for flute ensembles (primarily), other like woodwind ensembles; PDF scores for purchase, with examples of print material and sound files/videos
TrevCo Varner Music searchable by instrumentation for mixed ensembles
Flute Quartets and More
Flute World Alphabetical listing by composer, with score examples and video examples
Flute Quartets Mozart/Arr. Koda - From the Magic Flute, Tico Tico, Ilio Volante - Seasons, and many more free scores
United Music and Media Publishing (Alry, Falls House Press, and others)
Score Vivo mixed ensembles available, but links flute quartet category; PDF purchases, with examples of score and sound files
Wonderful Winds direct page to quartets
reading list
Articles to help you delve further - feel free to suggest others!
REFERENCES/READING LIST
REFERENCES/READING LIST
- Barrett, Janet R. "Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum." Music Educators Journal 91, no. 4 (2005): 21-25.
- Berg, Margaret H. "Promoting "Minds-On" Chamber Music Rehearsals." Music Educators Journal 95, no. 2 (2008): 48-55.
- Brown, Michael R. “Chamber Music for Better Bands.” Teaching Music 5, No. 5 (1998): 38-39, 72.
- Dackow, Sandra Katherine. “A Proposal for Chamber Music in the High School Curriculum.” Music Educators Journal 67, no. 9 (1981): 38– 41.
- Latten, James E. "Chamber Music for Every Instrumentalist." Music Educators Journal 87, no. 5 (2001): 45-53.
- Neidlinger, Erica. "Idea Bank: Chamber Music within the Large Ensemble." Music Educators Journal 97, no. 3 (2011): 22-23.
- Rutkowski, Joseph. "Starting a High School Chamber Music Group." Music Educators Journal 86, no. 6 (2000): 23-27.
- Silverman, Paul L. "The Psychological Aspects of Chamber Music." American Music Teacher 35, no. 6 (1986): 16-17.
- Stubbs, Darrel W. "Chamber Music's Lesson in Performing Confidence." Music Educators Journal 70, no. 3 (1983): 34-37.
- Weidner, Brian N. "Developing Musical Independence in a High School Band." Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 205 (2015): 71-86.