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A Concise History of the Wind Band

A Concise History of the Wind Band

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Availability:In StockContributor:Craig Dabelstein (Editor), David WhitwellPublish date:2011-01-04Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Whitwell PublishingISBN-13:9781936512065ISBN-10:1936512068UPC:9781936512065Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & CriticismSize:10.00 x 7.99 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.8122Product ID:SCB2Q9G8ED
Whether used for personal reference or as a text for a class in the history of the wind band this book is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the wind band ever written. This volume draws on the author's multi-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and follows the development of the wind band through the civic, court, church and military performances of the Ancient World through the nineteenth century.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Whitwell PublishingISBN-13:9781936512065ISBN-10:1936512068UPC:9781936512065Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & CriticismSize:10.00 x 7.99 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.8122Product ID:SCB2Q9G8ED
Dr. David Whitwell is a graduate ('with distinction') of the University of Michigan and the Catholic University of America, Washington DC (PhD, Musicology, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2000) and has done post-graduate study at the University of Vienna and has studied conducting with Eugene Ormandy and at the Akademie fur Musik, Vienna. Prior to coming to Northridge, Dr. Whitwell participated in concerts throughout the United States and Asia as Associate First Horn in the USAF Band and Orchestra in Washington DC, and in recitals throughout South America in cooperation with the United States State Department. David Whitwell studied conducting at the Akademie für Musik, Vienna, with Hans Swarowsky, and with Eugene Ormandy. He has conducted resident ensembles in Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, Wales, England, Germany, The Netherlands, Bolivia, Peru, Korea, Taiwan, Russia and the United States, among them the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Radio Orchestras of Brno and Bratislava, and The National Youth Orchestra of Israel.
Publisher: Whitwell Publishing

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