Band Music - A Catalog (Hardcover)

In his preface, Christopher Cicconi writes: With the emergence of a vast new repertoire for the wind band over the past twenty years, there remains a serious lack of organization with regard to the cataloging and indexing of these compositions. Nearly all performance mediums, including but not limited to orchestra, opera, chorus, and chamber ensembles, possess up-to-date catalogs or texts that index all pertinent information about their respective repertoire. However, no such resource exists at present for the wind band and its music. The chief purpose of this study is to catalog and index all of the music literature written for wind band in the years 1995 through 2012. In Band Music, Cicconi fills this gap by presenting wind band conductors with a catalog. This survey provides new information and research that, to this date, only existed for orchestral, choral, and pops music. For each work listed, Band Music provides its date of origin, duration, exact instrumentation, and publisher.It also includes a number of appendices that classify the repertoire by composer, title, and duration and offers a detailed list of publishers, an account of numerous compositions for which information is not readily available, and a directory of composers for future consideration and inclusion.