Concert Band Music 2025-2026
Concert Band Music 2025-2026
First Achievement Series - Grade ½
Early Achievement Series - Grade 1
Achievement Series - Grade 1½
Achievement Plus Series - Grades 2-2½
Concert Series - Grades 3-3½
Symphonic Series - Grades 4 & Up
The Ohio State University Symphonic Band
Scott A. Jones, conductor
Regan E. Tackett, soprano
Mark Thress, tenor
The Bourgeois Editions
Composers of New Concert Band Music
Key to Selecting the Right Grade Level
Providing more accessible music at lower grade levels, in 2022 we expanded our Achievement and Achievement Plus series to four separate grade levels in the series. We also expanded our grading series upward, moving grade 3 into its own series (Concert Series) and grade 4 & up into a new series called the Symphonic Series. Achieving through music has never been easier with the expanded – and now color-coded – Wingert-Jones grading system.
- Pieces using the first 6 notes of the Bb scale
- Rhythm: whole, half, quarter and two repeated eighth-notes
- Optional alternate parts for horn (lower range) and trombone (nothing past 4th position)
- Low brass and low woodwinds cover the bass line
- Playable by first year musicians
- Limited range of the first octave
- Rhythm: whole, half, quarter and simple eighth-note patterns
- Clarinet part stays below the break
- Bass line is reinforced throughout with multiple lower instruments
- Active percussion
- Accessible to first year musicians and those beginning the second year of study
- Range is expanded, but still limited
- Rhythm: whole, half, quarter and eighth-notes, simple syncopation
- Addition of two Trumpet and Clarinet parts. 2nd Clarinet stays below the break, 1st Clarinet crosses the break carefully
- Bass line is reinforced throughout, but with more independence in the low brass
- Active percussion
- Accessible to second and third year musicians
- Range is expanded, but still carefully considered
- Rhythm: whole, half, quarter and eighth-notes, and simple sixteenth patterns
- Clarinet 2 still stays below the break
- Separate parts for Trombone, Euphonium, and Bassoon
- Careful scoring to make the band sound full
- Percussion treated as an important color
- Fully scored pieces for upper middle school and high school
- Range is expanded, but still carefully considered
- More advanced rhythms and part independence
- 3 Clarinet and Trumpet parts, 2 Horn and Trombone parts
- Generous cross-cueing of solos or exposed parts
- More advanced use of percussion
- Fully scored pieces for high school and collegiate level ensembles
- High artistic merit
- Range is within reason for advancing ensembles
- Rhythm: within reason and more use of mixed meter
- Scoring makes use of all colors
- Cross-cueing of solos or exposed parts
- More advanced use of percussion
- Percussion as an essential color
Ready Sets are an additional option beyond the traditional standard set of printed score and parts. They are intended to be ready to pass out and play immediately from the box using licensed, official copies.
Option 1
• Full Conductor's Score
• Full set of 9"x12" printed parts
READY SET INCLUDES ADDITIONAL
• 3 Additional Printed Judges' Scores
For directors who want the peace of mind that they have scores ready and on time for contest/festival adjudication.
Option 2
• Full Conductor's Score
• Full set of 9"x12" printed parts
READY SET INCLUDES ADDITIONAL
• Full set of 8.5"x11" official copies
of parts
• License to copy future parts
For directors who want to open the box, pass out official copies and play. With a license to make future copies or extras as needed, without the need to reach out to the publisher.
Option 3
• Full Conductor's Score
• Full set of 9"x12" printed parts
READY SET INCLUDES ADDITIONAL
• 3 Additional Printed Judges' Scores
• Full set of 8.5"x11" official copies of parts
• License to copy future parts
For directors who want it all - includes all benefits of the Judge's and Class Set.
*Currently available for select titles, with more coming soon!