A list of quality works for band available in Australia
Regarding the repertoire available:
Part of my work at the Queensland Conservatorium is to investigate new music in respect of its relevance to the training of conductors and as performance repertoire at all levels.
That information is also utilised in music selection lists by various festivals around Australia. The listing of materials that follows is arranged in the grading commonly used in Australia. For your information, the equivalent grading to the USA levels are:
Premier: Grade 4 – 5
A Grade: Grade 3 – 4
B Grade: Grade 2½ – 3
C Grade: Grade 1.5 – 2
D Grade: Grade 1
Novice: up to and including some Grade 1
This is not an exhaustive list and is prepared to assist you in your investigation of repertoire available around the world. The list includes works from 2005, plus materials that have become more readily available in Australia at that time. Some of the works are re-releases by the publishers and I have included them as a form of assistance to the new generation of conductors.
I would be pleased to further discuss repertoire with you. I can be contacted at:
Ralph Hultgren
Head of Pre-Tertiary Studies
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
114 Grey Street South Bank
P.O. Box 3428 South Bank QLD 4101
Telephone: +61 7 3875 6253
Fax: +61 7 3875 6366
Email: R.Hultgren@griffith.edu.au
Publisher Codes
Alfred Publishing (Alf)
Anglo Music Press (AM)
Band Music Press (BMP)
Bandquest (Bq)
BCM International (BCM)
Belwin/Warner (B/W)
Brolga Music (BM)
Curnow Music Press (CMP)
Daehn Publications (Dhn)
De Haske Publications (Has)
Grand Mesa Music (GMM)
Great Works Publishing (GW)
Hal Leonard (Hal)
Ludwig Music (LM)
Musicworks (Mw)
Neil A. Kjos Music (Kjos)
Queenwood/Kjos (Q)
Studio Music (SM)
Premier (4–5)
Bayou Breakdown — Brant Karrick (Alf)
Chorale and Variations — Philip Sparke (AM)
Circus Galop — Sousa/Schissel (LM)
Dave Brubeck: It’s About Time — Brubeck/Sayre (B/W)
Diamond Variations — Robert Jager (B/W)
Everyday Hero — Timothy Mahr (Kjos)
Fanfare for a Golden Sky — Scott Boerma (Kjos)
Fantasia on Aura Lee — Ira Hearshen (LM)
Fantasia on the Thanksgiving Hymn — Thomas Root (GM)
Grant Them Eternal Rest — Andrew Boysen Jnr (Kjos)
Light Cavalry — von Suppe/Schissel (LM)
Metamarch — Stephen Bryant (BCM)
Motivations — Anne McGinty (Q)
Overture 1812 — Tchaikovsky/Godfrey (B/W)
Partita — Robert Linn (Kjos)
Pavanne — Morton Gould (B/W)
Proud Heritage — William P Latham (B/W)
Psalm — John Paulson (LM)
Ritual Dances — Shawn E Okpebholo (CMP)
Suite of Old American Dances — Robert Russell Bennett (Mw)
Symphonic Gershwin, The — Gershwin/Barker (B/W)
Symphony (Mvt. 4 - after – Hands Across the Sea) — Ira Hearshen (LM)
Symphony No. 3 — Vittorio Giannini (B/W)
Three Chorale Preludes — William P Latham (B/W)
To Conquer the Skies — Robert Sheldon (Alf)
To Keep Thine Honor Bright — Anne McGinty (Kjos)
Variation on Scarborough Fair — Calvin Custer (Mw)
Windsprints — Richard L Saucedo (Mw)
A Grade (3–4)
Alliance Fanfare — Mark Fredrick (CMP)
Alligator Alley — Michael Daugherty (Bq)
Anthem for Winds and Percussion — Claude T Smith (Mw)
Bartok Folk Rhapsody — arr Anne McGinty (Q)
Blue Alien Accumulation — Timothy Broege (Mw)
Dam Busters March, The — Coates/Wagner (B/W)
Cha Cha Yunque — Antonio J Garcia (Kjos)
Falcon Lake Overture — Robert Sheldon (Alf)
Kinesis — Michael Sweeney (Mw)
Lauda Anima — Stephen Bulla (CMP)
Many Paths — Ralph Hultgren (Kjos)
Michigan Motors — Thomas Duffy (LM)
Microburst — Brad Ciechomski (Kjos)
Officer of the Day — Hall/Edmondson (Q)
Republica — Ralph Hultgren (BM)
Scherzo (9th Symphony) — Beethoven/Bocook (Mw)
The Spirit Soars — James Curnow (CMP)
Suite Francaise — Milhaud/Higgins (Mw)
Tum Balalaika — Piet Swerts (Has)
B Grade (2.5–3)
Alleluja — Mozart/Curnow (CMP)
Appomattox — James L Hosay (CMP)
At Widdicombe Fair — Stephen Bulla (CMP)
Balleau Wood — John Edmondson (Q)
Cathedral Music (If Ye Love Me – Regnum Mundi) — Tallis/Handl/Singleton (GM)
Chant Fantastique — Anne McGinty (Q)
China Sea Voyage — Gene Milford (LM)
Columbia Gorge Suite — Steve Hodges (Alf)
Dream Chasers, The — Jared Spears (LM)
Florence Fayre, The — Jan Hadermann (Has)
Golliwog’s Cakewalk — Debussy/Lewis (Alf)
Let Me Weep (from Rinaldo) — Handel/d Haan (Has)
More Games! — Barry Kopetz (Alf)
Navy Hymn, The — Dykes/Whear (LM)
On Highways to the Sky — Chris Donze (GW)
Palm Harbor March — Albert O Davis (GW)
Pictures at an Exhibition — Mussorgsky/Sweeney (Mw)
River of Gold — Walter Cummings (GM)
Sinfonia No. 4 — Timothy Broege (Mw)
Slavonic Dance No. 8 — Dvorak/Harnsberger (Alf)
Soaring — Donald Hill (GW)
Tecumseh — Barry Kopetz (LM)
Thingamajig — William Himes (Kjos)
Toccata (from Orfeo) — Monteverdi/de Haan (Has)
Zeal — Rob Grice (GM)
C Grade (1.5–2)
African Marching Song — arr O’Reilly (Alf)
An American Ballad — Clarence Barber (GW)
Appalachian Air — arr Michael Brown (Mw)
Appalachian Folk Fantasy — Anne McGinty (Q)
Ariodante Suite — Handel/Elledge (Kjos)
Aztec Fire — Jay Bocook (Mw)
Canticum — James Curnow (Mw)
Celestial Overture — Timothy Johnson (CMP)
Cinque Quattro – Alla Marcia — Ralph Hultgren (BM)
Contempo — Michael Story (B/W)
Deep in the Jungle — Nathan Farrell (CMP)
Dunkirk March — Mark Williams (Alf)
Echoes of Santa Fe — Mark Williams (Alf)
Enter the Phoenix — Kirk Vogel (Kjos)
Festival Celebration, A — Clarence Barber (GW)
Five Good Natured Variations — Pierre la Plante (GW)
Greek Folk Trilogy — Anne McGinty (Q)
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning — Kevin Mixon (B/W)
Impressions of Handel (Aria – March) — Handel/Osterling (GW)
Latinesque — Bruce Preunigner (Alf)
Lava Ridge Overture — John Edmondson (Q)
Legend of Eagle Cave — Steve Hodges (Alf)
Lyric Ascent — Kevin Mixon (B/W)
March Bravissimo — John Edmondson (Q)
March for a Celebration — Bruce Pearson (Kjos)
Memories of Kirby — Barry Kopetz (GW)
Morpheus — Robert W Smith (B/W)
Neon — Anne McGinty (Q)
Norwegian Dance — Grieg/Curnow (CMP)
Of Kings and Castles — David Meyers (GM)
Ottoman Dances — Jacob de Haan (Has)
Pomp and Circumstance Marches — Elgar/Williams (Alf)
Postcard from Greece — Jacob de Haan (Has)
Rattler Ridge — Robert Crump (Kjos)
Storm Mountain Jubilee — Carl Strommen (B/W)
Three American Sketches — Michael Story (B/W)
Visions of Aranjuez — Mark Williams (Alf)
D Grade (1)
Abaco Beach Vacation — Mike Hannikel (CMP)
Carnaval — Michael Sweeney (Mw)
Celebrated Chop Waltz (Chop sticks) — Brian West (BM)
Country Dance — Scott Watson (Alf)
Dorian Dreamscape — Robert Sheldon (Alf)
Gone Troppo — James Hultgren/Ralph Hultgren (BM)
King’s Court, The — Nathan Farrell (CMP)
Legion of Merit — James Curnow (CMP)
Mango Tango — Barrie Gott (Kjos)
Mariachi Madness — Tom Molter (Kjos)
March of the Majestics — Robert Sheldon (Alf)
March Maximus — Michael Story (B/W)
O Waly, Waly (The Water is Wide) — arr. Douglas Wagner (B/W)
Painted Desert — Anne McGinty (Q)
Pirate’s Cove — Gene Milford (GW)
Sword of Lancelot, The — John Moss (Mw)
Waltz Of the Weiner Dogs — Dan Adams (GW)
Novice (1>)
Along Came a Spider — Mike Hannikel (CMP)
Caribbean Crustaceans — David Martin (GW)
Ceremonial Procession — Timothy Johnson (CMP)
Choo Choo Cha Cha — Dan Adams (GW)
Bugler’s Dream — arr Lavender (Mw)
Fanfare and March — Michael Sweeney (Mw)
Popcorn Prelude — Mike Hannikel (CMP)
Ritual Dance — Michael Story (B/W)
Round and Round and Round — Anne McGinty (Q)
Shenandoah — Smith/Story (B/W)
Stars — Anne McGinty (Q)
Tuba in Cuba — Victor Lopez (B/W)
Coda
Many publishers produce advertising materials to promote their publications. Ask your music dealer to obtain sample scores and recordings of published works.
As noted, this is not an exhaustive list, but a compilation of researched materials, available in Australia.
Your ensemble demands and deserves quality repertoire and it is up to you, the conductor, to spend the time in finding it. It is my hope that this listing of quality band music has been of some assistance to you in that search. Please feel free to contact me at the Queensland Conservatorium at any time.
Ralph Hultgren
Head of Pre-Tertiary Studies
Conductor, Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra
Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University
