Quintets

This page contains the following categories of selected music manuscripts:

Wind Quintets (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn)
Other Quintets with Flute

Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog and special collection findings aids when available.

Wind Quintets

Selected list of manuscript scores for standard wind quintet instrumentation (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn), including auxiliary doubling instruments.

Studies for Wind Quintet by Hugh Aitken
Call Number: ML96 .A42 no. 64 Case
Published/Created: 1958
Holograph score for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn.
Quintet for Winds by David Amram
Call Number: ML30.K56
Published/Created: 1969
Black-line score and parts for this work are available in the Hans Kindler Foundation Collection.
Summer Music by Samuel Barber
Call Number: ML96 .B267 Case
Published/Created: 1955
Holograph score in pencil.
Wind Quintet by Richard Rodney Bennett
Call Number: ML30.3c .B374 no. 1 (Case)
Published/Created: 1968
Holograph score. Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress commission.
Concerto for Wind Quintet by William Bergsma
Call Number: ML29c .B494 1958 (Case)
Published/Created: 1958
Holograph score and sketches. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress.
Second Suite, "Rhapsodic" by Domenico Brescia
Call Number: ML29c.B84 (Case)
Published/Created: 1922
Holograph score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.
Sarabande by Radie Britain
Call Number: ML96 .B7875 no. 4 Case
Published/Created: 1968
Holograph score.
Woodwind Quintet by Elliott Carter
Call Number: ML96 .C288 Case / Microfilm MUSIC-1826
Published/Created: circa 1948
Five holograph parts with two holograph score leaves. Earlier version of 2nd movement of the composer's Woodwind quintet (1948).
Woodwind Quintet by Elliott Carter
Call Number: ML96 .C288 Case / Microfilm MUSIC-1826
Published/Created: 1948
Sketches of holograph score. Digitized content available.
Woodwind Quintet by Elliott Carter
Call Number: ML96 .C288 Case
Published/Created: 1948
Holograph score in ink.
Ballad for wind quintet by Henry Cowell
Call Number: ML96 .C823 (Case)
Published/Created: 1956
Composer's arrangement of Ballad for String Orchestra. Holograph score.
Quintet for Winds by Alvin Etler
Call Number: ML96 .E8 (Case)
Published/Created: 1955
Holograph score.
Quintet no. 2 for Winds by Alvin Etler
Call Number: ML96 .E8 (Case)
Published/Created: 1957
Holograph score.

Partita by Irving Fine
Call Number: Irving Fine Collection, Box 4
Published/Created: circa 1948
Box 4 contains holograph sketches within Sketchbook no. 5. Sketchbook digitized online.
Romanza by Irving Fine
Call Number: ML29c .F527 no. 2 (Case)
Published/Created: 1963
Holograph sketches. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress.
For four woodwinds and French horn by Mary Howe
Call Number: ML96 .H857 Case
Published/Created: 1956-1957
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn. First movement is copyist manuscript. All other movements holograph score in pencil.
Five poems : for woodwind quintet by Karel Husa
Call Number: ML30.3c .H87 no. 1 Case
Published/Created: 1994
Holograph score and sketches. Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress commission.
Quintet for wind instruments by Walter Piston
Call Number: ML29c. P67 (Case)
Published/Created: 1956
Holograph score. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress.

Suite for Five - wind quintet by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Call Number: Seeger Family Collection, Box 8 / Microfilm 84/20216, reel 2, item 10
Published/Created: undated
Work also known as Suite for Wind Quintet. Holograph score and parts
Woodwind Suite by Russell Smith
Call Number: ML29c .S66 no. 1 Case
Published/Created: 1950
Facsimile score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection
Quintet, for woodwinds and horn by Gustav Strube
Call Number: ML29c .S92 (Case)
Published/Created: 1930
Holograph score and copyist manuscript parts signed by the composer in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.
Wind Set by George Walker
Call Number: ML30.3c .W32 no. 2 (Case)
Published/Created: 1999
Holograph score. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress.

Other Quintets with Flute

Selected list of manuscript scores for flute with four other performers.

Quintet (Symphony for Five Instruments) by George Antheil
Call Number: ML96 .A723 no. 20 (Case)
Published/Created: 1923
For flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and viola. Photo-reproduction of holograph score with additions and corrections in the composer's hand.
Music for string quartet and flute by Leonard Bernstein
Call Number: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Box 1066
Published/Created: 1938
Holograph score for flute, 2 violins, viola, and cello. Part of the Leonard Bernstein Collection.
Quintet in B minor for flute, string trio & piano by David Diamond
Call Number: ML96 .D52 (Case)
Published/Created: 1937
For flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano. Holograph score and parts.
Zones by Jacqueline Fontyn
Call Number: ML30.K56
For flute, clarinet, cello, percussion, piano. Annotated blue-line scores for each part, blue-line score, and revised blue-line score are in the Hans Kindler Foundation Collection.
Suite pour instruments à vent et piano by Albert Huybrechts
Call Number: ML96 .H955 no. 21 Case
Published/Created: 1929
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano. Holograph score. Second holograph score cataloged under ML96 .H955 no. 22 Case.
Sonata a cinque by Gian Francesco Malipiero
Call Number: ML29c .M25 (case)
Published/Created: 1934
For flute, violin, viola, cello, and harp. Holograph score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.
Three Canons for woodwinds by Wallingford Riegger
Call Number: ML29c .R55 Case
Published/Created: 1930
For piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Holograph score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.
Nocturne, for flute and string quartet, op. 4 by Burnet Tuthill
Call Number: ML96.T97 (Case)
Published/Created: 1933
For flute, 2 violins, viola, and cello. Holograph score and parts.
Family Music, op. 30 by Burnet Tuthill
Call Number: ML96.T97 (Case)
Published/Created: 1952
For flute, 2 clarinets, viola, and cello. Holograph score in pencil.

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