Accessible Orchestral Repertoire: An Annotated Guide for Community and School Orchestras

by Daniel Chetel

Overview

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a reference volume for conductors who lead non-professional symphonic orchestras, offering practical and insightful commentary on music appropriate for intermediate and advanced youth, community, and collegiate orchestras. Modeled on and complimentary to Daniels’ Orchestral Music, it is a repertoire and programming resource for youth, academic, and community orchestras.

The works included in this book are a combination of well-known warhorses and lesser known gems—clear favorites for young or amateur players and as well as more challenging pieces. Functioning like an annotated bibliography, entries on individual works include information about the composer, instrumentation, movement length, and publisher. Each entry also features notes regarding the particular pedagogical, stylistic, logistical, and technical strengths and challenges of the specific work.

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire will help every conductor in the process of selecting repertoire that will both feature and enrich any individual non-professional ensemble for which thoughtful and strategic programming is required.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442275799
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/15/2020
Series:	Music Finders
Edition description:	Annotated
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	767,179
Product dimensions:	8.94(w) x 11.54(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Daniel Chetel is the director of orchestral activities and assistant professor of music at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. Chetel moved to the Quad Cities in 2016 after concluding his five-year tenure as the Music Director and Conductor of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras in Lexington, KY.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Abbreviations and Notations

ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY COMPOSER

Appendices

A. Composers by Nationality
B. Works by Underrepresented Composers
C. Works for Instrumentations Other Than the Symphony Orchestra and Featuring Soloists
D. Works by Duration
E. Works by Date of Composition
F. Publishers and Resources

Title Index

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Here is the book I wish I had, back in the 1960s when I first started conducting youth and community orchestras. Daniel Chetel's book will be useful to the neophyte conductor, as well as those of more experience, who are sure to find new and tempting scores to consider.

David W. Daniels

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a valuable reference resource which will surely take its place on the desk of many conductors. The notes describing the musical elements and musical difficulties of each piece are particularly interesting and useful.

John Nardolillo

This is a welcomed and long-awaited source for conductors and administrators of educational and community ensembles, in which Chetel mindfully responds to current cultural and artistic challenges of the ever-shifting orchestral world. While including a desperately needed component of underrepresented creative output, this book recognizes the needs of a truly diverse array of ensembles.

César Leal

This is a welcomed and long-awaited source for conductors and administrators of educational and community ensembles, in which Chetel mindfully responds to current cultural and artistic challenges of the ever-shifting orchestral world. While including a desperately needed component of underrepresented creative output, this book recognizes the needs of a truly diverse array of ensembles.

César Leal