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Music 510: Band Literature: Cornerstone Works

Cornerstone Wind Band Works

Much of this list is taken from the Wikipedia article "List of concert band literature" with other works added. Click on the link to the catalog # to place a hold on a score. Click on other links to go to articles or sound files.

Cornerstone Wind Band Works

Composer

Work

Library Call # for score

Link to Audio/Video

Samuel BARBER

Commando March (1943)

M 1247 .B37 C6 2009

Naxos link           Youtube link

Robert Russell BENNETT

Suite of Old American Dances (1950)

M 1203 .B46 S85 2001

Naxos link           Youtube link

Symphonic Songs for Band (1957)

M 1245 .B46 S96 1984

Naxos link           Youtube link

 Hector BERLIOZ

Grande symphonie funebre et triomphale, op.15 (1840)

M 3 .B52 vol.19

Naxos link           Youtube link

Arthur BIRD

Suite in D major, op.29 (1889)

M 957 .B57 S85 1991

Naxos link            Youtube link

John Barnes CHANCE

Elegy (1972)

M 1245 .C42 E44 1972

Naxos link           Youtube link

Incantation and Dance (1960)

M 1245 .C42 I42 2010

Naxos link           Youtube link

Symphony no.2 (1972)

M 1201 .C43 no.2 2000

Naxos link       Youtube link mvt.1      Youtube link mvt.2             Youtube link mvt.3

Variations on a Korean Folk Song (1966)

M 1245 .C42 V37 2010

Naxos link          Youtube link

Aaron COPLAND

Emblems (1964)

M 1245 .C66 E42 2007

Naxos link           Youtube link

Norman DELLO JOIO 

Scenes from the Louvre (1966)

M 1254 .D45 S34 2010

Naxos link           Youtube link

Antonin DVORAK

Serenade in D Minor (1878)

M 954 .D96 op.44 2002

Naxos link           Youtube link

Henry FILLMORE

Americans We (1929)

M 1247 .F54 A44 1979

Naxos link           Youtube link

The Crosley March (1928)

M 1247 .F54 C76 2001

Naxos link           Youtube link

The Footlifter (1935)

M 1247 .F54 F66 2003

Naxos link           Youtube link

His Honor (1933)

M 1247 .F54 H57 1978

Naxos link           Youtube link

King Karl King March

M 1247 .F54 K56 2007

Naxos link           Youtube link

North South College All-Stars March

M 1247 .F54 N67 2007

Youtube link

Orange Bowl March

M 1247 .F54 O73 2004

Naxos link            Youtube link

The President’s March

M 1247 .F54 P74 2008

Naxos link           Youtube link             

Trooper’s Tribunal

M 1247 .F54 T76 2009

Naxos link           Youtube link

Morton GOULD

Symphony #4 West Point

M 1201 .G68 no.4 1990

Naxos link

Percy GRAINGER 

Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)

M 1245 .G72 I74 1994

Naxos link           Youtube link

Lincolnshire Posy (1937)

M 1254 .G73 L56 1993

Naxos link 

Howard HANSON

Chorale and Alleluia (1954)

M 1245 .H36 C46 1955

Naxos link

Paul HINDEMITH

Symphony in B-Flat (1951)

M 1201 .H56 S95 1951

Naxos link           Youtube link

Gustav HOLST

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

M 1245 .H647 H35 1986

Naxos link       Youtube link              

First Suite in E-flat Major, op.28/1

M 1203 .H64 op.28 no.1

Naxos link           Youtube link

Second Suite in F Major, op.28/2

M 1203 .H64 op.28 no.2

Naxos link           Youtube link

Karel HUSA

Music for Prague (1968)

M 1203 .H88 M87 1969

Naxos link           Youtube link mvt.1           Youtube link mvt.2

Gordon JACOB

An original suite (1928)

M 1203 .J32 O74 2007

Naxos link           Youtube link

William Byrd Suite (1923)

M 1254 .B97 W54 19991

Naxos link           Youtube link

Joseph Willcox JENKINS

American Overture for Band (1956)

M 1204 .J46 A53 2003

Naxos link           Youtube link

Leon JESSEL

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

M 1258 .J47 P37 2000

Naxos link: Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten, Op. 123 (arr. for wind ensemble)

W. Francis McBETH

Masque (1968)

M 1245 .M317 M37 1968

Youtube link

Peter MENNIN

Canzona (1951)

M 1245 .M46 C36 2000

Naxos link           Youtube link

Darius MILHAUD

Suite Francaise (1944)

M 1203 .M54 S84 1947

Naxos link           Youtube link

Camillo de NARDIS

The Universal Judgment (1878)

In Process

Naxos link            Youtube link

Ron NELSON

Rocky Point Holiday (1969)

M 1245 .N44 R62 2000

Naxos link           Youtube link

Vincent PERSICHETTI

Divertimento, op.42 (1950)

M 1245 .P47 op.42 1951

Naxos link    Youtube link  (starts at 1:40—preceded by Frederick Fennell’s commentary)

Psalm for Band, op.53 (1953)

M 1245 .P47 P73 2015

Naxos link            Youtube link

Symphony no.6, op.69 (1956)

M 1201 .P47 S96 2010

Naxos link            Youtube link

Walter PISTON

Tunbridge Fair (1950)

M 1245 .P51 T86 1951

Naxos link           Youtube link

Sergei  PROKOFIEV

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

M 1260 .P76 M37 2011

Naxos link           Youtube link

Alfred REED

Armenian Dances part 1 (1972)

M 1247.9 .R43 A81 1974

Naxos link           Youtube link

Armenian Dances part 2 (1976)

M 1247.9 .R43 A82 2010

Naxos link            Youtube link

Russian Christmas Music (1944)

M 1245 .R44 R87 1997

Naxos link           Youtube link

 H. Owen REED

La Fiesta Mexicana (1949)

M 1201 .R44 F54 1954

Naxos link

Ottorino RESPIGHI 

Huntingtower, P.173 (1932)

M 1245 .R47 H86 1932 MiniScore

Naxos link     Youtube link  

Gioachino ROSSINI

Scherzo (1863)

Out of Print

Naxos link           Youtube link

Camille SAINT-SAENS

Orient et Occident, op.25 (1869)

M 1247 .S24 O74 1995

Naxos link           Youtube link

Arnold SCHOENBERG

Theme and Variations, op.43a (1943)

M 1203 .S36 T43 1949

Naxos link           Youtube link

William SCHUMAN

George Washington Bridge (1950)

M 1245 .S37 G46 1990

Naxos link           Youtube link

New England Triptych 1. Be glad, then America

M 1258 .S38 N48 1975

Naxos link               Youtube link

New England Triptych 2. When Jesus Wept

M 1254 .S38 W44 2000

Naxos link           Youtube link

New England Triptych 3. Chester

M 1204 .S38 C43 2016  (Quarto)

Naxos link            Youtube link

Joseph SCHWANTNER

…and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)

M 1245 .S38 A52 1985 Quarto

Naxos link           Youtube link

John P. SOUSA

Semper Fidelis (1888)

M 1247 .S68 S46 1995

Naxos link           Youtube link

Stars and Stripes Forever (1896)

M 2.3 .U6 R4 vol.69

Naxos link            Youtube link

The Washington Post (1889)

M 2.3 .U6 R4 vol.69

Naxos link           Youtube link

All titles for all Sousa marches

Link contains scores and recordings

Complete marches of Sousa: Scores and Recordings

Richard STRAUSS

Sonatina no. 1 in F Major

M 3 .S9 1996 vol.26 p.133-365

Naxos link

Igor STRAVINSKY

Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1924)

M 1206 .S72 C66 1968 / M 1205 .S77 C66 1960 Miniscore

Naxos link           Youtube link

Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947)

M 957 .S93 S95 2001

Naxoslink(1920)        Youtube link    

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

English Folk Song Suite (1923)

M 1203 .V38 E54 2008

Naxos link            Youtube link

Flourish for Wind Band (1939)

M 1204 .V38 F56 1972

Youtube link

Toccata Marziale (1924)

M 1245 .V38 T63 2005

Naxos link           Youtube link

Clifton WILLIAMS

Fanfare and Allegro (1956)

M 1245 .W54 F36 2001

Naxos link           Youtube link

Symphonic Dance no.3: Fiesta (1967)

M 1262 .W54 S9 no.3 2010

Naxos link            Youtube link