This web site is dedicated to college and secondary school concert and wind bands. It contains information about the various instruments employed, as well as hints about band training (including technique and intonation), conducting, the physical laws the govern sound production, and anything else I think the young musicians who play in these bands might find helpful. Some sections (such as the one on interpretation) are more for band directors than players, of course, but overall I have tried to include something of interest to just about everyone.
There is also a large section devoted to the activities of the Brass Band Jenderal (BBJ), a Salvation Army band based in Medan, Indonesia. If you are interested in this Band, click here.
Some of the information on this website has been extracted from my book entitled The Band Director's Handbook: A guide for College and Secondary School Band Directors in Southeast Asia. The book also includes additional chapters on pedagogy and the varying characteristics of different wind band instruments that are not included in this website. It also has a chapter devoted to writing arrangements and transcriptions for wind band. To order a copy of my book, see the publication details below.
Here is a free march scored for full concert band. The following are the first 10 bars in condensed score format (written in concert pitch) to give you some idea of the music. The level of difficulty is about grade 4.
You can download the music here. There are two files: Peter's Conductor's scores
and various partsThis arrangement is by Vladimir Mustajbašić. Here is the first page of the conductor's score.
As with all the music on this website, the arrangement is hereby released into the public domain. It may be freely copied and performed provided the music remains unchanged and the arranger is duly acknowledged. You can download the 
Albinoni's Adagio Conductor's Score here. The parts may be downloaded here.
This music has an interesting history. Although widely ascribed to Albinoni, an Italian composer of the Baroque period, it was actually written by his biographer around 1945 based on a few fragments he discovered. Remo Giazotto, a musicologist who was at that time writing a biography of the composer, reportedly reconstructed" the music based on the bass line and only six bars of original melody!
This is a work by Rossini, arranged and scored for wind band by Vladimir Mustajbašić. Here is a section of the first page of the conductor's score.
As with all the music on this website, the arrangement is hereby released into the public domain. It may be freely copied and performed provided the music remains unchanged and the arranger is duly acknowledged. You can download the La Regata conductor's score (846.66 kB) here. The main parts can be downloaded 
here (4.35 MB) here. The percussion, which I have placed in a different file to help reduce the size of the main one, can be downloaded here (253.66 kB). Finally, you can download additional parts, including parts for Alto horn and treble clef parts for trombone, euphonium and tuba here (1.14 MB).
This work is a quiet, reflective piece for concert band in the tradition of Romantic pianists such as Chopin and Field. The level of difficulty is about grade 4. It consists of three themes as set out below:
Theme One:
Theme Two:
Theme Three:
You can download the conductor's score Song without words (417.45 kB) here, and a complete set of Parts (774.44 kB) here. Please accept my apologies. I could not get the cue notes to print properly on all the PDF files, even at high resolution. However, I have found a time consuming (for me!) workaround that has made it possible to consolidate the missing cue notes into a single file. You can download the following file, print it out and then distribute the missing parts to band members to supplement the music they already have. Click here Missing cue notes (24.2 kB).
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