Music Program Notes for
Band and Wind Ensemble Music
This is an index, ordered by composer, of the program notes and
biographies
generated for use in programs for performances of the
Foothill College Symphonic Wind
Ensemble. Usually,
the program format provided information on the composition and a
biographical
note. In some cases, a composer may have multiple entries,
representative
of writeups tailored to match the space available in the program. The
material
below has been adapted from several sources. Noteable are the following
works
that should be in everyone's library:
Norman E. Smith, Program Notes for Band,
Program Note
Press, Lake Charles, LA 2000.
Norman Smith and Albert Stoutamire, Band Music
Notes, Third Printing, Program Note Press, Lake Charles, LA
1989.
Norman E. Smith, March Music Notes,
Program Note Press, Lake Charles, LA, 1986.
Additional information has been culled from The
Instrumentalist,
Groves', program notes by Frederick Fennell, and the
Internet. The
biographical data was believed correct at the time of the writing, but
should
be checked for validity for the contemporary composers.
Links to other
sources of program notes.
Program Themes
Composer Index
- Ades, Hawley
- Irving Berlin - A Symphonic Portrait
- Adler,
Samuel
- Southwestern Sketches
- Agostini,
G.
- The Three Trumpeters
- Alexander,
Russell
- Colossus of Columbia
- Alford,
Kenneth J.
- The Vanished Army
- Allen,
Virginia A.
- Women of the Podium, March
- Anderson,
Leroy
- A Christmas Festival
A Leroy Anderson Portrait (arranged by Warren Barker)
A Trumpeter's Lullaby
Bugler's Holiday
Serenata
- Aquilanti,
Giancarlo
- Divertimento per Banda
La Marcia
- Archer,
Kimberly K.
- Odyssey
- Arnold,
Malcolm
- A Grand Grand Overture for Three Vacuum
Cleaners, One Floor Polisher,
and Concert Band
English Dances
Four Scottish Dances
Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo
Sarabande and Polka
- Bach, Johann S.
- My Heart is Filled With Longing
Sleepers Wake
Prelude and Fugue in D minor
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
- Bach,
P.D.Q.
- Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and
Percussion
- Barker,
Warren
- A Leroy Anderson Portrait
Capriccio for Saxophone Quartet and Band
- Concertante for Piano and Band
In the Miller Mood
- Mancini Spectacular
Phantasmagoria March
- Barnes,
James
- Autumn Soliloquy
Beautiful Oregon
Fantasy Variations, On a Theme by Paganini
- Barnhouse,
C. L.
- Harmony Heaven, March
The Battle of Shiloh, March
- Bartók,
Béla
- Nocturne (Soir a la Campagne)
- Beethoven,
Ludwig von
- Finale from Symphony No. 1 in C
Overture to Egmont
- Bencriscutto,
Frank
- Serenade for Solo Alto Saxophone and Band
- Bennett,
Robert Russell
- Autobiography, Part Two
Four Preludes For Band
Suite of Old American Dances
Symphonic Songs for Band
- Bergsma,
William
- Hungarian March with Trumpets
- Berlioz,
Hector
- Hungarian March Rákóczy
March to the Scaffold from
"Symphonic Fantastique"
- Bernstein,
Leonard
- A Bernstein Tribute (arranged by
Clare Grundman)
Danzon
Divertimento for Symphonic Band
Overture to Candide
Profanation from "Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1"
- Slava! A Concert Overture
Symphonic Dance Music from "West Side Story"
- Bilik,
Jerry
- American Civil War Fantasy
- Bloomer
Deussen, Nancy
- Reflections On The Hudson
The Voyage of Christopher Columbus
- Bremer,
Carolyn
- Early Light
- Brinkmann,
Eric
- Suite for Band, I. Prelude
- Britten,
Lord Benjamin
- Soirees Musicales (based
on music
of Rossini)
- Buehlman,
Barbara
- (See Giuseppi Verdi's Ave Maria)
- Burkhart,
Raymond David
- Rejoice!
- Calvert, Morley
- Suite from the Monteregian Hills
- Camphouse,
Mark
- In Memoriam
- Cassadó,
Gaspar
- Toccata (in the style of G.
Frescobaldi)
- Chaminade,
Cécile
- Concertino
- Chance,
John Barnes
- Blue Lake
Elegy
Incantation and Dance
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
- Chattaway,
Jay
- Salute To P.S. Gilmore
- Cheetham,
John
- Infinite Horizons
- Chen
Yi
- Spring Festival
- Christensen,
James
- German Carol Festival
- Clarke,
Herbert L.
- Carnival of Venice
- Coates,
Eric
- The Dam Busters March
- Copland,
Aaron
- Fanfare for the Common Man
Lincoln Portrait
The Red Pony, Film Suite for Band
Variations on a Shaker Melody
-
- Curnow,
James
- Mutanza
Symphonic Variants for Euphonium and Band
Where Never Lark Or Eagle Flew
- Daehn, Larry
- With Quiet Courage
- de
Meij, Johan
- Polish Christmas Music
Symphony No. 1, "The Lord of the Rings", V. Hobbits
- Debussy,
Claude
- Golliwog's Cakewalk from
"Children's Corner Suite"
Petite Suite
Suite, The Children's Corner
- Delle
Cese, D.
- Little English Girl, Symphonic March
- Dello
Joio, Norman
- Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn
Satiric Dances
Scenes from "The Louvre"
Variants on a Mediaeval Tune
- Denza,
Luigi
- Funiculi - Funicula Rhapsody
- Dragon,
Carmen
-
- Dukas,
Paul
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Dvorak,
Antonin
- Finale from The New World Symphony
- Ebb & Kander
- Cabaret, Selections for
Concert
Band
- Elgar,
Edward
- Enigma Variations
- Erickson,
Frank
- Salvation is Created
Second Symphony for Band (Movements II & III)
- Ewald,
Victor
- Concerto For Brass Quintet and Band
- Françaix,
Jean
- Petit quatour pour Saxophones
- Frescobaldi,
Girolamo
- Toccata
- Fucik,
Julius
- Entry of the Gladiators (Thunder
and Blazes)
Unter der Admirals Flagge
- Gershwin, George
- An American in Paris
Gershwin!
Porgy and Bess
Rhapsody in Blue
Strike Up The Band
-
- Giannini,
Vittorio
- Dedication Overture
Symphony No. 3
- Gillis,
Don
- The January February March
- Gilmore,
Patrick S.
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Giroux-West,
Julie
- Mystery On Mena Mountain
To Walk With Wings, Fanfare and Overture
- Gliere,
Reinhold
- Russian Sailor's Dance
- Gould,
Morton
- Ballad
for Band
- Pavanne
Symphony for Band
Yankee Doodle, Setting for Band
- Grafulla,
Claudio
- Washington Grays
- Grainger,
Percy Aldridge
- Handel in the Strand
Irish Tune from County Derry
Lincolnshire Posy
Mock Morris
Molly on the Shore
"Shepherd's Hey" English Morris Dance
- The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
Walking Tune
Ye Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon
-
- Gregson,
Edward
- Tuba Concerto
-
- Grundman,
Clare
- Concertante for Alto Saxophone and
Symphonic
Band
-
- Halverson,
Johan
- Entry March of the Boyars
- Handel,
Georg
Frideric
- Suite
from
"Messiah"
- Hanson,
Howard
- Chorale and
Alleluia
Dies Natalis
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic", Third Movement
- Hanson,
Shelley
- La Tumba de
Alejandro
Garcia Caturla
- Hanssen,
Johannes
- Valdres
-
Norwegian March
- Hazo,
Samuel R.
- Ride
- Hearshen,
Ira
- Symphony on
Themes of John
Philip
Sousa
Mvt. III after "Fairest of the Fair"
- Hermann,
Ralph
- Prelude and
Caprice
- Hesketh,
Kenneth
- Masque
- Hindemith,
Paul
- March from "Symphonic
Metamorphosis
of Themes
by Carl Maria von Weber"
- Holsinger,
David R.
- Havendance
Hero Music
- One Day, In A Small
Town
- Holst,
Gustav
- First Suite in
E-Flat for
Military
Band
Jupiter from "The Planets"
Mars from "The Planets"
Moorside March
Second Suite for Military Band in F Major
Songs of the West
Uranus from "The Planets"
- Ives, Charles
- Variations on
'America'
- Jacob, Gordon
- An Original Suite
for
Military Band
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
William Byrd Suite
Wind in the Reeds
- Jager,
Robert
- Diamond Variations
Esprit de Corps
Heroic Saga
Sinfonia Nobilissima
- Jenkins,
Joseph Willcox
- Joplin,
Scott
- Rag-Time Dance
- Kabalevsky,
Dmitri
- Colas Breugnon
Overture
Sonatina No. 1
- Kalinnikov,
Vasily
- Finale to Symphony
No. 1
- Kandor, John
- Cabaret,
Selections for
Concert
Band
- Kaneda,
Bin
- Ondo (for
Symphonic Band)
- Kellett,
Lt. Col. Donald T.
- Congressional
Honors March
- King,
Karl L.
- Barnum and
Bailey's
Favorite
- Knox,
Thomas
- Sea Songs
- Larsen, Libby
- Northern Star
Fanfare
- Leemans,
Pierre
- March des
Parachutistes
Belges
- Lloyd
Webber, Andrew
- Selections from Phantom
of
the Opera
- Lo
Presti, Ronald
- Elegy for a Young
American
- Loewe,
Frederick
- Lerner &
Loewe in
Concert
My Fair Lady
- Lowden,
Bob
- Armed Forces
Salute
- Mackerras, Charles
- Mahr,
Timothy
- Spring
Divertimento
- Mailman,
Martin
- Liturgical Music
for Band
- Mancini,
Henry
- Mancini
Spectacular
- McBeth,
W. Francis
- Kaddish
Of Sailors and Whales
- McGinty,
Anne
- Spirals
Testimonium
'Tis A Gift
- McMichael,
Catherine
- Proud Titania
- Mendelssohn,
Felix
- Overture for
Winds, Op. 24
- Mennin,
Peter
- Canzona
- Milhaud,
Darius
- Suite Francaise
- Miller,
Glenn
- In the Miller Mood
- Mogensen,
Michael A.
- Afterglow: Light Still
Shining
- Moussorgsky,
Modeste
- Pictures at an
Exhibition
Night on Bald Mountain
- Mozart,
Wolfgang A.
- The Marriage of
Figaro
Overture
- Nelhýbel,
Václav
- Corsican Litany
- Nelson,
Ron
- Lauds
Savannah River Holiday Overture
- Nestico,
Sammy
- Persuasion
- Nixon,
Roger
- Festival Fanfare
- March
Fiesta del Pacifico
- Orff, Carl
- Carmina Burana
- Padilla, Jose
- El Relicario
- Persichetti,
Vincent
- Bagatelles For
Band
Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face
Divertimento for Band
Pageant
Psalm for Band
Serenade for Band
- Prokofiev,
Sergei
- March -
Opus 99
Peter and The Wolf
- Reed, Alfred
- Armenian Dances,
Part I
Armenian Dances, Part II
El Camino Real (A Latin Fantasy)
Russian Christmas Music
Viva Musica!
- Reed,
H. Owen
- La Fiesta
Mexicana
- Reed,
Nancy B.
- Civilian March
- Reeves,
David W.
- Yankee Doodle,
Fantasie
Humoresque
- Respighi,
Ottorinio
- La Boutique
Fantasque
- Rimsky-Korsakov,
Nicholai
- Concerto for Trombone and Band
Introduction and Wedding March from "The
Golden Cockerel"
Procession of the
Nobles
from
"Mlada"
- Rodgers,
Richard
- Victory at Sea
- Rossini,
Gioacchino
- La Boutique
Fantasque
La Gazza Ladra Overture
- Soirees Musicales,
based
on music
of Rossini
William Tell Overture
- Rush,
Tracey
- Spirit of Freedom
- Saint-Saëns,
Camille
- Morceau de Concert
Pas Redoble', Op. 86
- Schickele,
Prof. Peter
- (See P.D.Q.
Bach)
- Schuman,
William
- Be Glad Then,
America
Chester - Overture for Band
When Jesus Wept
- Schwartz,
Ira P.
- Sax Serenade
- Seward,
Nancy H.
- Beneath The
Shining Skies
- Shostakovich,
Dmitri
- Burlesque
Folk Dances
- Symphony No. 5,
Finale
Symphony No. 9, Finale
- Simóns,
Moisés
- The Peanut Vendor
- Smith,
Claude T.
- Eternal Father,
Strong to
Save
Fantasia for Alto Saxophone
Incidental Suite
Symphony No. 1 for Band
- Sochinski,
James
- Suite from The
Legend of
Alcobaca
- Sousa,
John Philip
- Bullets and
Bayonets
George Washington Bicentennial March
Hands Across The Sea
The Glory of the Yankee Navy
The Rifle Regiment March
- Sparke,
Philip
- Celebration
Four Norfolk Dances
Mountain Song
To A New Dawn
- Spears,
Gay Holmes
- Reflections on
"Wondrous
Love"
- Stamp,
Jack
- Fanfare for a New
Era
- Gavorkna Fanfare
Pastime: A Salute to Baseball
- Sullivan,
Sir Arthur
- Suite from the Ballet
"Pineapple
Poll"
- Suppe,
Franz von
- Poet and Peasant
Overture
- Tchaikowsky,
Peter Ilyich
- Dance Of The
Jesters
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Finale
- Ticheli,
Frank
- Amazing Grace
Blue Shades
Shenandoah
Vesuvius
- Tower,
Joan
- Celebration
Fanfare
from
"Stepping
Stones"
- Traditional/Vosbein,
Terry
- I Wonder as I
Wonder
- van der
Roost, Jan
- Dynamica
- Pustza
- Vaughan
Williams, Ralph
- Sea Songs
Variations for Wind Band
- Verdi,
Giuseppi
- Ave Maria
(arranged by
Barbara
Buehlman)
Overture to La Forza del Destino
- Vivaldi,
Antonio
- Concerto in C for
Piccolo
and Band
- Vosbein,
Terry
- I Wonder as I
Wander
- Wagner, Richard
-
- Ward,
Samuel Augustus
- America, The Beautiful
- Wengler,
Marcel
- Marsch
- Whitacre,
Eric
- Ghost Train
- Whitcomb,
Kenneth
- The Sheffordshire
Regiment
- Williams,
Clifton
- Fanfare and
Allegro
Symphonic Dance No. 3, Fiesta
Symphonic Suite
The Sinfonians, Symphonic March
- Williams,
John
- March from "1941"
Midway March
Star Wars Medley
Star Wars Trilogy
Symphonic Suite from “Far and Away”
The Cowboys
Theme from "Schindler's List"
- Wood,
Haydn
- Mannin
Veen
- Woolfenden,
Guy
- Illyrian
Dances
-
Zdechlik,
John P.
- Celebrations
Chorale
and
Shaker Dance
Psalm 46
Sing My Tongue, Alleluia
- Zindars,
Earl
- Fanfare
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