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Listing of the Top Seventy Three Compositions for Wind Band in this Study

 

An Evaluation of Compositions for Wind-Band According to Specific Criteria of Serious Artistic Merit: A Replication and Update

 

Jay W. Gilbert, D.M.

Doane College, Crete, Nebraska U.S.A.

 

TABLE 12

 

SEVENTY-THREE COMPOSITIONS FAMILIAR TO ALL TWENTY EVALUATORS RECEIVING THE MINIMUM PERCENTAGE OF POINTS LISTED BY PERCENTAGE OF MAXIMUM POSSIBLE POINTS

 

 

The purpose of this study was to determine what available compositions, from a selected list of compositions for wind and percussion instruments in ensemble combination utilizing a conductor, most closely meet the criteria of serious artistic merit? One hundred ninety-one compositions were identified as meeting the specific criteria of serious artistic merit and are identified in Tables 12-17 listed in the study. These Tables are organized according to evaluator familiarity. Table 12 is a listing of 73 compositions known to all twenty evaluators. The percentage of maximun possible points is the derived from comparing the total number of points awared by the evaluators to the maximum number of points the piece could recieve. For more in formation see A List of Compositions.

 

TABLE 12

 

SEVENTY-THREE COMPOSITIONS FAMILIAR TO ALL TWENTY EVALUATORS RECEIVING THE MINIMUM PERCENTAGE OF POINTS LISTED BY PERCENTAGE OF MAXIMUM POSSIBLE POINTS

 

 

 

 

 

COMPOSER

 

 

COMPOSITION

PERCENTAGE OF MAXIMUM POSSIBLE POINTS

Dvorak, Antonin

Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44 (1878)

100.0%

Grainger, Percy

Lincolnshire Posy(1937)

 
Husa, Karel

Music for Prague(1968)

 
Mozart, W. A.

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat, K370a (old K361) (1781-95)

 
Dahl, Ingolf

Sinfonietta for Band(1961)

99.0%

Hindemith, Paul

Symphony in B-flat(1951)

 
Holst, Gustav

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

 
Stravinsky, Igor

Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1924)

 
Stravinsky, Igor

Symphonies of Wind Instruments (revised 1947)

 
Schmitt, Florent

Dionysiaques, Op. 62 (1914-25)

98.0%

Schöenberg, Arnold

Theme and Variations, Op. 43a (1943)

 
Schwantner, Joseph

...and the mountains rising nowhere(1977)

 
Holst, Gustav

Suite No. 1 in E-flat(1909)

97.0%

Benson, Warren

The Leaves are Falling (1963)

95.0%

Benson, Warren

The Passing Bell(1974)

 
Copland, Aaron

Emblems (1964)

 
Strauss, Richard

Serenade Op. 7 (1881)

 
Colgrass, Michael

Winds of Nagual(1985)

94.0%

Dahl, Ingolf

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra(1949)

 
Gounod, Charles

Petite Symphonie in B-flat, Op. 90 (1888)

 
Schuller, Gunther

Symphony for Brass and Percussion(1950)

 
Persichetti, Vincent

Symphony No. 6, Op. 69 (1956)

93.0%

Wagner, Richard

Trauersinfonie(1844) revised by Erik Leidzen

 
Bruckner, Anton

Mass No. 2 in E Minor (1882)

92.0%

Husa, Karel

Apotheosis of this Earth (1971)

 
Husa, Karel

Concerto for Wind Ensemble (1982)

 
Husa, Karel

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band(1967)

 
Jacob, Gordon

William Byrd Suite(1924)

 
Grainger, Percy

Colonial Song(1918)

91.0%

Holst, Gustav

Suite No. 2 in F(1911)

 
Persichetti, Vincent

Masquerade for Band, Op. 102 (1965)

 
Reynolds, Verne

Scenes (1971)

 
Schuman, William

New England Triptych: Be Glad Then, America; When Jesus Wept; Chester (1956)

 
Maslanka, David

A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)

90.0%

Milhaud, Darius

Suite Française, Op. 248 (1944)

 
Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Toccata Marziale(1924)

 
Dello Joio, Norman

Variants on a Medieval Tune(1963)

89.0%

Kurka, Robert

The Good Soldier Schweik: Suite, Op. 22 (1957)

88.0%

Reed, H. Owen

La Fiesta Mexicana(1949)

87.0%

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

English Folk Song Suite (1923)

 
Bach, J. S.

Fantasia in G Major, transcribed by Richard Franko Goldman and Robert L. Leist

86.0%

Bennett, Robert Russell

Suite of Old American Dances(1949)

 
Benson, Warren

The Solitary Dancer(1969)

 
Corigliano, John

Gazebo Dances(1978)

 
Schuman, William

George Washington Bridge: An Impression for Band(1950)

86.0%

Bassett, Leslie

Designs, Images and Textures (1966)

85.0%

Gould, Morton

Symphony No. 4(West Point Symphony) (1952)

 
Persichetti, Vincent

Divertimento for Band, Op. 42 (1950)

 
Hindemith, Paul

Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber(1943), transcribed by Keith Wilson

84.0%

Husa, Karel

Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble(1970-71)

 
Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Scherzo alla Marcia from Symphony No. 8 (1956)

 
Bernstein, Leonard

Profanation from "Jeremiah Symphony" (1944), transcribed by Frank Bencriscutto

82.0%

Grainger, Percy

Molly on the Shore(1920)

 
Hartley, Walter

Concerto for 23 Wind Instruments(1957)

 
Penderecki, Krzystztof

Pittsburgh Overture(1967)

 
Bach, J. S.

Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, transcribed by Donald Hunsberger

81.0%

Hindemith, Paul

"Geschwindmarsch" from Symphony Serena (1946)

 
Toch, Ernst

Spiel for Bläsorchester, Op. 39 (1926)

 
Bennett, Robert Russell

Symphonic Songs for Band (1958)

80.0%

Berlioz, Hector

Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, Op. 15 (1840)

 
Copland, Aaron

An Outdoor Overture (1942)

 
Copland, Aaron

Lincoln Portrait(1942)

 
Ives, Charles

Variations on "America" (from the William Schuman Orchestration)(1891), transcribed by William Rhodes

 
Persichetti, Vincent

Celebrations(Cantata No. 3), Op. 103 (1966)

 
Copland, Aaron

El Salón México(1936), transcribed by Mark Hindsley

79.0%

Dello Joio, Norman

Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn(1967)

 
Giannini, Vittorio

Symphony No. 3(1959)

 
Hanson, Howard

Chorale and Alleluia, Op. 42 (1954)

 
Husa, Karel

Smetana Fanfare(1984)

 
Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana: Suite (1937), transcribed by John Krance

 
Persichetti, Vincent

Psalm for Band, Op. 53 (1952)

 
Rodgers, Bernard

Three Japanese Dances (1933/53)

 
Schwantner, Joseph

From a Dark Millennium (1980)

 


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