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Music of Appreciation (1944) Vincent Persichetti Masquerade, Op. 102 (1965) Pageant, Op. 59 (1954) Parable IX, Op. 121 (1972) Alfred Reed A Festival Prelude (1962) First Suite for Band (1976) The Hounds of Spring (1980) Anton Reicha Commemoration Symphony (1815) Ottorino Respighi Huntingtower, P. 173 (1932) Vincent Frank Safranek
American march music is march music written and/or performed in the United States. Its origins are those of European composers borrowing from the military music of the Ottoman Empire in place there from the 16th century. The American genre developed after the British model during the colonial and Revolutionary periods, then later as military ...
[2] [3] Chance wrote it during his tenure in Greensboro as part of the Ford Foundation's Young Composer Project and dedicated the piece to Herbert Hazelman and the Greensboro Senior High School Band. [4] The piece is written in three cycles, each containing the "Incantation" theme, a "percussion concerto", and the "Dance" theme. The third cycle ...
Chorale and Shaker Dance is a lively composition based on two musical themes, an original melody (the "chorale") and the Shaker tune, "Simple Gifts".It begins with a woodwind chorale composed of piccolo, flute, oboe, E♭ clarinet, B♭ clarinet, E♭ alto clarinet, B♭ bass clarinet, bassoon, and alto saxophone with a canon theme exhibited several times between the saxophone and flute.
Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association. [1] Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography, to be his masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work has six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire, England.
John Barnes Chance. John Barnes Chance (November 20, 1932 – August 16, 1972) was an American composer. 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.
October (Whitacre) October. (Whitacre) October is a contemporary piece for concert band approximately six minutes in duration that was written by Eric Whitacre in 2000. It has since had other arrangements written for Full Orchestra, String Orchestra with Percussion, [1] Brass Ensemble, Brass Band and Mallet Quartet.
Swiss Miss, (1926) arrangement of a song from Lady, Be Good. Machinery Gone Mad, (1927) unpublished. Blue Monday, (1927) a piano suite based on Gershwin's one-act opera of the same name. Merry Andrew, (1928) arrangement of a dance piece from Rosalie. Three-Note Waltz, (1931) Also known as Melody #36.