Title: Early Development of the Woodwind Ensemble
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The Early Development of the Wind Quintet
Content: the bassoon was no longer an accompanying instrument. He  used the ranges of each instrument more fully and moved away from strictly diatonic and arpeggiated passages. The combinations of instruments within the quintet were explored in these quintets so that different timbres  were created. “ His treatment of the instruments was not the only  different quality in his quintets. Rather than using all of the voices all of  the time in a homophonic style, he exposes the various themes in different voices, with a varied combination of accompanying  instruments. Reicha experimented with the forms and keys as well as the rhythms  and tonalities in all his works.” [ 11] Each of the quintets has four movements as was customary during  this time. The first movements were in sonata-allegro form. Most of the quintets followed the key relationships that were standard during this time: relative major  or minor keys or the subdominant or dominant for the second movements, for example.