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Month: February 2024

Essays on Composition

104. Whitwell Transcriptions

Posted on February 2, 2024 by David Whitwell

Not included here are numerous modern editions I have made of early original band music and which are all listed in my Resume.  Here I include only works w...

Essays on Repertoire

89. Anton Reicha, Symphony for Band (1815)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by David Whitwell

I. Adagio-AllegroII. AdagioIII. Maestoso un poco adagioIV. Poco presto I have never been interested in writing for the popular demand. To enlighten the public h...

Essays on Repertoire

90. Richard Wagner, Trauermusik (1844)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by David Whitwell

This score, consisting of music taken from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, Euryanthe, scored for large wind band in 1844 by Wagner, is one of the most impor...

Essays on Repertoire

91. Other important original Wagner band compositions

Posted on February 5, 2024 by David Whitwell

First of all, I believe it is important to acquaint the reader with the fact that Wagner was very familiar with and often heard military band concerts and never...

Essays on Repertoire

92. Robert Schumann’s Beim Abschied zu singen for band and chorus

Posted on February 6, 2024 by David Whitwell

In 1958, while a student at the University of Michigan I auditioned for and was selected as associate first horn in the American Wind Symphony, a summer concert...

Essays on Repertoire

93. Johannes Brahms’ Begräbnisgesang for band and chorus

Posted on February 6, 2024 by David Whitwell

This is an important composition in the repertoire of the band. In part this is so because Brahms wrote very few instrumental compositions, apart from the piano...

Essays on Repertoire

94. Memorial Masterpieces for Band

Posted on February 6, 2024 by David Whitwell

Because wind instruments are more practical for performance outdoors than string instruments, the history of the band includes a great many short works designed...

Essays on Repertoire

95. Original Italian Sinfonias for Band

Posted on February 7, 2024 by David Whitwell

Beginning during the nineteenth century in Italy one finds a very large repertoire of original Sinfonias composed for the various civic bands. These are all one...

Essays on Repertoire

96. Masterpieces in Variation Technique

Posted on February 7, 2024 by David Whitwell

As soon as music began to be performed before a public audience, as opposed to private aristocratic performances, the idea of the soloist performing extempore v...

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