Donald Hunsberger Wind Library

Ruth Gipps was one of the most fascinating women in the music world in England during the 20th century. She was a true pioneer as a composer and performer -- she founded and conducted the Portia Wind...

These two 'railroad marches' (E7A and RS-2) are excellent examples of witty, contemporary compositional techniques, utilizing our most indigenous wind band forms - the extended concert march in E7A an...

Harvey and Allen Dodworth, Thomas Eaton, Patrick S. Gilmore, David L. Downing, Thomas Coates, and especially Claudio S. Grafulla. The current compilation is drawn from the band books of the Third Regi...

This cycle is a setting of three contrasting poems by Latin-American poets Leopoldo Lugones, Rube én Dari ío and Jose é Marti í. 'Olas Grises' uses evocative rain and sea imagery to meditate on the na...

Commissioned by a consortium of outstanding collegiate wind ensembles, Folgore's Months features a soprano voice soloist in a contemporary setting of four movements musically depicting 'February,' 'Au...

Commissioned by a consortium of outstanding collegiate wind ensembles, Folgore's Months features a soprano voice soloist in a contemporary setting of four movements musically depicting 'February,' 'Au...

The Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble was composed for pianist Barry Snyder and the Eastman Wind Ensemble as a commissioned work celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music. Bar...

The wind accompaniment to George Gershwin's popular piano solo, 'Rhapsody in Blue,' is based upon the 1924 and 1926 Grofe editions for jazz band and theatre orchestra. Donald Hunsberger has scored thi...

Originally titled 'Rhapsody in Rivets' and inspired by the composer's emotional reaction to his native New York City, the work was premiered by the Boston Symphony with Gershwin as piano soloist in 19...

Commissioned by a consortium of outstanding collegiate wind ensembles, Folgore's Months features a soprano voice soloist in a contemporary setting of four movements musically depicting 'February,' 'Au...

This work was commissioned in honor of the 75th birthday of the wonderful conductor Frank Battisti. It is based entirely on the musical pitches extracted from his name (FFrAAnk BABAttisti), forming th...

This work was commissioned in honor of the 75th birthday of the wonderful conductor Frank Battisti. It is based entirely on the musical pitches extracted from his name (FFrAAnk BABAttisti), forming th...

This cycle is a setting of three contrasting poems by Latin-American poets Leopoldo Lugones, Ruben Dario and Jose Martin. 'Olas Grises' uses evocative rain and sea imagery to meditate on the nature of...

This cycle is a setting of three contrasting poems by Latin-American poets Leopoldo Lugones, Rube?n Dari?o and Jose? Marti?. Olas Grises' uses evocative rain and sea imagery to meditate on the nature...

The current edition of Gabrieli's Aria Della Battaglia was transcribed for the modern orchestra wind section from the Canto Dialoghi Musicali de Diversi Eccelentissimi Autori: Venice 1590. The work is...

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (DH9802) and Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 (DH9701).

Score only. This work, originally written for organ, was the initial offering in the DHWL. The organ and the contemporary wind band share numerous timbre and sound projection properties as well as sha...

David Liptak chose a route to writing this composition that has been most widely recognized and acclaimed by Aaron Copland in his various settings of Americana such as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Bi...

This is a setting for concert band accompaniment for George Gershwin's famed Rhapsody in Blue arranged by Dr. Thomas Verrier. It retains all the period sounds of the original while providing a more fu...

Scatterday has compiled a group of Renaissance works and scored the individual compositions with flexible scoring opportunities for wind ensemble so that any combination of instruments desired can be...

Scatterday has compiled a group of Renaissance works and scored the individual compositions with flexible scoring opportunities for wind ensemble so that any combination of instruments desired can be...

A unique work that introduces several contemporary compositional techniques including aleatoric and improvisatory material, jazz-inflected writing and an involved chromatic melodic sense, all within h...

Harrison's Dream is a musical depiction of the forty-year effort by John Harrison during the first half of the 18th century to develop a chronometer capable of providing exact time on the high seas. H...

Born in Germany, Hermann Bellstedt immigrated to America in 1867, where his family settled in Cincinnati. A prodigy on the cornet, he played with Patrick Gilmore as cornet soloist and assistant to the...