The wind band and its repertoire : two decades of research as published in the College Band Directors National Association journal

For slightly over two decades, the College Band Directors National Association published the CBDNA Journal, a research outlet for all types of subjects of interest to the membership. Following cessation of activities in 2002, Michael Votta, Jr., the Journal's most recent editor, assembled representative articles on composers and their works, historical research and composition analysis investigations, and produced this fine collection of writings. As a source of well-constructed research by some of the country's leading musicians, it fills a much needed place in everyone's library.

The composers speak. An address to the CBDNA National Conference, February 13, 1981, Ann Arbor, Michigan / Gunther Schuller -- An address to the Third International Conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, July 23, 1987, Boston University : "Aesthetic criteria for selecting an international repertoire" / Warren Benson -- The leaves are falling : a discussion with Warren Benson / Donald Hunsberger -- An interview with Leslie Bassett / Larry Rachleff -- Robert Rodriquez's The seven deadly sins : an interview with rehearsal commentary / Gary W. Hill -- The musical and philosophical thoughts of an American composer : conversations with David Maslanka on A child's garden of dreams / Thomas Martin Wubbernhorst.

The Baroque and Classical era : Harmoniemusik and its repertoire. A baroque wind band library in Germany / David Whitwell -- The rediscovery of a wind band arrangement of Die Entführung aus dem serail attributed to Mozart / Daniel N. Leeson.

Wind music in the romantic and post-romantic eras. The wind music of Richard Strauss : a catalog / Mary Natvig -- Symphonic elements in Richard Strauss's Symphony for winds (1945) / Michael Votta, Jr. -- Richard Strauss and the German military band tradition / Mary Natvig -- Anton Bruckner and the Apollo march for band / Paul Hawkshaw.

20th-century wind repertoire. The secret program of Berg's Kammerkonzert : who's life is it, anyway? / Michael Votta, Jr. -- Gustav Holst : the Hammersmith sketches / Jon C. Mitchell -- The premieres of Hammersmith / Jon C. Mitchell -- Karel Husa's contributions to the wind band / Donald McLaurin -- Karel Husa's Smetana fanfare : an analysis and discussion of performance issues / Mark Davis Scatterday -- Musings for Prague 1990 : reflections on February 13, 1990 / Thomas C. Duffy -- Wind music and the 1926 Donaueschingen Music Festival / John C. Carmichael -- The wind ensemble and band compositions of Darius Milhaud / Stephen Miller.

American music. A composer at the threshold of a career of real distinction : Robert Kurka and The good soldier Schweik / Michael Burch-Pesses -- The wind music of Alle Wilder : a commentary and catalogue / Thomas G. Everett -- The sesquicentennial celebration wind band commissions of the United States Militray Academy at West Point (1952) / Larry D. Harper -- Charles Cushing's Angel camp / Larry D. Harper.

Music of the European avant-garde. Karlheinz Stockhausen's Samstag aus Licht : a contemporary report / Glenn Watkins -- The aesthetics of Varèse / John David Anderson.

New repertoires. Concert band music by African-American composers / Myron D. Moss -- Music for chorus and winds : an historical overview / Keith Kinder.

Historical activities of bands in America. Herbert L. Clarke and the Long Beacn Municipal Band (1923-1943) / James T. Madeja -- Bands at the 1904 World's Fair / Terry Austin -- Bowen R. Church and the American band : a new era / Francis Marciniak -- The Paul E. Bierley record collection featuring John Philip Sousa / Ellen S. Johnson -- A comprendium of wind band literature analyses from selected periodicals and university research / Mark Fonder.

Appendix I. Contents of CBDNA journals, 1984-present.