The scope and excellence of this handbook designate it the major compendium of information about chamber music that involves the piano as an equal partner. - "MLA Notes". If chamber music is Othe music of friends, then Maurice Hinson may be remembered ...as one of chamber music's greatest friends of all. - "Contemporary Keyboard". "The Piano in Chamber Ensemble" describes over 3200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers. It is divided into sections according to the number of instruments involved, then subdivided according to the actual scoring. Keyboard, string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players and their teachers will find a wealth of chamber works from all periods.
- ISBN10 0253210550
- ISBN13 9780253210555
- Publish Date 1 February 1996 (first published 1 June 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 606
- Language English