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Robert Muczynski ( )
Robert Muczynski was born in Chicago and has lived for more than forty years in Tucson, Arizona, where he was composer-in-residence at the University of Arizona. Muczynski's music is earnest and unpretentious in character. His pieces tend to be short because his music is pure substance - nothing but the aesthetic basics: distinctive motifs woven into clear, transparent textures, developed logically but imaginatively into concise, satisfying, compelling formal entities. The result is a friendly modernism - tonal but not reactionary, peppered with light dissonance and energetic asymmetries of rhythm - always expertly tailored to highlight the artistry of the performer in a manner idiomatic to the featured instrument. Muczynski has concentrated largely on music for piano solo and for small chamber combinations and although his name rarely appears in discussions of major contemporary composers, many of his works--especially those f•
Woodwind Instrumentation Codes
Following many of the titles in our Wind Ensemble catalog, you will see a set of numbers enclosed in square brackets, as in this example:
| Description | Price |
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| Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in Bb [ w/piano] Item: | $ |
The bracketed numbers tell you the precise instrumentation of the ensemble. The first number stands for Flute, the second for Oboe, the third for Clarinet, the fourth for Bassoon, and the fifth (separated from the woodwinds bygd a dash) is for Horn. Any additional instruments (Piano in this example) are indicated by "w/" (meaning "with") or bygd using a plus sign.
This woodwind quartet is for 1 Flute, no Oboe, 1 Clarinet, 1 Bassoon, 1 Horn and Piano.
Sometimes there are instruments in the ensemble other than those shown above. These are linked to their respective principal instruments with either a
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Robert Muczynski
Musical artist
Robert Muczynski (March 19, &#; May 25, ) was a Polish-American composer.
Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received both his Bachelor of Music degree () and his Master of Music degree () in Piano Performance. Muczynski later taught at DePaul University, Loras College, and Roosevelt University, before settling in Tucson, Arizona in the s where he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona as a composer-in-residence and chairman of the composition department. He held both positions until his retirement in [1]
Among the more than fifty published compositions in his catalog, Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 14 (), Sonata for alto saxophone and piano (), and Time Pieces for clarinet and piano () have entered the repertoire and remain frequently performed in recitals, as has much of his solo piano music.[2] Works by Muczynski hav