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  Quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In some modern bands there are quintets formed from the same family of instruments with various voices, as an all brass ensemble, or all saxophones, in soprano, alto, baritone, and bass, and sometimes double bass.
Schubert: piano quintet in A major, D.667 (1819), popularely known as the 'Trout Quintet', based on his Lied "Die Forelle" ("the trout"); this piece in part inspired future efforts in the composition of piano quintets, especially those of Schumann and Dvorak.
Dvorak: piano quintets in A, op.5 (1872), and op.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quintet   (497 words)

  
 Quintet, Tools for Reliable Enterprise Computing
Quintet takes a radical different approach from previous systems that support object replication, in that replication and distribution are no longer transparent and are brought under full control of the developer.
Quintet is designed to function on a collection of server nodes, organized into a cluster, with some form of cluster management software offering basic services such as node addressing, node enumeration, object naming and basic security.
Quintet's support here consist of a set of monikers that internally interact with the component managers to connect to a selected node and are also responsible for the selection of new nodes after failure occurs.
www.cs.cornell.edu /rdc/quintet/edoc.html   (5382 words)

  
 Quintet of the Americas - What the Critics say
The Quintet, a well-matched group of talented young musicians, played with disarming self-assurance, polished ensemble precision and a lively response to the individual musical character of each score.
The Quintet of the Americas strikes the right tone, and Barbara Oldham’s horn playing is a perfect, hypersensitive match for Husa’s eloquent writing in the Interlude here, and everywhere on the disc..
This is a wonderful group of musicians with wonderful tone, great ensemble (going beyond the ordinary definition of the word to more 'conceptual' aspects for those pieces to which they contribute their own creative ideas), and interest in a wide range of styles.
www.quintet.org /critics.html   (471 words)

  
 ESA Portal - Focus On - Stephan’s Quintet – a mammoth cosmic collision
Stephan’s Quintet is a favoured object for amateur astronomers and has earned a reputation as a challenging target for good hobby telescopes.
The quintet is a prototype of a class of objects known as compact groups of galaxies and has been studied intensively for decades.
Historically, observations of Stephan's Quintet contributed significantly to the debate concerning the validity of redshift as a measure of distance.
www.esa.int /esaCP/GGGRT3YTGEC_FeatureWeek_0.html   (1076 words)

  
 The Prague Wind Quintet
The original quintet was established in 1928 by the oboist and long-time permanent conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra Vaclav Smetacek (1906-1986).
The quintet gives definitive interpretations of all the classics of the literature, but contemporary music forms a significant part of its repetoire, because composers have written many compositions for them after hearing one of their performances.
She is hornist and manager of both the Prague Wind Quintet and the reknowned Czech Nonet.
saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /featured_artists/prague_quintet.html   (491 words)

  
 UVa Music - Free Bridge Quintet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Free Bridge Quintet is the official faculty jazz quintet of the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music.
The Free Bridge Quintet was the brainchild of bassist Pete Spaar, who also performs as principle bassist for the Charlottesville University Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra..
The Free Bridge Quintet offers an eclectic inventive program of standards and originals." Judith Shatin writes, "The Freebridge Quintet CD is full of the lively wit, imagination and musicianship that enlivens all that these talented musicians do.
www.virginia.edu /music/freebridge   (452 words)

  
 UKRANIA - The Ladies' Vocal Quintet
Quintet will take part in concert on the occasion of official visit of Deputy secretary of the Russian Federation Sergey Mironov to Ukraine.
Quintet took place to concert in Mariinsky Palace (Kyiv) for the official visit to Ukraine of the Macedonian President Mr.
The Quintet is performing Ukrainian folk songs on the main street of Brunssum town.
www.quintet.kiev.ua   (699 words)

  
 Category - Quintet
Quintets 1 - 4 for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, bassoon
Quintet in Eb for piano and winds op.
Quintet for piano and strings in F minor op.
www.musiclibrary.utep.edu /CategQuin.asp   (197 words)

  
 AudiogoN ForSale: Ps audio Quintet
The Duet and Quintet are housed in a gorgeous new chassis whose industrial design is based on the outsides of a BMW motorcycle and is the brain child of one of our country’s brightest new ID talents, Chris Malato.
The Quintet is perfect for operating an entire system, while the Duet is perfect for power amps, projectors, individual pieces or a small system requiring only four receptacles.
The new Quintet has the capability to drive an entire system and it is therefore essential that connected equipment be turned on in the proper order.
cls.audiogon.com /cgi-bin/cls.pl?accspowr&1167513040   (1917 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Hubble Spies Galactic Collision
Stephan's Quintet lies within the box of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image, the width of which is equal to three Milky Ways.
Pegasus is the seventh largest constellation in the sky and holds Stephan's Quintet in its northern border.
The Quintet is made up of five galaxies numbered NGC 7317 through 7320 (there are two 7318s, A and B).
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/hubble_stephans_010719.html   (934 words)

  
 UNM Department of Music :: Ensembles :: Faculty Ensembles :: NM Brass Quintet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The New Mexico Brass Quintet is in residence at the University of New Mexico and consists of faculty members and graduate assistants.
In addition to performing with the quintet, the graduate assistants study for their master’s degrees, and teach in the music department.
In the summer of 1990, the quintet toured in Finland and the USSR and was featured at the International Lieska Brass Week.
music.unm.edu /ensembles/fac_dept_ensembles/nm_brass_quintet.htm   (434 words)

  
 Piano quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A piano quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one piano and four other instruments, or the name of a piece written for such a group.
Franz Schubert's famous Trout Quintet is written for the less usual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
Piano Quintet (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon; 1796)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_quintet   (313 words)

  
 Center City Brass Quintet
Maestro Otomo has been an enthusiastic supporter of the CCBQ ever since, and arranged for the quintet to perform featured recitals in 2003 in Kyoto (where he is Music Director of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra) and in Tokyo, in a recital which was broadcast nationally on the radio.
Anthony’s music for brass quintet and brass ensemble is well-known world-wide, as a result of the many pieces which have been recorded by the CCBQ, the Burning River Brass Ensemble, and Proteus 7.
The Quintet was happy to welcome Jack Sutte, second trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, to fill out their ranks for this piece.
www.centercitybrassquintet.com /ccbqnews.html   (3715 words)

  
 Borealis Wind Quintet - Recordings
Eric Ewazen's Roaring Fork Quintet is an example of lively neo-classicism, well written for the instruments, while John Steinmetz's Quintet is darker, with a wider range of color and harmony than the Ewazen.
The Borealis Quintet has been on the scene for quite a while, and their playing is stellar-warm, vivacious, and richly vibrant.
The Borealis Wind Quintet is first rate...gentle and agile...boisterous or loving The whole recording is the stuff dreams are made of.
www.borealiswindquintet.com /recordings.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Annapolis Brass Quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quintet is notable for its founding of the International Brass Quintet Festival in Baltimore, Maryland, which became recognized as a major forum for brass chamber music.
Of special interest are four compositions for quintet and orchestra composed for the ABQ and performed with the Baltimore Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Wichita Symphony and the Dublin Radio Orchestra.
United States Senator Barbara A. Mikulski congratulated the Annapolis Brass Quintet for the national record on the floor of the United State Senate on April 27, 1993, on the occasion of their final concert on April 25th, and in recognition of the "contributions that the Annapolis Brass Quintet has made to brass chamber music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annapolis_Brass_Quintet   (584 words)

  
 Redwinds Quintet
The ensemble is comprised of five musicians who have either received or are working on a music degree from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.
This woodwind quintet is available for a variety of functions and musical events.
The Redwinds Quintet is available for section coachings as well as school program presentations.
redwinds-quintet.tripod.com   (114 words)

  
 Saint Louis Brass Quintet
Founded in 1964, the Saint Louis Brass Quintet is one of America's longest standing brass quintets.
The other quintet members hold top positions across the United States, and none of them are members of the St. Louis Symphony.
In 1985, led by trumpeter David Hickman, who was at that time a member of the quintet, personnel were chosen for this new group.
www.hornplanet.com /slbq/index.htm   (1411 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Quintet: Video: Paul Newman,Vittorio Gassman,Fernando Rey,Bibi Andersson,Brigitte Fossey,Nina Van ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
`Quintet' refers on one level to the game these Ice Agers play to pass the time until their eventual demise (apparently those of child-bearing age have mostly passed on, and those left are not trying anymore).
That sense is why the game of Quintet, the only thing left to live for, has become lierally a game of life and death.
QUINTET is a film that is as infuriating as STALKER but unlike STALKER I think I could watch QUINTET again, even once more again after that, maybe.
www.amazon.com /Quintet-Robert-Altman/dp/6301599241   (1738 words)

  
 The Warsaw Piano Quintet - Official Homepage
Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in 1911 in Sosnowiec/Poland.
The Warsaw Quintet which is excellently equipped in all departments of the art of playing chamber music has one more advantage- maturity.
The Brahms Quintet was the highlight of the evening, for its strengh and virility suited the players (all men), who interpreted its power and passion with nobility and depth.
www.szpilman.net /framequintet.html   (5646 words)

  
 Valdosta State University Faculty Brass Quintet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The quintet enjoys performing at high schools and in the surrounding community.
To contact the quintet for a performance or workshop at your school, please call or email Eric Bradshaw.
The Valdosta State University Faculty Brass Quintet was formed in September of 1995 with the addition of three new brass faculty members.
www.valdosta.edu /~dfarwell/fbq.html   (151 words)

  
 Chandra :: Photo Album :: Stephan's Quintet :: 08 May 03
The heating is produced by the rapid motion of a spiral galaxy intruder located immediately to the right of the shock wave in the center of the image (galaxy labeled B in the wide field optical image on the lower right).
Stephan's Quintet is an excellent example of the tumultuous dynamics of a compact group.
The motion of the galaxies through the hot gas, and the gravitational pull of nearby galaxies are stripping cool gas from the galaxies, thereby depriving them of the raw material from which to form new stars.
chandra.harvard.edu /photo/2003/stephan   (496 words)

  
 Faculty Brass Quintet
The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet is comprised of the faculty from the University of Nebraska.
The quintet is dedicated to the performance of original repertoire works for brass quintet.
He is a founding member of the Gore Range Brass Quintet, a quintet spending it’s summers in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado since 1983 and has toured and recorded with the Boulder Brass.
www.unl.edu /trombone/quintet/quintet.shtml   (1498 words)

  
 Tech Times | Cumberland Quintet
Ewazen’s third composition for wind quintet, "Cumberland Suite" showcases the artistry of the ensemble with a work modeled after the Baroque dance suites of the 18th century.
The Cumberland Quintet, from left: Roger Martin, flute; Greg Danner, horn; James Lotz, bassoon; William Woodworth, oboe; and Anne Thurmond, clarinet.
The quintet has also performed as guest artists at conferences for the College Music Society, Tennessee Music Educators Association and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
www.tntech.edu /techtimes/2006/06_04/04_28/c_quintet.html   (379 words)

  
 Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At Valdosta State College, the quintet presented the premiere of Morris Knight's Concerto for Quintet and Piano with Michael Bourgeot under the auspices of the Georgia State Arts Commission's Project Radius.
In 1994 the quintet gave the premiere performance of Karen Thomas' Sopravento, a work for quintet and percussion, at the conference of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors.
OW Records issued the first recordings of the quintet, which are devoted to the works of contemporary American composers.
www.bsu.edu /music/article/0,,21412--,00.html   (285 words)

  
 Image of the Day : A Cosmic Quintet
The other galaxies in the group are racing away from us at more than seven times the pace of NGC 7320.
The interacting members of Stephan's Quintet appear destined to continue their dance for millions more years, Rector and his colleagues say.
Eventually, this dance will probably cause some of the galaxies in the cluster to completely lose their current identity, combining into even fewer objects than we see today.
www.space.com /imageoftheday/image_of_day_040908.html   (306 words)

  
 SDAM.com: Chris Klich
The quintet was honored also to be nominated for the third year in a row for the 2003 San Diego Music Awards.
The quintet returns to the recording studio in Spring of 2003 to begin work on their next album.
In addition to his performances with the Chris Klich Jazz Quintet, he frequently performs with Big Time Operator, The Rhythmmakers, and The Rhythm Method, and does many freelance gigs, playing everything from jazz to blues to swing to top-40 and Electronica.
www.chrisklich.com /quintet.shtml   (1074 words)

  
 Nicholas Payton Quintet Cosmopolis
For the first half of the concert, the structure of the songs remained the same: the quintet first featured the trumpet, then the saxophone, followed by a trio part including only piano, bass and drums, in the end, the quintet presented itself again in full strength.
Then, the quintet turned to an elegant composition with a melancholic touch written by Ramsey Lewis in the 1970s.
At the Kaufleuten, The Nicholas Payton Quintet presented itself as a homogenous group, with the trumpeter as the man adding a touch of glamour.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo13/payton.htm   (1343 words)

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