This library was developed for an established ensemble that Plays many weddings and parties. Many of these works are suitable for concert performance, although they were intended primarily as incidental music.
Great care was taken to make them enjoyable to sight-read, so they are very well cued, and page turns in the wind parts have been worked out carefully. (The use of a page turner, however, is recommended for the keyboard Player.) With a few notable exceptions mentioned below, the keyboard part (designed for a portable electronic unit with piano, harpsichord and pipe organ stops) is accompaniment only and very simple in nature.
While conceived for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Keyboard, most if not all of these arrangements will work to a greater or lesser extent substituting string instruments on any or all of the wind parts, or using Clarinet on the Oboe part. If this is your plan, a B Flat transposition of the Oboe part can be substituted at no charge, for an additional part (Oboe at pitch as well as Clarinet in B Flat) please add $5.
Supplied as a Keyboard Part/Score in 8½ X 14 horizontal format, and three parts in standard 8½ X 11 vertical format, covered in hard stock and plastic bound.

ANTONIN DVORAK:      Wind Serenade
     A rather long work, Dvorak Serenade originally scored for a small orchestra without violins, this provides a very deferent sound from most of the other pieces in the small collection. In true classic serenade from it includes an opening march, a minuet and trio (scherzo), a melodious Andante (with significantly more development than is usual in this form), and rollicking rondo a a finale.

Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts, $60.

G. F. HANDEL:      Selections
     Includes the Fire-Water Suite, a collection of seven pieces drawn from the Water Musick and the Musick for the Royal Fireworks, and a truly marvelous Trio Sonata in G Minor. We have found several of these pieces very useful as processionals and recessionals at weddings (check out "La Paix" and "Rejouissance"), plus they are all fun to Play.

Keyboard/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $40.

SCOTT JOPLIN:      Three Famous Rags

      This is the turn-of-the-20th-Century master's best known stuff. "The Entertainer", "Easy Winners", and "Maple Leaf Rag" all in one place, this collection is probably more fun than any grown-up should be allowed to have. These are great as a change of pace or encore at a concert, at children's concerts, or at parties. The piano parts are significantly more involved than is the norm for these arrangements, and while they are certainly not beyond the reach of the average pianist, they may not be suitable for sight-reading by any but accomplished professionals.

Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $40.

W. A. MOZART:

    Concertante Variations:

           From the Sinfonia Concertante for winds and orchestra, this is a very enjoyable 10 minutes of Mozart that few people have heard before. All of the wind Players have their moments as is to be expected, but there are a couple of surprises for the keyboard Player as well that he/she might want to investigate before sight-reading.

Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $35.

     Suite from the Gran Partita

          Also known as the 13 Winds Serenade, the original version of this is rarely heard due to its truly bizarre instrumentation, which is very unfortunate because there is some magnificent music here. While not nearly as effective as the original, these arrangements of four movements from the Partita are still very pleasant to listen to, and all kinds of fun to Play, with the added benefit of being almost certainly new to the audience and possibly the Players as well.

Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $40.

     Quartet for Piano and Winds, K. 452
The original score of this work, for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano has been thought by some to be the finest piece of classical wind chamber music extant. Mozart himself, in a letter to his father, called it perhaps his best work. This arrangement tries to maintain the original character as much as possible. The piano part has not been changed at all with the exception of two very minor additions totaling only about six bars in the left hand. NOBODY will want to sight-read this piano part in performance, trust me on this one.

Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $35.

OPERA SUITES:
     Selections from some of Mozart's operas in instrumental arrangements. Great fun and quite effective to play a background or concert pieces, these are enjoyed as much by opera lovers as they are by folks who are hearing this enchanting music for the first time. Each is about 45 minutes long.

      Suite from "The Marriage of Figaro"
               Thirteen selections, and possibly my own personal favorite of the entire chamber music library. Some of Mozart's greatest music, what else can I say?

     Keyboard/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $60.

     Suite from "Cosi fan Tutte"
                Eleven movements, including an abbreviated version of the Overture. Not as often heard as Figaro, but every bit as interesting.

     Keyboard/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $60

     Suite from "The Abduction form the Seraglio"
               Eight selections, includes the full concert version of the overture. This opera ("Singspiel", actually) is rarely performed because of the difficulty of assembling a cast. The soprano is required to sing high E's and the bass to sing low E Flats, but we don't really need to worry about that, do we? This is terrific Mozart, probably new to most people, and all kinds of fun, as it includes an 18th century European's idea of what Turkish music would sound like. The outside movements require piccolo in the flute part.

Keyboard/Score and Flute (Piccolo), Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $60.

"Wolfie's Night at the Opera" Collection     All Three Suites $150.

     Modeste Mouusorgsky:
     "Pictures at an Exhibition"
               Although originally written for Piano solo, this famous work is muck more familiar in the form of Rimsky-Korsakoff's landmark adaptation for full symphony orchestra. Obviously, this quartet is not the same thing, but our arrangement does provide a very pleasing contrast to both Piano-only and the huge-orchestra versions. I'm probably biased, but I think it works quite well. Piccolo is called for in the Flute part, and the oboist will need an English Horn.

Keyboard/Score and Flute (Piccolo), Oboe (English Horn), and BassoonParts $60.

JOHANN STRAUSS:
 Four Concert Waltzes

The collection includes "Artist's Life" Waltzes, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", "Emperor" Waltzes, and "Tales from the Vienna Woods". Each runs about nine minutes and they are all excellent pieces to have for use as background - dinner music for parties and weddings.
Not accidentally, they are also all kinds of fun to Play for the wind Players, though one must admit the keyboard part is of the oom-pah-pah variety. The flute part for "Artist's Life" has piccolo-optional sections, and "Tales from the Vienna Woods" requires piccolo in the Flute part and English Horn in the Oboe part.

"Artist's Life" Waltzes
"Blue Danube" Waltzes
"Emperor" Waltzes
"Tales from the Vienna Woods"

Any separately, Piano/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $40

Such a Deal Dept.                               Full set of all 4                 $150

G. P. TELEMANN

     Two Quartets
These two works by the very popular baroque composer (he beat out J. S. Bach for several plum jobs in the 1730's) are both melodious and historically interesting. Originally composed as dinner music for Flute, Oboe (or Recorder), Violin, and Figured Bass (the original collection was called "Table Music") they still work very well in that role, but are also well suited to concert performance. The Bassoon part in these arrangements is an equal solo voice, not to be confused with the Continuo part of the originals.
 Quartet in G Major features the Oboe, although all of the other voices will certainly not become bored. The last movement has always reminded me of a flock of chirping birds humorously imitated. A very charming piece overall.

Keyboard/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $30.
Quartet in D Minor is a more serious work in nature, although still very melodious. This arrangement has the rather virtuosic alto recorder part in place of the Oboe. The recorder part can be supplied at pitch (can also be Played by another flute or violin) or transposed to F (allowing use of soprano fingerings on an alto recorder.) The arrangement is also available in a Flute-Oboe-Bassoon version, which differs slightly from the first version.
Keyboard/Score and Three parts, Flute, Recorder (Flute or Violin), & Bassoon $30.
Please specify form of Recorder part. Extra part (both at-pitch and transposed version) add $5
Flute, Oboe, and Bassoon $30.

Such a Deal Dept. Both quartets (Specify how you want the D Minor) $50

TRADITIONAL WEDDING MUSIC

If you Play at weddings, sooner or later you're going to need some or all of these. Includes the five pieces we've had requested most regularly.

Bach: Arioso Also known as the Air on the G String
         Chorale Prelude "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring"

Pachelbel: Canon in D Major

Mendelssohn: Wedding March from the Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Wagner: Bridal Chorus from"Lohengrin", (the old "Here Comes the Bride")

Keyboard/Score and Flute, Oboe, & Bassoon Parts $40.

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