Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music, The (CD-ROM)
	Quantity in Basket: none Item: WFR339 Price: $39.95 Type: CD-ROM Author: William H. Rehrig, author and compiler - Paul Bierley and Jennifer Blair, editors Publisher: Walking Frog Records ©: 2005
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Newly Revised and Updated! COMPLETE CD ROM EDITION Runs on Windows 95/98 and XP. MacIntosh computers must be at least OS10 and must have Virtual PC. Over 9,000 composers listed. Over 4,500 composer biographies Over 125,000 titles with all known arrangements and editions listed. This edition of the Encyclopedia is the results of more than 20 years of research by the author and band scholars from around the world.         This CD ROM version of the Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music is a completely new edition. It combines all of the material included in Volumes 1, 2 and 3, along with an enormous amount of new material.         It is important for the reader to understand what this encyclopedia is and what it is not. It is an attempt to document all editions of all music ever published (and some unpublished) for concert and military bands. It is an attempt to provide biographies of composers whose music has been used by bands, whether the music was composed for band or not.         It is not intended as competition for other music encyclopedias or dictionaries, such as Grove's or Baker's. The reader will quickly discover that over 80% of the composers and well over 99% of the works listed herein are not mentioned in those volumes.         The value of this encyclopedia, therefore, is that a tremendous amount of information is now available for the first time.         In general, there are two types of music represented: (1) music composed expressly for band, and (2) music first composed for other instrumentations and later adapted for band use.         Lists of composers' works are not limited to music that is currently available; that is covered by other publications. Rather, this encyclopedia is an historical record, and the advantages are many indeed. Thanks to the considerable efforts of the author and contributors (and often the editor), hundreds of biographies of obscure composers are included.