NSBA Recommended Music List

Top 10 Recommended Selections

............... (“core” repertoire)...................

GRADE 1:

Broege	Train Heading West
Byrd/Fenske	La Volta
Daehn	Song for Friends
Duffy	March of the Nightcrawlers
Edmondson	Anasazi
Hillard/Elledge/Pearson	African Festival
Pearson	Ayre and Dance
Ryden	Jeanette, Isabella
Smith, R. W.	The Tempest
Visconti/DelBorgo	Space Echoes

GRADE 2:

Broege	Rhythm Machine
Curnow	Korean Folk Rhapsody
Erickson	Balladair
Grundman	Little Suite for Band
Grundman	Kentucky 1800
Holsinger	A Childhood Hymn
McBeth	Canto
McGinty	The Red Balloon
Susato/Margolis	The Battle Pavane
Ticheli	Portrait of a Clown

GRADE 3:

Carter	Overture for Winds
Daehn	As Summer Was Just Beginning
Erickson	Air for Band
Erickson	Toccata for Band
Holsinger	On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
McBeth	Chant and Jubilo
Stuart	Three Ayres from Gloucester
Ticheli	Sundance
Tschesnokoff/Houseknect	Salvation in Created
Vaughan Williams	Flourish for Wind Band

GRADE 4:

Arnold/Paynter	Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo
Chance	Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Dello Joio	Scenes from “The Louvre”
Grainger/Rogers	Irish Tune from County Derry
Hanson	Chorale and Alleluia
Holst/Matthews	First Suite in E-flat
Holst/Matthews	Second Suite in F
Persichetti	Pageant
Vaughan Williams	Folk Song Suite
Zdechlik	Chorale and Shaker Dance

GRADE 5:

Arnold/Paynter	Four Scottish Dances
Dello Joio	Variants on a Medieval Tune
Grantham	Southern Harmony
Jacob	William Byrd Suite
Milhaud	Suite Franciase
Persichetti	Symphony No. 6
Reed, H. O.	La Fiesta Mexicana
Schuman	Chester
Schuman	George Washington Bridge
Ticheli	Blue Shades

GRADE 6:

Colgrass	Winds of Nagual
Dahl	Sinfionetta
Grainger/Fennell	Lincolnshire Posy
Hindemith	Symphony in B-flat
Holst	Hammersmith
Husa	Music for Prague 1968
Maslanka	A Child’s Garden of Dreams
Schoenberg	Theme and Variations op. 43a
Schwantner	and the mountains rising nowhere
Stravinsky	Symphonies of Wind Instruments