James Charles Barnes is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

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Barnes studied composition

Musical composition

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 and music theory

Music theory

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 at the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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, earning a Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Music

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 in 1974, and Master of Music

Master of Music

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 in 1975. He studied conducting privately with Zuohuang Chen. Since 1977 he has been a professor

Professor

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 of theory and composition at the University of Kansas, where he teaches orchestration

Orchestration

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 and composition.

Barnes is also a tubist and has performed with numerous professional organizations in the United States.

His numerous compositions are frequently played in America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Australia. The Japanese concert band

Concert band

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 Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

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 has produced 3 CDs to date with works of James Barnes.

He has twice received the American Bandmasters Association

American Bandmasters Association

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 Ostwald Award

Ostwald Award

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 for contemporary wind band music.

Works for concert band

• Toccata Fantastica Op. 106
• A Solemn Prelude for Symphonic Band. Op. 114
• A Light in the Wilderness
• A Very American Overture
• All Pleasant Things
• Alvamar Overture
• Autumn Soliloquy for Oboe and concert band
• Appalachian Overture
• Arioso For Symphonic Band
• Beautiful Oregon
• Breckenridge
• Brookshire Suite
• Caribbean Hideaway
• Carnaval in São Paulo
• Centennial Celebration Overture
• Century Tower Overture
• Chorale and Jubiloso
• Chorale Prelude on a German Folk Tune Op. 61
• Concerto for Tuba and Wind Band
• Crossgate
• Danza Sinfonica
• Dream Journey, OP.98 (a Tone Poem for Symphonic Band)
• Dreamers...
• Duo Concertante, OP. 74
• Eaglecrest
• Eagle Bend Overture for Band
• Eisenhower Centennial March
• Fanfares and Alleluias
• Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Nicolo Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini
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• Festival Concert March
• Festive Music for Singapore
• Foxfire Overture for Symphonic Band
• German Folk Tune
• Golden Brass
• Golden Festival Overture Op. 95
• Heatherwood Portrait
• High Plains Overture
• Hobart Centennial March
• Hunter Park
• Inspiration Point
• Inventions On Marching Songs
• Invocation and Toccata
• Impressions of Japan
• Jubilation Overture
• Legend
• Lonely Beach Normandy 1944
• Long Gray Line
• Maracas from Caracas
• March Kawasaki
• Meadowlark, A Pastorale
• Medicine Lodge
• Mojaves Claves
• Music from "Girl Crazy" by George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
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• Nulli Secundus March
• Omaggio
• Pagan Dances
  1. Ritual
  2. Mystics
  3. The Master of the Sword
• Poetic Intermezzo
• Rapscallion
• Rhapsodic Essay; Gathering of Eagles
• Riverfest
• Romanza
• Spitfire Overture
• Stone Meadows
• Sunflower Saga
• Symphonic Overture
• The Old Guard
• The Pershing Rifles
• The Silver Gazebo
• The Texans
• Toccata Fantastica
• Torch Dance
• Trailridge Saga
• Trail of Tears
• Trumpets and Drums
• Twin Oaks Overture for Band
• Valor
• Variations ona Moravian Hymm
• Visions Macabres
• Westport Overture
• Westridge Overture
• Wildwood Overture
• Yama Midori (Green Mountains)
• Yorkshire Ballad

Symphonies

• Second Symphony
• 1994 Third Symphony - "The Tragic" Op. 89
  1. Lento - Allegro ritomoco
  2. Scherzo
  3. Fantasia - Mesto (for Natalie)
  4. Finale - Allegro giocoso
• Fourth Symphony "Yellowstone Portraits" Op. 103b
  1. Dawn on the Yellowstone River
  2. Pronghorn Scherzo
  3. Inspiration Point (Tower Falls)
• Fifth Symphony "Phoenix" Op. 110
• Sixth Symphony (written for the Lake Braddock High School Symphonic Band)

External links

• James Barnes, School of Music, University of Kansas