EXPANSIONS for Woodwind Quintet
Harold Blumenfeld
About this work:
Short but eventful woodwind quintet in which melodic subject is expanded and contracted laterally. Compact neo-classic / neo-polyphonic piece. Composed in early attempt to avoid general woodwind quintet sound of rattling of dry bones. And to avoid patness of contemporary fugues which harp all too obviously on identically repeated fugue subjects.......
>former pub: MMB Music, now closed... Published by COMPOSER: blumenf@wustl.edu
Score $15. <<<......
Sound Bite from recording by York Quintet of Queens College, City Univ of New York......
Composer knows only two quintets which surmount wdwnd quintet aridity: the quintet of John Harbison, its palette enlarged by incorporating alternate instruments into the mix; and of course, the delightful, 'grosse' "Kleine Kammermusik" of Hindemith. Oases in a dry land......
The sheer brevity of my little quintet have afforded it some immunity from the problem.
Year composed: 1964
Duration: 00:05:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Woodwind Quintet
Instrumentation: ,1 Flute soloist(s), ,1 Oboe soloist(s), ,1 Clarinet soloist(s), ,1 Bassoon soloist(s), ,1 Horn in F soloist(s)
Instrumentation notes: Frequently performed short neo-classic / neo-baroque fugal piece for medium which usually sounds dry. Fugue subject mutates.
Sound bite, score pages on site.