Concert Band Music 2024-2025
Concert Band Music 2024-2025
First Achievement Series - Grade ½
Subatomic - Larry Clark
Nightmare on the Housetop - John M. Pasternak
Primetime Parade - Tyler Arcari
Early Achievement Series - Grade 1
Youth Patrol - R. Alan Carter
The Forbidden Temple - John M. Pasternak
Jolly Jingle Joyride - William Owens
Radioactive - Jay Coles
The Big Guava - Joshua Hobbs
Desert Wind - Peter Sciaino
Achievement Series - Grade 1½
Untamed - Jay Coles
Sidewinder! - Matthew R. Putnam
Christmas in Scarborough - Tyler Arcari
Highland March - Gene Milford
Speed Racer - Carol Brittin Chambers
The Bus Brigade - John M. Pasternak
Desert Racers - Chris Ferguson
Sirena - Jorge L. Vargas
Achievement Plus Series - Grades 2-2½
Always - Joshua Hobbs
Wild Stallions - Mark Lortz
Amparito Roca - Texidor, arr. Tyler Arcari
Champion - Jay Coles
The Hound and the Hare - Matthew R. Putnam
Aces of the Sky - Christina Huss
Cool Yule - Gene Milford
Raisins and Almonds - Gene Milford
Cobra Tango - James Meredith
Counterpunch! - Jorge L. Vargas
Defender's Oath - Tyler Arcari
Concert Series - Grades 3-3½
Big Top Melody Shop - Joshua Hobbs
Can-Can - Mark Lortz
High Point - Gene Milford
A Christmas Couplet - Vince Gassi
In Morning Light - Clifton Jones
Among the Skies - Bruce W. Tippette
Elevation - Chandler L. Wilson
La Fiesta Brava - Trestin Durant
Alegría - Carol Brittin Chambers
San-Too-Chee - William Owens
Symphonic Series - Grades 4 & Up
Event Horizon - John Dupuis
Incandescent Sky - Robert Sheldon
Cape Breton Highlands - Gene Milford
ConnectUS - Carol Brittin Chambers
That Little Beast - Peter Sciaino
The Bourgeois Editions
Our Heroes - Fucik, arr. John Bourgeois
Polonaise - Dvorak, arr. John Bourgeois
A Real Slow Drag - Joplin, arr. John Bourgeois
Composers of New Concert Band Music
Tyler Arcari
John R. Bourgeois
R. Alan Carter
Carol Brittin Chambers
Larry Clark
Jay Coles
John Dupuis
Trestin Durant
Vince Gassi
Chris Ferguson
Joshua Hobbs
Christina Huss
Clifton Jones
Mark Lortz
James Meredith
Gene Milford
William Owens
John M. Pasternak
Matthew R. Putnam
Peter Sciaino
Robert Sheldon
Bruce W. Tippette
Jorge L. Vargas
Chandler Wilson
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