Transcriptions
There are thousands of transcriptions of pieces from other media (mostly orchestra) available for the concert band; however, some transcriptions are performed so often that they can be said to have achieved a place of their own in the concert band repertoire.
- John Adams
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine (trans. Lawrence Odom)
- Isaac Albéniz
- Iberia, Book 1: III. Fête-dieu à Seville (trans. Lucien Cailliet)
- Malcolm Arnold
- Four Scottish Dances (trans. John Paynter)
- Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo (trans. John Paynter)
- Tam o' Shanter Overture (trans. John Paynter)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Fantasia in G Major (trans. Goldman / Leist)
- Fugue a la Gigue (trans. Gustav Holst)
- Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major (trans. John Paynter)
- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (trans. Erik W. G. Leidzén or Donald Hunsberger)
- Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (trans. Nicholas Falcone or Donald Hunsberger)
- The Art of Fugue (trans. Kenneth Amis)
- Samuel Barber
- First Symphony (trans. Guy Duker)
- Hector Berlioz
- Le corsaire, Op. 21: Overture (trans. Gunther Schuller)
- Leonard Bernstein
- Overture to "Candide" (trans. Walter Beeler or Clare Grundman)
- Slava! A Political Overture (trans. Clare Grundman)
- Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" (trans. Paul Lavender)
- Johannes Brahms
- Academic Festival Overture (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- Haydn Variations (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- Aaron Copland
- Down a Country Lane (trans. Merlin Patterson)
- El Salón México (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- Lincoln Portrait (trans. Walter Beeler)
- An Outdoor Overture (trans. Aaron Copland)
- Preamble for a Solemn Occasion (trans. Aaron Copland)
- Claude Debussy
- Préludes, Book 1: X. La cathédrale engloutie (trans. Merlin Patterson)
- Antonín Dvořák
- Carnival Overture, Op. 92 (trans. Leigh Steiger)
- Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World": IV. Finale (trans. Mark Hindsley, Erik W. G. Leidzén or Weston Nicholi)
- George Gershwin
- Cuban Overture (trans. Dwayne S. Milburn)
- Prelude No. 2 in C Sharp Minor (trans. John Krance)
- Rhapsody in Blue (trans. Ferde Grofé, Donald Hunsberger or Tohru Takahashi)
- Alberto Ginastera
- Estancia Suite, Op. 8a (trans. Donald Patterson)
- Percy Grainger
- The Warriors (trans. Frank Pappajohn)
- Ferde Grofé
- Mississippi Suite, "A Journey in Tones" (trans. Don Chown)
- Paul Hindemith
- Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (trans. Keith Wilson)
- Gustav Holst
- A Moorside Suite (trans. Gordon Jacob or Denis Wright)
- Capriccio (trans. John Boyd)
- The Planets (trans. George Smith probably with the collaboration of the composer)
|
- Charles Ives
- Old Home Days (trans. Jonathan Elkus)
- Country Band March (trans. James Sinclair)
- Fugue in C Minor, from String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army": I: Chorale (trans. James Sinclair)
- Variations on "America" (trans. William Schuman / William Rhoads)
- Edward MacDowell
- Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 (trans. Frank Winterbottom)
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Fingal's Cave Overture (trans. Julius Seredy or Frank Winterbottom)
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Night on Bald Mountain (trans. William Schaefer or Mark Hindsley)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (trans. Mark Hindsley, Erik W. G. Leidzén or Tohru Takahashi)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Procession of the Nobles from "Mlada" (trans. Erik W. G. Leidzén)
- Scheherazade (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- Ottorino Respighi
- The Pines of Rome (trans. Guy Duker or Yoshihiro Kimura)
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Italian in Algiers Overture (trans. Lucien Cailliet)
- William Tell Overture (trans. Erik W. G. Leidzén)
- Tancredi Overture (trans. Leonard Falcone)
- William Schuman
- New England Triptych (1956)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Festive Overture (trans. Donald Hunsberger)
- October (trans. Preston Mitchell)
- Folk Dances (trans. H. Robert Reynolds)
- Galop from "Moscow, Cheryomushki" (trans. Donald Hunsberger)
- Jean Sibelius
- Finlandia (trans. Lucien Cailliet)
- Igor Stravinsky
- The Firebird Suite (trans. Guy Duker, Thomas Knox, or Lawrence Odom)
- Fireworks (trans. Mark Rogers)
- Arthur Sullivan/Charles Mackerras
- Pineapple Poll (trans. William J. Duthoit)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1812 Overture (trans. Conway Brown, Yoshihiro Kimura, Mayhew Lake or Mark Williams)
- Suite No. 3 in G Major (trans. Frank Winterbottom)
- Richard Wagner
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin" (trans. Lucien Cailliet)
- Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin" (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- "Tannhauser" Overture (trans. Vincent Frank Safranek)
- William Walton
- Crown Imperial (trans. William J. Duthoit)
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Invitation to the Dance
- Oberon Overture (trans. Mark Hindsley)
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Prelude to Act 1, La Traviata (trans. Leonard Falcone)
|