If you’re looking for wind band repertoire, this website is a good start. Should you wish to look further (and you should!), there are many other resources available to you.
YOUTUBE:
Like listening to music? Here are some YouTube playlists that cover parts of the repertoire:
Female Wind Band Composers:
Beautiful, deeply touching works for wind band:
BAND RESOURCES:
The Wind Repertory Project – like Wikipedia for wind band
The Wind Band Symphony Archive – a catalog of symphonies written for wind band
Prized Composers – a list of wind band works by composers who have won major composition prizes
Diverse Composers of Wind Band Music – a repository of music by female and minority composers. Associated with the larger Composer Diversity Project.
Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music – full access by annual subscription. Attempts to catalog every band piece (original and transcribed) ever written
Notendatenbank – database of scores and recordings, featuring over 100,000 wind band works
Some COMPOSERS who post recordings and scores:
Kenneth Amis – Karen Amrhein – Kimberly Archer – Brian Balmages – Andrew Boss – BJ Brooks – Steven Bryant – James M. David – Elliot Del Borgo – Thierry Deleruyelle – Don Freund – Keith Gates – Julie Giroux – Donald Grantham – Bertold Hummel – Christiaan Janssen – Jennifer Jolley – Bernhard Thomas Klein – Chris Lamb – John Mackey – Michael Markowski – David Maslanka – J. Scott McKenzie – Johan de Meij – Oskar Morawetz – Craig Thomas Naylor – Cait Nishimura – Sean Osborn – Nicole Piunno – Arne Running – David Jason Snow – James Stephenson – Benjamin Taylor – Christopher Tucker – Andrés Valero-Castells – Kevin Walczyk
Some PUBLISHERS and DISTRIBUTORS who post recordings and scores:
All Sheetmusic – Alfred Music – Allemanda – Alliance Publications – Andel Music – Art of Sound Music – Band Music Shop – Bandworks – Blue Dot Collective – Bravo Music – Brolga – Bronsheim Music – BRS Music – C. Alan Publications – C.L. Barnhouse Company – Editio Musica Budapest – Edition Robert Martin – Editions Bim – Eighth Note Music – FJH Music Company Inc – G&M Brand – Golden River Music – Hafabra Music – Hafner Musikverlag – Hal Leonard Online – Hebu – J. W. Pepper & Son – Kjos – Maecenas Music – Maestro & Fox Music – Manhattan Beach Music – Maxime’s Music – Midwest Sheet Music – Molenaar Edition – Murphy Music Press – Musica Propria – R. Smith & Company – Editions Marc Reift – Rundel Music – Scherbacher – Schorer Music Publishing – Southern Music – Tierolff – Top Score Diffusion – Trio Musik Edition – TRN – Wicky Music – Wind Music Sales
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SOCIETIES that feature wind band music (bold feature scores and/or recordings, italic also publish/distribute)
American Composers Alliance – Asociación Galega de Compositores – Australian Music Centre – Budapest Music Center – College Band Directors National Association (USA) – Canadian Music Centre | Centre de Musique Canadienne – Contemporary Music Centre Ireland – Society of Slovene Composers – Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music – Luxembourg Music Publishers – Music Austria – Music Finland – Music Information Centre Lithuania – Czech Music Information Centre – Swiss Musinfo – New Music USA Online Library – NB Noter: Contemporary Norwegian Sheet Music – British Music Collection – SOUNZ (Centre for New Zealand Music) – Svensk Musik – Swedish Musical Heritage – Wisconsin Alliance for Composers – World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
OTHER BAND BLOGS:
University of Maryland Wind Orchestra
FREE SHEET MUSIC:
Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP) – free public domain music from every (legal) era
Band Music PDF Library – like the IMSLP for band music
The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa from the President’s Own United States Marine Band
What other resources do you use? Leave a comment and I may add your favorites to my list.