Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members. It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit.

This article is about a group of five members. For other uses, see Quintet (disambiguation).

Overview

In classical instrumental music, any additional instrument (such as a piano, clarinet, oboe, etc.) joined to the usual string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), gives the resulting ensemble its name, such as "piano quintet", "clarinet quintet", etc. A piece of music written for such a group is similarly named.

The standard wind quintet consists of one player each on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn, while the standard brass quintet has two trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba. Other combinations, however, are sometimes found.

In jazz music, a quintet is group of five players, usually consisting of two of any of the following instruments, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, flute or trombone in addition to traditional jazz trio – piano, double bass, drums.

In some modern bands there are quintets formed from the same family of instruments with various voices, as an all-brass ensemble, or all saxophones, in soprano, alto, baritone, and bass, and sometimes contrabass.

Notable quintets

Performing groups

• Amsterdam Wind Quintet[1]
• Arabesque Winds[2]
• Artecombo
• Bergen Wind Quintet
• Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (de:Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin)
• Blythwood Winds [3]
• Carion
• I Cinque Elementi Wind Quintet
• The City of Tomorrow [4][5]
• Coreopsis Quintet [6]
• Danzi Quintet
• Dorian Wind Quintet
• Farkas Quintet Amsterdam (nl:Farkas Quintet Amsterdam)
• Fifth Inversion[7]
• Galliard Ensemble[8]
• Imani Winds (Grammy nominated 2006)
• LutosAir Quintet[9]
• New London Chamber Ensemble
• New York Woodwind Quintet
• Pentaèdre (Montréal)[10]
• Pennsylvania Quintet
• Quintet of the Americas
• Quintette Aquilon[11]
• Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
• Vancouver Woodwind Quintet
• Vento Chiaro
• WindSync[12]

Classical music

• Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds K. 452 (oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn) (1784)
• Mozart: Quintet for clarinet and strings in A major, K. 581 (1789)
• Reicha: wind quintets, among the first for the medium (starting in 1811)
• Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (1819), popularly known as the 'Trout Quintet', based on his Lied "Die Forelle" ("the trout"). The piece is scored for violin, viola, cello, bass instead of an additional violin, and piano, unlike the usual arrangement of the piano quintet
• Schubert: String Quintet in C major, Op. 163 (D. 956, 1828)
• Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44 (1842)
• Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1862); String Quintet in F major, Op. 88 (1882); Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)
• Dvorak: Piano Quintets in A major, Op. 5 (1872), and Op. 81 (1887), heavily influenced by both the Schubert and Schumann piano quintets
• Bizet: opera Carmen contains a quintet (not always performed), by singers playing some of the smugglers (1873–74)
• Bruckner: String Quintet in F major (1879)
• Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (1922)
• Nielsen: Wind Quintet (1922)
• Schoenberg: Wind Quintet, Op. 26 (1923–24)
• Villa-Lobos: Quinteto (em forma de chôros) (1928)
• Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (1940)
• Stockhausen: Zeitmaße (1955–56)
• Perle: Wind Quintet No. 4 (1984–85)

Jazz

• 'The Greatest Concert Ever.' Jazz quintet. Charlie Parker, alto saxophone; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Bud Powell, piano; Charles Mingus, bass; and Max Roach, drums. Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada. (May 15, 1953) This concert took place against all odds: Bud Powell was drunk; Charlie Parker, identified as "Charlie Chan" in the original notes, played on a plastic alto saxophone; and Dizzy Gillespie would disappear offstage to check on the status of the first Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight championship match.
• Miles Davis' First and Second 'great' Quintets:
  • The First Great Quintet (1955–1958) Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Red Garland, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Philly Joe Jones, drums.
  • The Second Great Quintet (1964–1968) Miles Davis, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums.

Soul/R&B

• The Temptations 1960–present
• The Dells 1954–present
• The Dramatics
• The Spinners
• The Tavares
• The Stylistics
• Blue Magic
• Jackson 5 1964–1975,
• The Jacksons 1976–

Doo wop

• The Moonglows
• The Heartbeats
• The Jive Five
• The Flamingos
• The Five Keys
• The Five Satins[13]

Pop

• Day6 2015–present
• KNK (band) 2016–present
• 4Minute 2009–2016
• Red Velvet(South Korea) 2014–present
• Vocal Unit from Seventeen (band) 2015–present

References

1. http://www.amsterdamwindquintet.nl. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Arabesque Winds, woodwind quintet". Arabesquewinds.com. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
3. https://twitter.com/BlythwoodWinds. Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "City of Tomorrow: Breathing New Life Into the Wind Quintet". Sfcv.org. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
5. "The City of Tomorrow". Thecityoftomorrow.org. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
6. "Home". Coreopsis Quintet. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
7. http://www.fifthinversion.com. Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. "Concerts". Galliard Ensemble. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
9. http://www.lutosairquintet.com
10. "Pentaèdre". Retrieved 20 January 2015.
11. https://www.quintette-aquilon.com
12. https://www.windsync.org
13. Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 81. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.