List of concert band literature - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Original works

This is an inclusive list of the accepted standard works written specifically for Concert Band or Wind Ensemble.

Cornerstone works

The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...

Commando March (1943)

Robert Russell Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards...

Suite of Old American Dances (1949)

Symphonic Songs for Band (1957)

Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Op. 15

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale , Op. 15, is the fourth and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris...

(1840)

Arthur Bird

Arthur Bird was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied in Europe and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt. He composed a symphony, Karnevalszene; three orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone; some music for the...

Suite in D Major, Op. 29 (1889)

John Barnes Chance

John Barnes Chance was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture...

Elegy (1972)

Incantation and Dance (1960)

Symphony No. 2 (1972)

Variations on a Korean Folk Song

Variations on a Korean Folk Song is a major musical piece written for concert band by John Barnes Chance in 1965. As the name implies, Variations consists of a set of variations on the Korean folk song Arirang, which the composer heard while in Korea with the U.S. Army in the late 1950s...

(1966)

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

Emblems (1964)

Henry Fillmore

Henry Fillmore was an American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader, best-known for his many marches and screamers.-Biography:James Henry Fillmore Jr. was born in Cincinnati, Ohio as the eldest of five children...

Americans We (1929)

The Footlifter (1935)

His Honor (1933)

Percy Grainger

George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...

Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)

Lincolnshire Posy

Lincolnshire Posy is a piece by Percy Grainger for concert band composed in 1937 for the American Bandmasters Association. Considered Grainger's masterpiece, the work is composed of six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire,...

(1937)

Howard Hanson

Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...

Chorale and Alleluia (1954)

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...

Symphony in B-flat

Symphony in B-flat for Band

Symphony in B for Band was written by Paul Hindemith, an influential German composer known for writing music in a variety of genres, including orchestral, opera, chamber, ballet, vocal and many more. The piece was completed in 1951 and premiered on April 5 of that year by the U.S. Army Band...

(1951)

Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo, Op. 52 (1930)

First Suite in E-flat Major, Op. 28/1 (1909)

Second Suite in F Major, Op. 28/2

Second Suite in F for Military Band

The Second Suite in F for Military Band is Gustav Holst's second and last suite for concert band. Although performed less frequently than the First Suite in E-flat, it is still a staple of the band literature...

(1911)

Karel Husa

Karel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...

Music for Prague

Music for Prague 1968

Music for Prague 1968 is a programmatic work written by Czech-born composer Karel Husa for symphonic band and later transcribed for full orchestra, written shortly after the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Karel Husa was sitting on the dock at his cottage in...

(1968)

Gordon Jacob

Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...

An Original Suite (1928)

William Byrd Suite (1923)

Joseph Willcox Jenkins

American Overture for Band (1956)

Leon Jessel

Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers," also known as "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Jessel was a prolific composer...

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is now public domain.The instrumental title theme, "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" , was composed by Leon Jessel.-Synopsis:A large factory complex struggles to produce a single package, which is...

(1905)

Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role...

Canzona (1951)

Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

Suite Française (1944)

Camillo de Nardis

The Universal Judgment (1878)

Ron Nelson

Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic.-Biography:A native of Joliet, Illinois, Ron Nelson was born December 14, 1929. He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester earning a bachelor's degree in 1952, a...

Rocky Point Holiday

"Rocky Point Holiday" is a composition for wind ensemble by Ron Nelson. Nelson's first major work, it was written in 1966 on a summer vacation in Rocky Point, Rhode Island as a commissioned piece for the University of Minnesota's band's Russian tour. The piece was premiered by The University of...

(1969)

W. Francis McBeth

William Francis McBeth was born March 9, 1933, in Ropesville, Texas .McBeth is a prolific composer, whose wind band works are highly respected. His primary musical influences include Clifton Williams, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson...

Masque (1968)

Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

Divertimento, Op. 42 (1950)

Psalm for Band, Op. 53 (1953)

Symphony No. 6, Op. 69 (1956)

Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....

Tunbridge Fair (1950)

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

March in B-flat Major, Op. 99 (1944)

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed was one of North America's most prolific and frequently performed composers, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name...

Armenian Dances (Part I)

Armenian Dances is a musical piece for concert band, written by Alfred Reed . It is a four-movement suite, of which Armenian Dances comprises the first movement and Armenian Dances comprises the remaining three...

(1972)

Armenian Dances (Part II) (1976)

Russian Christmas Music

Russian Christmas Music is a musical piece for symphonic band, written by Alfred Reed in 1944. It is one of the most popular and frequently performed pieces of concert band literature....

(1944)

H. Owen Reed

Herbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle...

La Fiesta Mexicana (1949)

Gioachino Rossini

Scherzo (1863)

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

Orient et Occident, Op. 25 (1869)

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

Theme and Variations, Op. 43a (1943)

William Schuman

William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...

George Washington Bridge (1950)

New England Triptych

New England Triptych is a symphonic composition by William Schuman. The work lasts about 16 minutes, and is written for an orchestra of 3 flutes , 2 oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion , and...

(1956)

Joseph Schwantner

Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....

...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)

John P. Sousa

Semper Fidelis

Semper Fidelis (march)

"Semper Fidelis", which was written in 1888 by John Philip Sousa, is regarded as the official march of the United States Marine Corps. This piece was one of two composed in response to a request from United States President Chester Arthur for a new piece to be associated with the United States...

(1888)

Stars and Stripes Forever (1896)

The Washington Post

The Washington Post (march)

"The Washington Post" is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. Since then, it has remained as one of his most popular marches throughout the United States and many countries abroad.-History:...

(1889)

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

Sonatina No 1 in F major (Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden) (1943)

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments

Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky)

The Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments was written by Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1923-1924. This work was revised in 1950.It was composed four years after the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, which he composed upon his arrival in Paris after his stay in Switzerland...

(1924)

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

The Symphonies of Wind Instruments is a concert work written by Igor Stravinsky in 1920, for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. The piece is in one movement, lasting about 9 minutes...

(1920/rev. 1947)

Clifton Williams

Clifton Williams (composer)

James Clifton Williams Jr. was born in Traskwood, Arkansas, United States. He began playing French horn, piano, and mellophone early on and played in the band at Little Rock High School...

Fanfare and Allegro (1956)

Symphonic Dance No. 3: Fiesta (1967)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

English Folk Song Suite

Written in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band. Although it is commonly known by the title given above, it was actually published as "Folk Song Suite" - the title which is used on the score and parts...

(1923)

Flourish for Wind Band (1939)

Toccata Marziale (1924)

Respected Works

These pieces may not necessarily be quite as universally acknowledged as the above list, but occupy an extremely important place in the repertoire nonetheless. Like the previous works, they have proven themselves through many performances, most over a span of decades.
David Amram

David Amram

David Amram is an American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston...

King Lear Variations (1966)

Leslie Bassett

Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...

Concerto Grosso (1982)

Designs, Images and Textures (1965)

Lullaby for Kirsten (1985)

Sounds, Shapes and Symbols (1977)

David Bedford

David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....

Sun Paints Rainbows over the Vast Waves (1982)

Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

Morning Music (1986)

Warren Benson

Warren Benson was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion...

Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Band (1954)

The Leaves Are Falling (1963)

The Passing Bell (1974)

Recuerdo (1966)

The Solitary Dancer (1966)

Symphony for Drums and Wind Orchestra (1963)

Symphony No. 2, "Lost Songs" (1983)

Wings (1984)

Herbert Bielawa

Spectrum (1966)

Jerry Bilik

Jerry Bilik is an American composer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and director of stage productions.Bilik studied with Tibor Serly who had been a student of Béla Bartók...

Block M (1955)

Eugene Bozza

Eugène Bozza

Eugène Joseph Bozza was a French composer.Bozza studied composition, conducting, and violin at the Paris Conservatoire. He is known primarily for his chamber music. Bozza's work includes five symphonies, operas, ballets, and many pieces for brass ensemble...

Children's Overture (1964)

Houston Bright

Houston Bright was an American music composer. While he never received wide public acclaim, Houston Bright was, among his peers, well known and respected as a composer, choral director, and professor. He spent essentially his entire career in the Music Department of West Texas State College...

Prelude and Fugue in F minor (1960)

Howard Cable

Howard Reid Cable is a conductor, arranger, music director, composer, and radio and television producer.-Biography:...

Newfoundland Rhapsody (1956)

Quebec Folk Fantasy (1953)

Snake Fence Country (1954)

Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...

Introduzione, Corale e Marcia, Op. 57 (1935)

Michael Colgrass

Michael Colgrass is an American-born Canadian musician, composer, and educator.His musical career began in Chicago as a jazz musician . He graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival...

Winds of Nagual

Written in 1985, Winds of Nagual is one of North American composer Michael Colgrass's works for Wind Ensemble. Considered a beautiful yet highly challenging piece to perform, it has become a standard of the wind ensemble/concert band repertoire...

(1985)

John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

Gazebo Dances (1973)

Paul Creston

Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...

Celebration Overture (1955)

Ingolf Dahl

Ingolf Dahl was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, Germany to a German father and a Swedish mother, his birth name was Walter Ingolf Marcus. He studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln...

Saxophone Concerto (1948)

Sinfonietta (1961)

Norman Dello Joio

- Life :He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the...

Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn (1968)

Satiric Dances: For a Comedy by Aristrophanes (1975)

Scenes from the Louvre (1966)

Variants on a Medieval Tune (1963)

Thomas Duffy

Thomas Duffy VC , born in Mount Temple , Athlone, County Westmeath, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was approximately 51 years old, and a...

Crystals (1985)

Frank Erickson

Frank William Erickson

Frank William Erickson was born in Spokane, Washington on September 1, 1923. He was the son of Frank O. and Myrtle Erickson. He began his instrumental career at the age of eight. At eight years old he began to play the piano. At age ten he became interested in the trumpet and started playing it...

Air for Band (1956)

Toccata for Band (1957)

Henry Fillmore

The Klaxon (1929)

Military Escort (1928)

Mt. Healthy (1916)

Vittorio Giannini

Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...

Symphony No.3 (1959)

David Gillingham

David R. Gillingham is a contemporary composer. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh for his undergraduate degree in Music Education and Michigan State University for his PhD in Music Composition/Theory. He currently serves as professor of music theory and composition at Central...

Heroes Lost and Fallen (1990)

Morton Gould

Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six...

Derivations (1956)

Jericho (1939)

Symphony No. 4 (West Point) (1952)

Percy Grainger

Children's March (Over the Hills and Far Away) (1919)

Colonial Song

Colonial Song is a musical composition written by Australian composer Percy Grainger. Although Grainger created versions for different types of musical ensembles, its most commonly used version today is for concert band.-Background:...

(1928)

Country Gardens

Country Gardens is an English folk tune collected by Cecil Sharp and arranged for piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger.In 2008 was added to the .-Format of renditions:...

(1928)

The "Gumsuckers" March (1928)

Handel in the Strand (1911)

Molly on the Shore

Molly on the Shore is a composition of Percy Aldridge Grainger. It is an arrangement of two contrasting Irish reels, "Temple Hill" and "Molly on the Shore" that present the melodies in a variety of textures and orchestrations, giving each section of the band long stretches of thematic and...

(1921)

Shepherd's Hey (1918)

Clare Grundman

Kentucky 1800 (1954)

Kenneth Hesketh

Kenneth Hesketh is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo...

Masque (1987)

Frigyes Hidas

Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer.Hidas studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with János Visky...

Merry Music (1983)

David Holsinger

David R. Holsinger is an American composer and conductor writing primarily for concert band. Holsinger is a graduate of Hardin-Central High School in Hardin, Missouri, Central Methodist University, the University of Central Missouri, and the University of Kansas...

In the Spring, at the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1986)

Liturgical Dances (1981)

To Tame the Perilous Skies (1992)

Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

Symphony No.4 (1959)

Karel Husa

Karel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...

Apotheosis of This Earth (1971)

Concerto for Wind Ensemble (1982)

Robert Jager

Diamond Variations (1967)

Esprit De Corps (1984)

Third Suite (1966)

Tristan Keuris

Tristan Keuris was a Dutch composer.Keuris initially studied with Jan van Vlijmen in Amersfoort. At the age of 15 he started his studies with Ton de Leeuw at the Utrecht Conservatory. Upon graduating from the conservatory he received the 'Prijs voor compositie'...

Catena (1988)

Boris Kozhevnikov

Symphony No. 3: Slavyanskaya (1950/rev. 1958)

Robert Kurka

Robert Frank Kurka was an American composer, who also taught and conducted his own works.Kurka was born in Cicero, Illinois. He was mostly self-taught, though he studied for short periods under Darius Milhaud and Otto Luening, receiving his M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1948...

The Good Soldier Schweik

The Good Soldier Švejk

The Good Soldier Švejk , also spelled Schweik or Schwejk, is the abbreviated title of a unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek. It was illustrated by Josef Lada and George Grosz after Hašek's death...

Suite (1956)

Ronald Lo Presti:

Elegy for a Young American (1964)

Elizabeth Maconchy

Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets.-Biography:...

Music for Woodwind and Brass (1965)

Martin Mailman

Martin Mailman was an American composer noted for his music for orchestra, chorus, multimedia, and winds.-Biography:Dr. Martin Mailman was born in New York City on June 30, 1932...

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night (1988)

Liturgical Music (1963)

David Maslanka

David Maslanka is a U.S. composer who writes for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music and symphony orchestra....

A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)

Johan de Meij

Johannes Abraham de Meij is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings" symphony.- Biography :...

Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings" (1984-1988)

Vaclav Nelhybel

Václav Nelhýbel

Václav Nelhýbel was a Czech-American composer, mainly of works for student performers. He is considered one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....

Antiphonale (1972)

Trittico (1965)

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)

Oiseaux exotiques (1956)

Ron Nelson

Medieval Suite (1983)

Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) (1992)

Roger Nixon

Roger Nixon was an American composer, musician, and professor of music. He wrote over 60 compositions for orchestra, band, choir and opera...

Festival Fanfare March (1971)

Fiesta del Pacifico (1966)

Music of Appreciation (1944)

Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...

Masquerade, Op. 102 (1965)

Pageant, Op. 59 (1954)

Parable IX, Op. 121 (1972)

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

March, Op. 99 (1943/44)

Alfred Reed

A Festival Prelude (1962)

The Hounds of Spring

The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for winds, written by the American composer, Alfred Reed in 1980.Reed was inspired by the poem Atalanta in Calydon , by Victorian era English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy...

(1980)

Anton Reicha

Anton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...

Commemoration Symphony (1815)

Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

Huntingtower, P. 173 (1932)

Florent Schmitt

Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...

Dionysiaques (1913)

Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

Diptych for Brass Quintet and Concert Band (1964)

Meditation (1963)

On Winged Flight (1989)

Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (1950)

Symphony no. 3 "In Praise of Winds" (1981)

Joseph Schwantner

Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....

From a Dark Millennium (1981)

John P. Sousa

The High School Cadets

High School Cadets

High School Cadets is a march that was written in 1890 by John Philip Sousa. The march is written in the form IAABBCCDD.The tune is often included on compilations of Sousa's works. The final portion of the song was used for the melody of "The March of the Penguins" in Gloria Jean's 1939 film, The...

(1890)

The Thunderer

"The Thunderer" is one of John Philip Sousa's marches. It was written in 1889.The origin of the name is not officially known, though it is speculated that it gets its name from the "pyrotechnic [effects] of the drum and bugle in [the] score."...

(1889)

Claude T. Smith

Claude Thomas Smith was an American band conductor and composer as well as an educator. Notable among his over 100 band compositions, twelve orchestral works and fifteen choral are "Flight" and "Eternal Father Strong to Save." The National Air and Space Museum has taken the first of these as its...

Emperata Overture (1964)

Festival Variations (1982)

Flight (1984)

Incidental Suite (1966)

Philip Sparke

Philip Sparke is a British composer and musician. He is noted for his concert band and brass band music.- Music for Winds :* 1973/1976 Gaudium* 1975 The Prizewinners for Brass-Band* 1978/1995 Fantasy for Euphonium...

Jubilee Overture (1983)

Eric Stokes

For historian, see Eric Stokes Eric Stokes was a composer, whose work spanned an eclectic range of influences and styles....

The Continental Harp and Band Report (1975)

Richard Strauss

Festmusik der Stadt Wien (1943)

Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...

A Solemn Music (1949)

Fisher Tull

Fisher Aubrey Tull, Jr. , known professionally as Fisher A. Tull, aka Mickey Tull, was an American composer, arranger, educator, administrator, and trumpeter.-Life and career:...

Sketches on a Tudor Psalm (1971)

Clifton Williams

Clifton Williams (composer)

James Clifton Williams Jr. was born in Traskwood, Arkansas, United States. He began playing French horn, piano, and mellophone early on and played in the band at Little Rock High School...

Caccia and Chorale (1973)

Dedicatory Overture (1964)

Festival (1962)

Sinfonians (1960)

Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...

Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (1929)

Dana Wilson

Dana Richard Wilson is an American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher. Wilson currently resides in Ithaca, New York.Wilson's music has been commissioned and performed by such ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony,...

Piece of Mind (1987)

Haydn Wood

Haydn Wood was a 20th century English composer and a respected violinist.-Life:Haydn Wood was born in the Yorkshire town of Slaithwaite on 25 March 1882...

Mannin Veen (1938)

Guy Woolfenden

Guy Anthony Woolfenden OBE is an English composer and conductor.-Biography:Woolfenden was born in Ipswich and educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, London, and Whitgift School, Croydon. He studied music at Christ's College in Cambridge and went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music...

Gallimaufry (1983)

Illyrian Dances (1986)

John Zdechlik

Chorale and Shaker Dance

Chorale and Shaker Dance is a piece of music for wind band composed by John Zdechlik. It is a popular part of the band literature, and frequently performed by student ensembles....

(1971)

Recent works

The following works are rapidly gaining acceptance as standard repertoire. All have been composed within the last twenty years.
Bert Appermont

Colors (for Trombone & Band, 1998)

Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra (1993)

The Four Seasons (1991)

Steven Bryant

Concerto for Wind Ensemble (2007)

Dusk (2004)

Ecstatic Waters (2008)

Mark Camphouse

Mark Camphouse is an American composer and conductor who has written primarily for symphonic winds, but whose output also includes works for orchestra, choir and chamber brass....

A Movement for Rosa (1992)

Michael Colgrass

Urban Requiem (1996)

John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...

Symphony No. 3 (Circus Maximus) (2004)

Larry Daehn

As Summer Was Just Beginning (1994)

Michael Daugherty

Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...

Bells for Stokowski

Bells for Stokowski for Orchestra and for Symphonic Band by American composer Michael Daugherty, is a 14 minute, single-movement tribute to one of the most prominent 20th century conductors, Leopold Stokowski. Bells for Stokowski for Orchestra stands alone as a concert piece, however, it is also...

(2001)

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls (composition)

Niagara Falls for Symphonic Band by American composer Michael Daugherty, is his first composition for the Concert band. It is a 10 minute, single-movement work, that explores the most visited waterfalls in the world. Niagara Falls was commissioned by the University of Michigan Bands in honor of...

(1997)

David Dzubay

Myaku (1999)

Ra! (2002)

Shadow Dance (2006)

Eric Ewazen

Eric Ewazen is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School...

A Hymn for the Lost and the Living (2001)

Aldo Rafael Forte

Synergy! (1997)

Michael Gandolfi

Michael James Gandolfi is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Initially a self-taught guitarist, Gandolfi entered the Berklee College of Music before transferring to the New England Conservatory of Music after one year...

Vientos y Tangos (2003)

David Gillingham

Apocalyptic Dreams (1997)

Galactic Empires (1998)

With Heart and Voice (2000)

Julie Giroux

Julie Ann Giroux is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works. She is a three time Emmy Award nominee and in 1992 won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction. Ms...

Culloden

Culloden (music)

"Culloden" is a three movement symphony for concert band by Emmy Award winning American female composer Julie Giroux, published by Musica Propria. Culloden is named after the Battle of Culloden, which is also the basis of the piece....

(2000)

No Finer Calling (2007)

A Symphony of Fables (2008)

Adam Gorb

Awayday (1996)

Peter Graham

Harrison's Dream (2001)

Donald Grantham

Donald Grantham is an American composer and music educator.Grantham was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oklahoma, he went on to receive his MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. For two summers he studied under famed French...

Fantasy Variations (1997)

J'ai ete au bal (1995)

Southern Harmony (1998)

Baron Cimetière's Mambo (2004)

Edward Gregson

Edward Gregson is an English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1945. He studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963-7, winning five prizes for composition...

Celebration (1991)

Samuel Hazo

Samuel Robert Hazo is an American composer of primarily music for concert band.-Career:Samuel R. Hazo resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and children. In 2003, Mr. Hazo became the first composer in history to be awarded the winner of both composition contests sponsored by the...

Ride (2003)

John Harbison

John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...

Three City Blocks (1991)

Kenneth Hesketh

Kenneth Hesketh is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo...

Diaghilev Dances (2002)

Yasuhide Ito

is a contemporary Japanese composer.- Early life :As a child, Ito began to cultivate his interest in music by taking piano lessons. He continued to pursue a musical education and, by his third year of high school, had composed his first piece of music for band, titled “On the March”...

Gloriosa

Gloriosa (poem)

Gloriosa is a "symphonic poem for band" composed by Yasuhide Ito. There are three movements which include: Oratio , Cantus , and Dies Festus . These songs are about Japanese Christians of the Edo Period and their fight to keep their ways unchanged.- References :*...

(1990)

Scott Lindroth

Scott Lindroth is an American composer and teacher currently based near Durham, North Carolina.Lindroth joined the faculty of Duke University in 1990, where he is currently the Vice-Provost for the Arts and the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Music; his colleagues at Duke include composers...

Spin Cycle (2001)

James MacMillan

Sowetan Spring (1990)

David Maslanka

David Maslanka is a U.S. composer who writes for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music and symphony orchestra....

Give Us This Day (2007)

Symphony No. 4 (1994)

Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...

American Games (1991)

Walter Mays

Dreamcatcher (1996)

W. Francis McBeth

Of Sailors and Whales (1991)

Cindy McTee

Cindy McTee is an American composer and educator.-Education:Cindy McTee studied at Pacific Lutheran University, the Academy of Music in Kraków, Yale University, and the University of Iowa...

Circuits (1990)

Ron Nelson

Courtly Airs and Dances (1996)

Epiphanies (Fanfares and Chorales) (1994)

Lauds (1991)

Pastorale: Autumn Rune (2006)

Sonoran Desert Holiday (1994)

Carter Pann

Carter Pann is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree...

Slalom (2003)

Marco Pütz

Four Earth Songs (for Soprano & Band, 2008)

Konzertstück (for Bass Trombone & Band, 1998)

Meltdown (1992)

Chapters of Life (for Tuba & Band, 2010)

Steven Reineke

Steven Reineke is a conductor, composer, and arranger from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the Music Director of The New York Pops. He currently resides in New York City.-Biography:...

Symphony No.1, New Day Rising (2007)

Jan Van der Roost

Jan Van der Roost is a Belgian composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the...

Suite Provençale (1992)

Rolf Rudin

The Dream of Oenghus, Op. 37 (1996)

Richard Saucedo

Windsprints (2004)

Joseph Schwantner

Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....

In Evening's Stillness (1996)

Recoil (2004)

Robert W. Smith

Robert W. Smith is an American composer, arranger, and teacher.-Biography:Smith was born in the small town of Daleville, Alabama on October 24 1958. He attended high school in Dadeville, after which he left for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching...

Inchon (2001)

Twelve Seconds to the Moon (1996)

Philip Sparke

Dance Movements (1997)

Sunrise at Angel's Gate (2001)

Jack Stamp

Jack Stamp is a highly regarded North American Wind Ensemble conductor and composer.He has nearly sixty compositions available from Neil A Kjos Music Company, including the extremely popular Gavorkna Fanfare, which was dedicated to Eugene Corporon...

Cloudsplitter Fanfare (1999)

Escapade (2002)

Gavorkna Fanfare

Jack Stamp wrote his piece Gavorkna Fanfare in the early 1990’s. This signature piece, written for wind ensemble, aided in creating a name for Stamp in wind band composition. First performed by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania wind ensemble, The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps performed it...

(1990/1)

Steven Stucky

Steven Stucky is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and...

Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1992)

Frank Ticheli

Amazing Grace (1994)

An American Elegy (2000)

Angels in The Architecture (2009)

Blue Shades (1996)

Postcard (1991)

Symphony No. 2 (2004)

Vesuvius (1997)

Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...

Triumph (1992)

Dan Welcher

Dan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.- Biography :Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition...

Zion (1996)

Circular Marches (1997)

Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor and lecturer. He is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst became an international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination...

Cloudburst

Cloudburst (Whitacre)

Cloudburst is one of Eric Whitacre's most famous compositions. It dates from 1992, when the composer was only 22. It is written for eight-part choir, accompanied by piano and percussion. The text is from Octavio Paz's poem El Cántaro Roto , adapted by Whitacre.The first section is a cappella, with...

(2002)

Ghost Train (1994)

Godzilla Eats Las Vegas! (1996)

October (2000)

Dana Wilson

Shortcut Home (1998)

Charles Rochester Young

Charles Rochester Young is an American composer, music educator, conductor and saxophonist.- Life :Young graduated from Baylor University in Waco , where in 1988 he earned his Bachelor of Music. He then studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned his Master of Music in 1990. In...

Tempered Steel (1997)

Transcriptions

There are thousands of transcriptions of pieces from other media (mostly orchestra) available for the concert band; however, some transcriptions are performed so often that they can be said to have achieved a place of their own in the concert band repertoire.
John Adams

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a musical piece composed by John Adams. The piece has now become one of the most frequently requested and performed encores in American concert-halls...

(trans. Lawrence Odom)

Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...

Four Scottish Dances (trans. John Paynter)

Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo (trans. John Paynter)

Tam o' Shanter Overture

The Tam o' Shanter Overture, Op. 51 by Malcolm Arnold was completed in March 1955.The overture is a piece of programme music based on the famous poem by Robert Burns....

(trans. John Paynter)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

Fantasia in G Major (trans. Goldman
Richard Franko Goldman
Richard Franko Goldman was a conductor, educator, author, music critic, and composer.After graduating from Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York he attended Columbia University, graduating in 1930 with an A.B. . He then went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger...

/ Leist)

Fugue a la Gigue (trans. Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

)

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major is an organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. Similar to most other organ works by Bach, the autograph score does not survive. The earliest manuscript copies were probably made in 1719–1727...

(trans. John Paynter)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. It is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire, and has been used in a variety of popular media ranging from film, video games, to rock music, and ringtones...

(trans. Erik Leidzen or Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger was the conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble from 1965 until 2001. He also held the position of Professor of conducting at Eastman...

)

Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Presumably composed early in Bach's career, it is one of his most important and well-known works, and an important influence on 19th and 20th century passacaglias: Robert Schumann described the variations of the...

(trans. Nicholas Falcone or Donald Hunsberger)

The Art of Fugue

The Art of Fugue , BWV 1080, is an incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues and 2 canons, was copied by the composer in 1745...

(trans. Kenneth Amis
Kenneth Amis
Kenneth Amis is the tuba player with the Empire Brass. He is also the assistant conductor of the MIT Wind Ensemble, a group he has been involved with since its creation in 1999. In addition, as of 2005, Amis is an Affiliated Artist of MIT....

)

Samuel Barber

First Symphony

Symphony in One Movement (Barber)

Samuel Barber's Symphony in One Movement , was completed 24 February 1936. It was premiered by Rome's Philharmonic Augusteo Orchestra under the baton of Bernardino Molinari 13 December 1936. It lasts around 21 minutes....

(trans. Guy Duker)

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

Overture to "Candide

Candide (operetta)

Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler which is more faithful to...

" (trans. Walter Beeler or Clare Grundman)

Slava! A Political Overture

Slava! A Political Overture for Orchestra is a short orchestral composition by Leonard Bernstein. It was written for the inaugural concerts of Mstislav Rostropovich's first season with the National Symphony Orchestra in 1977...

(trans. Clare Grundman)

Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story

West Side Story

West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...

" (trans. Paul Lavender)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

Academic Festival Overture

Academic Festival Overture , Op. 80, by Johannes Brahms, was one of a pair of contrasting concert overtures — the other being the Tragic Overture, Op. 81, written to balance it as its pair...

(trans. Mark Hindsley)

Haydn Variations (trans. Mark Hindsley)

Aaron Copland

Down a Country Lane (trans. Merlin Patterson)

El Salón México

El Salón México is a symphonic composition in one movement by Aaron Copland, which uses Mexican folk music extensively.-Analysis and history:...

(trans. Mark Hindsley)

Lincoln Portrait

Lincoln Portrait is a classical orchestral work written by the American composer Aaron Copland. The work involves a full orchestra, with particular emphasis on the brass section at climactic moments. The work is narrated with the reading of excerpts of Abraham Lincoln's great documents, including...

(trans. Walter Beeler)

An Outdoor Overture (trans. Aaron Copland)

Preamble for a Solemn Occasion (trans. Aaron Copland)

Claude Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

Préludes, Book 1: X. La cathédrale engloutie

La cathédrale engloutie

La cathédrale engloutie is a prelude written by the French composer Claude Debussy for solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each...

(trans. Merlin Patterson)

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Carnival Overture (Dvořák)

The Carnival Overture, Op. 92, B. 169, was written by Antonin Dvořák in 1892. It is part of a "Nature, Life and Love" trilogy of overtures written by Dvořák, forming the second "Life" part. The other two parts of the trilogy are overtures in a trilogy of overtures that included In Nature's Realm,...

(trans. Leigh Steiger)

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"

Symphony No. 9 (Dvorák)

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 , popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular in the modern repertoire...

: IV. Finale (trans. Mark Hindsley, Erik Leidzen or Weston Nicholi)

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

Prelude No. 2 in C Sharp Minor (trans. John Krance)

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects....

(trans. Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé was a prominent American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.-Early life:...

, Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger was the conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble from 1965 until 2001. He also held the position of Professor of conducting at Eastman...

or Tohru Takahashi)

Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...

Estancia Suite, Op. 8a (trans. Donald Patterson)

Percy Grainger

The Warriors (trans. Frank Pappajohn)

Ferde Grofé

Ferde Grofé was a prominent American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.-Early life:...

Mississippi Suite

The Mississippi Suite is an orchestral suite in four movements by Ferde Grofé, depicting scenes along a journey down the Mississippi River from its headwaters of Minnesota down to New Orleans.-History:...

, "A Journey in Tones" (trans. Don Chown)

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...

Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber

The Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber is an orchestral work composed in America by Paul Hindemith in 1943.-History:...

(trans. Keith Wilson
Keith Wilson (musician)
Keith L. Wilson is an American classical musician. He is a clarinetist, teacher, and conductor.-Teaching and conducting career:Wilson was appointed to the faculty of the Yale School of Music, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1946....

)

Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

A Moorside Suite (trans. Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...

or Denis Wright)

Capriccio (trans. John Boyd)

The Planets

The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst...

(trans. George Smith probably with the collaboration of the composer)

Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

Old Home Days (trans. Jonathan Elkus)

Country Band March (trans. James Sinclair)

Fugue in C Minor, from String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army"

String Quartet No. 1 (Ives)

String Quartet No. 1 is one of the most studied works by composer Charles Ives. The piece is composed for the standard string quartet of two violins, a viola, and a cello. There are four movements:*I. Andante con moto*II. Allegro*III. Adagio cantabile...

: I: Chorale (trans. James Sinclair)

Variations on "America

My Country, 'Tis of Thee

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith. The melody derived from Muzio Clementi's Symphony No. 3, and is shared with "God Save the Queen," used by many members of the Commonwealth of Nations...

" (trans. William Schuman
William Schuman
William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...

/ William Rhoads)

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

Night on Bald Mountain

Night on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in, at least, two versions—a seldom performed 1867 version or a later and very popular "fantasy for orchestra" arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, A Night on the Bare Mountain , based on the vocal score of the "Dream Vision...

(trans. William Schaefer or Mark Hindsley)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists...

(trans. Mark Hindsley, Erik Leidzen or Tohru Takahashi)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

Procession of the Nobles from "Mlada

Mlada (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Mlada is an opera-ballet in four acts, composed between 1889 and 1890 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to a libretto by Viktor Krylov that was originally employed for an aborted project of the same name from 1872.-Performance history:...

" (trans. Erik Leidzen)

Scheherazade

Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Sheherazade , Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, sometimes known as The Arabian Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colourful...

(trans. Mark Hindsley)

Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

The Pines of Rome

Pini di Roma

Pines of Rome is a symphonic poem written in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and, together with Fontane di Roma and Feste Romane, forms what is sometimes loosely referred to as his "Roman trilogy"...

(trans. Guy Duker or Yoshihiro Kimura)

Gioacchino Rossini

Italian in Algiers

L'italiana in Algeri

L'italiana in Algeri is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca...

Overture (trans. Lucien Cailliet
Lucien Cailliet
Lucien Cailliet was an American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist.-Biography:Born at Dijon, in France, Cailliet studied at the Conservatory in his native city before migrating to the United States in 1918....

)

William Tell Overture

The William Tell Overture is the instrumental introduction to the opera Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal...

(trans. Erik Leidzen)

Tancredi

Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancrède...

Overture (trans. Leonard Falcone
Leonard Falcone
Leonard Falcone was best known as Professor of Baritone and Euphonium at Michigan State University where he also served from 1927 to 1967 as Director of Bands. The school's Spartan Marching Band transitioned from an ROTC auxiliary to a nationally known Big-10 conference marching band during his...

)

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

Festive Overture

Festive Overture (Shostakovich)

The Festive Overture in A major, Op. 96, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1954 for a concert held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution ....

(trans. Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger
Donald Hunsberger was the conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble from 1965 until 2001. He also held the position of Professor of conducting at Eastman...

)

October (trans. Preston Mitchell)

Folk Dances (trans. H. Robert Reynolds)

Galop from "Moscow, Cheryomushki

Moscow, Cheryomushki

Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op. 105. It is sometimes referred to as simply Cheryomushki...

" (trans. Donald Hunsberger)

Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...

Finlandia

Finlandia is a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius.Finlandia may also refer to:* Finlandia Hymn, a section of the Sibelius symphonic poem Finlandia* Finlandia University, a private university located in Hancock, Michigan, USA...

(trans. Lucien Cailliet)

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

The Firebird

The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....

Suite (trans. Guy Duker, Thomas Knox, or Lawrence Odom)

Fireworks

Feu d'artifice

Feu d'artifice, Op. 4 is an early composition by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1908. The work is an orchestral fantasy, and usually takes about five minutes to perform....

(trans. Mark Rogers)

Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...

/Charles Mackerras

Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...

Pineapple Poll

Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. Pineapple Poll is based on "The Bumboat Woman's Story", one of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, written in 1870. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore was...

(trans. William J. Duthoit)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

1812 Overture

The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of...

(trans. Conway Brown, Yoshihiro Kimura, Mayhew Lake or Mark Williams)

Suite No. 3 in G Major

Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 in 1884, writing it concurrently with his Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56, for piano and orchestra. Its first performance was in St. Petersburg on January 24, 1885, under the direction of Hans von Bülow...

(trans. Frank Winterbottom)

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin

Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself...

" (trans. Lucien Cailliet)

Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin" (trans. Mark Hindsley)

"Tannhauser

Tannhäuser (opera)

Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...

" Overture (trans. Vincent Frank Safranek
Vincent Frank Safranek
Vincent Frank "V.F." Safranek was an Czech American musician. He was born in Bohemia and died in San Diego. He came to the United States at an early age...

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...

Crown Imperial (trans. William J. Duthoit)

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

Invitation to the Dance

Invitation to the Dance (Weber)

Invitation to the Dance , Op. 65, J. 260, is a piano piece in rondo form written by Carl Maria von Weber in 1819. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz...

Oberon

Oberon (opera)

Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath is a 3-act romantic opera in English with spoken dialogue and music by Carl Maria von Weber. The libretto by James Robinson Planche was based on a German poem, Oberon, by Christoph Martin Wieland, which itself was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French...

Overture (trans. Mark Hindsley)

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

Prelude to Act 1, La Traviata

La traviata

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...

(trans. Leonard Falcone
Leonard Falcone
Leonard Falcone was best known as Professor of Baritone and Euphonium at Michigan State University where he also served from 1927 to 1967 as Director of Bands. The school's Spartan Marching Band transitioned from an ROTC auxiliary to a nationally known Big-10 conference marching band during his...

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Recordings of Concert Band Literature

The Klavier Wind Recording Project, begun in 1989 by Eugene Corporon while he was director of bands at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, has helped provide recordings of many of the most important and more recent pieces in the wind band literature. The recording project continues today, having followed Corporon to the University of North Texas

University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...

. Still more recordings have been released by The Keystone Winds, conducted by Jack Stamp. The Keystone Winds consists of faculty, alumni and students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Concordia University Chicago

Concordia University Chicago

Concordia University Chicago is an American private, Lutheran liberal arts university located in the Illinois suburb of River Forest, 10 miles west of Chicago.-Description:...

Wind Symphony, under Dr. Richard Fischer, has just released its twelfth recording of sacred wind music. Since the series began in 1991, the ensemble has made many premiere recordings of now widely known and played wind literature.

Hearts Music - CCM Wind Symphony University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....

College-Conservatory of Music (MCD-780).
Made in America - CCM Wind Symphony (MCC-559)

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