WASBE Journal

WASBE produces the WASBE Journal annually. All members receive the Journal publications free of charge (the price for non-members is US$15.00).

Copies of past issues of the "Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles" may be purchased for US$15.00 each, or the complete set of 11 previous WASBE Journals can be purchased for US$150.00. Please send a cheque for this amount, made payable to WASBE, to:

Egil A. Gundersen
WASBE Treasurer
Ronningjordet 21
N-Skien, Norway
You may contact him by e-mail: egilag@online.no

Libraries interested in subscribing to the WASBE Journal may request a sample copy from the WASBE Executive Director:

Dr. Leon J. Bly
WASBE Executive Director
Graf-von-Galen-Str. 28
D-70565 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel: +49 / 711 / 715-7747
Fax: +49 / 711 / 715-7761
E-mail: WASBE@T-Online.de

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.

William L. Berz
Music Department, 100 Clifton Avenue
Rutgers, The Stae University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
USA
Email: wberz@rci.rutgers.edu
Telephone 1-732-932-8860
Fax 1-732-932-1517

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 an overview:

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

Volume 2 (1995)

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

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 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 5 (1998)

Articles "On the Role of Emotion in Music."

Volume 6 (1999)

Contains the Proceedings of the Ninth WASBE Conference.

Volume 7 (2000)

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

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 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 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 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)