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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.
Symphonies were almost exclusively written for orchestra at the time, but, beginning in the early-mid 20th century, numerous symphonies for concert band began to appear. [vague] There are also numerous orchestral symphonies that have been transcribed for concert band, but those are not included in this article.
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, [1] is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, [2] and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.
Sea Songs; Second Suite in F for Military Band; Semper Fidelis (march) Semper Paratus (march) Seventeen Come Sunday; Seventy-Six Trombones; Sleep (Whitacre) Somewhere in My Memory; Star Wars (Main Title) The Stars and Stripes Forever; Strike Up the Band (song) Suite of Old American Dances; Summon the Heroes; Superman March; Symphonic Songs for Band
Symphonic Dialogue (All his symphonies listed here) 5: Washington Mosaics: 6: From a New Zealand Diary: 7: The Dreams of Gandalf: 8: Autumnal Fragments: Robert Levine Sanders: 1: G: Little Symphony: 1936–37: In 1938, won the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society award. The 1943 symphony in B-flat major is for concert band. Cláudio Santoro ...
Carnival for alto saxophone and concert band (1997)—Philip Sparke; Concert-Suite for solo E ♭ alto saxophone and band (1998)—William Bolcom; Die Heldenzeit, Concerto for alto saxophone and wind ensemble (1998)—Jun Nagao; Concerto for alto saxophone and wind ensemble (1999)—David Maslanka
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After those early efforts, few symphonies were written for wind bands until the 20th century when more symphonies were written for concert band than in past centuries. Although examples exist from as early as 1932, the first such symphony of importance is Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 19, Op. 46, composed in 1939. [44]