Plaza Winds 111224B David Maslanka Wind Quintet No

In using Bach chorales as integral melodic structures, Maslanka generates the interesting juxtaposition of a woodwind quintet playing music from a time period, Baroque, in which the ensemble did not yet exist. Providing a brief history of the emergence of the woodwind quintet genre will prove the truth of this statement and also further explain Maslanka’s style of borrowing by joining older and newer music.