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Percy Hilder Miles

Percy Hilder Miles (1878-1922)

Nationality: English
Born: July 12, 1878, London Died: April 18, 1922 (age 43)
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Clarinet Quintet in E-flat major

(for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello)
I.
II. Molto legato
III. Molto sostenuto
IV.
Composed: 1904 (age 25-26)

glossary

  • chamber music, Kammermusik [G], musique de chambre [F], musica da camera [I], musica cameralis [L]—"Classical Music" for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. explore
  • clarinet quintet—Most often refers to the chamber ensemble (and work) for string quartet and clarinet, a long cultivated genre of chamber music from Mozart to the present era.
  • legato [I]—smooth, connected, slurred, bound together
  • molto [It]—very much
  • quintet, quintette [F], quintett [G], quintetto [I]—an ensemble / work for 5 players, the typical examples being string quintet (with second viola or cello), piano quintet or woodwind quintet
  • sostenuto [I], soutenu [F]—sustained, perhaps a bit slow