Research Guides: Band Collections in Special Collections in Performing Arts: Books & Journals

Band-Related Periodicals

All recent issues of these journals are located in the Current Periodicals section of the Performing Arts Library and are kept in alphabetical order by title.

Back issues are bound and stored in the library stacks by call number.

Journal of Band Research
Lowens Room - ML1 .J68
Circus Fanfare
Lowens Room - ML1354 .C57

Books on Band History

Six marches by John Philip Sousa ; edited by Patrick Warfield
Call Number: M2.3 .U6 vol.69

ISBN: 0895796759

Essays on the composer and his marches (p. xiii-lxi); "Apparatus": essays on the sources, and critical commentary by Patrick Warfield (p. 95-133). Dr. Warfield is a UMD Faculty member.
A history of the American Bandmasters Association by Alan L. Davis
Call Number: ML27.U5 A36 1987

Originally presented as the author’s thesis (D.M.A.--Arizona State University, 1987)
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music by by William H. Rehrig ; edited by Paul E. Bierley
Call Number: ML128.B23 R44 1991

ISBN: 0918048087
The wind ensemble and its repertoire : essays on the 40th anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble by edited by Frank J. Cipolla & Donald R. Hunsberger
Call Number: ML1300 .W58 1994

ISBN: 1878822462
The college and university band : an anthology of papers from the conferences of the College Band Directors National Association, 1941-1975 by compiled by David Whitwell, Acton Ostling
Call Number: ML1311 .C64
The American wind band : a cultural history by Richard K. Hansen
Call Number: ML1311 .H28 2005

ISBN: 1579994679
Merle Evans: Maestro of the Circus by Gene Plowden
Call Number: ML422.E93 P6

ISBN: 0912458046

Publication Date: 1971-01-01
The winds of change : the evolution of the contemporary American wind band/ensemble and its conductor by Frank L. Battisti
Call Number: ML1311.5 .B38 2002

ISBN: 9780634045226

ABA Authors

American wind and percussion music by edited by Raoul F. Camus
Call Number: M1495 .T47 1989 vol.12
Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation : a history by compiled by Victor W. Zajec
Call Number: ML76.E49 E49 1998
My bands and I : a love story, 45 years of concert and marching band history, Indiana, Cleveland Heights, Illinois, Air Force, Illinois by my attentive and perpetuative press by excerpted and compiled by Mark Hindsley
Call Number: ML422 .H56 1984
Band director’s survival guide : planning and conducting the successful school band program by Eldon A. Janzen
Call Number: MT733 .J36 1985

ISBN: 0130569127

Periodicals for Instrumentalists

The Clarinet
Flute Talk
The Instrumentalist
ITA Journal
International Trombone Association
ITG journal
International Trumpet Guild
Percussive notes
Saxophone Journal