WASBE Journal

WASBE produces the WASBE Journal annually. All members receive the Journal publications free of charge.

Copies of past issues of the "Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles" may be purchased at the following rates:

• 1-4 Journals = USD $18 per issue
• 5-9 Journals = USD $16 per issue
• 10 or more = USD $14 per issue
• Complete set of 15 issues = USD $180 USD

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Editor William L. Berz is Professor of Music at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (USA). He is the conductor of the Rutgers Wind Ensemble and the Rutgers Symphonic Band.

Articles may be submitted in any of WASBE's official languages, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish and reviewed by the editor and members of WASBE Board. If accepted, articles will be printed in the original language with an English summary.



Journal Contents

WASBE has produced its scholarly Journal since 1994. The Journal contains articles on a vast numbers of subjects, including performance practices, repertoire, conducting, wind instrument and band pedagogy, band history and sociology, and composition analysis. Here is a listing of the WASBE Journals published to date, starting with the most recent:

Volume 14 (2007)

Accepted Through Peer Review

• Wind Writing in the Chamber Works of Heitor Villa-Lobos (Shawn Smith)
• Impetus for Innovation: Causality and Percy Grainger (Kenneth Thompson)

Accepted Through Editorial Review

• The Case for Mr. Ives (Stephen Budiansky)
• The Symphonic Band Repertoire of Aaron Copland: An Overview of Original Works and Arrangements for Band (Eddie Briskey)
• Aaron Copland’s Use of the Saxophone in Wind Band Repertoire (Christopher Brellochs)
• The Red Pony and the Grande ligne: Thematic Recurrence and Continuity in Aaron Copland’s Film Score, Film Suite for Orchestra, and Film Suite for Band (William McGinney)
• Meaning in Music: Expressive Potential and Physical Gesture in Works for Wind Orchestra (Eric L. Hinton)
• An Interview with Jennifer Higdon (Marian Stewart)

Volume 13 (2006)

Accepted Through Peer Review

• An Introduction to Finnish Music for Wind Band (Daniel Gordon and Kari Laitinen)
• A Chronicle of the Pre-World War II Cavalry Bands of the U.S. National Guard with Recollections of Those Who Rode (Bruce Gleason)

Accepted Through Editorial Review

• The Wind Band Ensemble in Singapore: Presence and Practice (Eugene Dairianathan)
• An Analysis of Moncho’s … de Tango (Glenn R. Garrido)
• Gustav Holst’s Songs of the West (John A. Darling)
• Composer and Conductor: Michael Colgrass and Gary Green Reflect Upon the Birth of Urban Requiem (Daniel A. Belongia)
• An Annotated Bibliography of Materials Written about H. Owen Reed (William Berz)
• Moving Music: Incorporating Aspects of Classical Ballet into the Training of Expressive Conductors (Alix Miller)

Volume 12 (2005)

• Gender Diversity: Exploring the Practice of Mentoring (Denise Grant)
• The Quality of Repertoire in School Music Programs: Literature Review, Analysis, and Discussion (Stephen Budiansky and Timothy W. Foley)
• Folk Songs in Darius Milhaud's Suite Française for Band and Orchestra (Robert J. Garofalo)
• Interpreting Frank Ticheli's Symphony No. 2 (John A. Darling)
• William Kraft’s Dialogues and Entertainments: Performance Considerations (Cynthia Johnston Turner)
• Roger Nixon and the California Connection: Fiesta del Pacifico to Monterey Holidays (Anthony P. Mazzaferro)
• Western Travels: Two Recent Works by Roger Nixon (William Berz)
• A Credo on Music’s Nature and Origins (Lawrence Dale Harper)
• An Exploratory Study on Band Music by Swedish Composers (Mark A. Stickney)
• Asian Influences in Canadian Wind Band Music (Keith Kinder)

Volume 11 (2004)

• An Analysis of Dance Sequence by Marco Pütz (Marc Crompton)
• An Analysis of Atehortua's Music for Winds and Percussion, Opus 152 (Glenn R. Garrido)
• Whitacre Transcribes Whitacre: A Closer Look at Sleep and Cloudburst (John A. Darling)
• Revisiting William Kraft's Dialogues an Entertainments: An Interpretative Analysis (Cynthia Johnston Turner)
• Another "Lord of the Rings": Two Works by H. Owen Reed (William Berz)
• British Wind Music 1981–2004 (Timothy Reynish)
• Comparing Recordings of Schuman's George Washington Bridge (Anthony Reimer)
• Conducting the High School Honor Band: Perceptions, Challenges, and Repertoire (Mark U. Reimer)
• The International Music Camp: Summer Arts Education (Joe Alme)

Volume 10 (2003)

• Resuscitating Art Music (John Steinmetz)
• The Future of the Wind Band Field: Promise or Peril? (Barry W. Hill)
• The Wind Band Concert: A Bleak Future? A Qualitative Study (Cynthia Johnston Turner)
• Winds of the North II: Canadian Wind Band Works on Folk Music Themes (Keith Kinder)
• Approaching Jazz-Influenced Wind Music (Catherine Parsonage)
• Tree Early Works for Band by H. Owen Reed (William Berz)
• Charles Ives's Country Band March: Its Appearance in Three… (Bradley P. Ethington)
• An Interpretive Analysis of Eric Whitacre's October (John A. Darling)
• Gand Ledge Composition Commissioning Project (Michael Kaufmann)
• Symphonies for Band: An Exploratory List (Kenneth Thompson)
• Harry Begian – Conductor: A Short Biography (Jon P. Nichols)

Volume 9 (2002)

• Interpreting An American Song by Alan Fletcher (Mark Emerson Hopkins)
• Karel Husa's Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble: An Analysis (John A. Duff) [Note: A correction appears in Volume 10]
• "Winds of the North": Canadian Wind Band Repertoire—A Representative View (Keith Kinder)
• Irish Wind Band Repertoire: A Brief Analysis (Fergus O'Carroll)
• Spanish Music for Windband (Frank De Vuyst)
• The University of Missouri-Rolla Bands 75th Anniversary Compositions (Donald Miller)
• The Art Of Scoring (Adam Gorb)
• In Pursuit of Quality Literature: An Analysis of the Wind Music of Frank Ticheli (John A. Darling)
• Wind Ensemble Repertoire by James Syler (Gregg Gausline)
• Composer to Composer: An Interview with H. Owen Reed (James Syler)
• An Interview with Eric Whitacre (William L. Berz)
• An Interview with Eric Ewazen (John T. Madden)
• An Interview with Eugene Migliaro Corporon (William L. Berz)
• Compositions Premiered At WASBE Conferences (Dennis L. Johnson)

Volume 8 (2001)

Articles on the theme "The Quest for Good Music." (This is also the theme for Volume 7.) Of special interest in Volume 8 is the material from the "Wind Music Across the Century" symposium, in honour of Frank Battisti.

Volume 7 (2000)

Articles on the theme "The Quest for Good Music." (This is also the theme for Volume 8.)

Volume 6 (1999)

Contains the Proceedings of the Ninth WASBE Conference.

Volume 5 (1998)

Articles "On the Role of Emotion in Music."

Volume 4 (1997)

• Original Band Compositions vs. Transcriptions: A European View
• Performing The Stars and Stripes Forever
• A Progressive Repertoire: The English Folk Song Genre
• An Acoustical Basis for Effective Band Training
• An American Original: The Published San Quentin Wind Band Works of Henry Dixon Cowell
• Teaching Non-Traditional Band Students in the Fairfax County Public Schools
• " Zigeuner" in Titeln gedruckter Notenausgaben für Blasorchester

Volume 3 (1996)

• German Military Musicians in Japan During the Early Meiji Era
• The American Band Contest Movement 1875-1940
• Desconocido y Famoso a la Vez: Juventino Rosas
• Military Band Music at the Festival of Empire 1911
• Nineteenth Century Publishing Houses
• Military Music in the Sultanate of Oman
• Zum Repertoire der Fürstlich Lippischen Bläserensembles

Volume 2 (1995)

Articles on "Franz Liszt's Music for Voices and Winds."

Volume 1 (1994)

• The Evolution of Wind Music in Germany
• Bands and the Visit of the Japanese Embassy
• Wind Instruments and Wind Sonorities in the Music of Zoltán Kodály
• The Role of Sequential Patterns in Structuring the Rehearsal
• Band Journals: A Bibliography

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