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« Reply #15 on: 17:14:11, 16-02-2008 »
Quote from: Notoriously Bombastic on 22:41:31, 27-01-2008

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I think that the wind orchestra repertoire may offer slightly more satisfaction!

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As a genuine query - is there a hard and fast distinction between wind band and wind orch? Ours was always described as a band, but it had a full woodwind complement, so maybe it was the latter. (And even the oboe parts when you had something to do, it was never as interesting as what the brass, flutes or clarinets were up to... Mainly just 'poignant' solos of the Swan Lake type.)
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« Reply #16 on: 17:41:52, 16-02-2008 »
NB would be the one to answer this trj, but I don't think there is, at least not in this country. In the States there's a completely different sort of line-up for the different terms (as there certainly is for 'brass band'), but I'm hazy on this. I guess one possible distinction would be between a 'band' excluding some varieties of orchestral woodwind and inluding a lot of saxes (plus brass and percussion), and an 'orchestra' which included everything but, er, not so many saxes... The latter I've written for.
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« Reply #17 on: 18:15:18, 16-02-2008 »
http://alan.bullard.tripod.com/id26.htm

I don't know the two wind orch pieces, but I'm very fond of what I know of Alan's music.
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« Reply #18 on: 19:21:39, 16-02-2008 »
Saint-saens overture "Occident et Orient", Op.25 is for wind orchestra (I believe)
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« Reply #19 on: 23:29:42, 16-02-2008 »
Yer US wind orch has all the species of clarinet, in fact`all the colours of the rainbow in the woodwinds
(except`maybe bass flute) and is typically 70-odd strong-I believe that's the main difference. In my military band days the first`division (the 'golden 25' as we called it) made a tight chamber orch sound with that number, 1 on a part. Now that's the standard size, wheras we could then field about 120.
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