Compatible Quartets for Winds

Description

Flute, Oboe — In my experience as an instrumental music teacher, I found that having students play insmall chamber music groups was a very beneficial exercise to improve the student’s overallmusicianship. A simple form of chamber music is a quartet. It is an opportunity for thestudent to play with other students of similar abilities. Aspects of playing such as tonequality, intonation, technique and ensemble skills can be developed during the process ofstudying quartets.These quartets are different in that they have many different performance options since allof the books in this series are compatible. As a former middle-school band director, I alwayshad students that wanted to come to the band room during lunch or after school, studentswho just wanted to play music with their friends. At the time, that was not possible, sincethere was very little material available that was compatible with all of the wind instruments.This book helps takes care of that. A student can now grab three of their friends nomatter what instrument they play and have hours of fun playing quartets together. Mostimportantly, they will learn something in the process.The quartets have been generally placed in the book in order of difficulty and cover a rangeof keys that are appropriate for this ability level. Special care was given to making sure thatall parts were on a similar ability level. Also, most of the musical markings are attached toboth systems, and the point size of the music was considered for ease of reading.It is my hope that this collection will help to stimulate and enhance the musicianship of theperformers. It was a pleasure for me to have the opportunity to put together this collection.I hope it is a useful tool for you for years to come. The Compatible Ensemble Series allows chamber groups to play together, no matter the instrumentation or who wants to play melody. This collection contains 21 quartets for wind instruments in a variety of styles from classical, to folk, to original compositions, giving players the opportunity to mix-and-match instrumentation and line played, making the combinations almost limitless.