This is an inclusive list of the accepted standard works written specifically for concert band or wind ensemble.
Cornerstone works
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble. ;Samuel Barber ;Robert Russell Bennett ;Hector Berlioz ;Arthur Bird ;John Barnes Chance ;Aaron Copland ;Ingolf Dahl ;Antonín Dvořák ;Henry Fillmore ;Morton Gould ;Percy Grainger ;Howard Hanson ;Paul Hindemith ;Gustav Holst ;Karel Husa ;Gordon Jacob ;David Maslanka ;Peter Mennin ;Darius Milhaud ;:it:Camillo De Nardis|Camillo de Nardis ;Ron Nelson ;W. Francis McBeth ;Vincent Persichetti ;Walter Piston ;Sergei Prokofiev ;Alfred Reed ;H. Owen Reed ;Gioachino Rossini ;Camille Saint-Saëns ;Arnold Schoenberg ;William Schuman ;Joseph Schwantner ;John P. Sousa ;Richard Strauss ;Igor Stravinsky ;Clifton Williams ;Ralph Vaughan Williams
Respected works
These pieces may not necessarily be quite as universally acknowledged as the above list, but occupy an extremely important place in the repertoire nonetheless. Like the previous works, they have proven themselves through many performances, most over a span of decades. ;David Amram ;James Barnes ;C.L. Barnhouse ;Leslie Bassett ;David Bedford ;Frank Bencriscutto ;Richard Rodney Bennett ;Warren Benson ;Jerry Bilik ;Eugene Bozza ;Houston Bright ;Howard Cable ;Alfredo Casella ;Michael Colgrass ;John Corigliano ;Paul Creston ;Elliot Del Borgo ;Norman Dello Joio ;Thomas C. Duffy ;Frank Erickson ;Henry Fillmore ;Luboš Fišer ;Julius Fučík ;Vittorio Giannini ;David Gillingham ;Edwin Franko Goldman ;Morton Gould ;Percy Grainger ;Samuel Hazo ;:de:Clare Grundman|Clare Grundman ;Kenneth Hesketh ;Frigyes Hidas ;David Holsinger ;Alan Hovhaness ;Karel Husa ;Gordon Jacob ;Robert Jager ;Tristan Keuris ;:nl:Boris Kosjevnikov|Boris Kozhevnikov ;Robert Kurka ;Elizabeth Maconchy ;Martin Mailman ;W. Francis McBeth ;Johan de Meij ;Olivier Messiaen ;Vaclav Nelhybel ;Ron Nelson ;Roger Nixon ;Vincent Persichetti ;Alfred Reed ;Anton Reicha ;Ottorino Respighi ;Florent Schmitt ;Gunther Schuller ;Joseph Schwantner ;Robert Sheldon ;John P. Sousa ;Claude T. Smith ;Philip Sparke ;Eric Stokes ;Richard Strauss ;Virgil Thomson ;Fisher Tull ;Clifton Williams ;Kurt Weill ;Dana Wilson ;Haydn Wood ;Guy Woolfenden ;Ralph Vaughan Williams ;:nl:John Zdechlik|John Zdechlik
Recent works
The following works are rapidly gaining acceptance as standard repertoire. Most have been composed within the last 30 years. ;Richard Rodney Bennett ;Andrew Boysen Jr. ;Steven Bryant ;Mark Camphouse ;:es:%C3%93scar Navarro|Óscar Navarro ;Michael Colgrass ;Greg Danner ;Michael Daugherty ;Eric Ewazen ;:nl:Aldo Rafael Forte|Aldo Rafael Forte ;Rossano Galante ;Michael Gandolfi ;David Gillingham ;Julie Giroux ;Peter Graham ;:es:Ferrer Ferran|Ferrer Ferran ;Donald Grantham ;Edward Gregson ;Samuel Hazo ;John Harbison ;Evan Hause ;Kenneth Hesketh ;Yasuhide Ito ;Brant Karrick ;Scott Lindroth ;James MacMillan ;David Maslanka ;Nicholas Maw ;John Mackey ;Scott McAllister ;Cindy McTee ;:es:Andr%C3%A9s Valero Castells|Andres Valero ;Lior Navok ;Ron Nelson ;Carter Pann ;:nl:Marco Pütz|Marco Pütz ;Steven Reineke ;Jan Van der Roost ;:nl:Rolf Rudin|Rolf Rudin ;Joseph Schwantner ;Robert Sheldon ;Robert W. Smith ;Philip Sparke ;Jack Stamp ;Alfred R. Stevenson ;Steven Stucky ;Frank Ticheli ;Michael Tippett ;Jess Langston Turner ;Dan Welcher ;Eric Whitacre ;Dana Wilson ;Charles Rochester Young
Transcriptions
There are thousands of transcriptions of pieces from other media available for the concert band; however, some transcriptions are performed so often that they can be said to have achieved a place of their own in the concert band repertoire. ;John Adams ;Isaac Albéniz ;Malcolm Arnold ;Johann Sebastian Bach ;Samuel Barber ;Hector Berlioz ;Leonard Bernstein ;Johannes Brahms ;Aaron Copland ;Claude Debussy ;Antonín Dvořák ;George Gershwin ;Alberto Ginastera ;Percy Grainger ;Ferde Grofé ;Paul Hindemith ;Gustav Holst ;Charles Ives ;Edward MacDowell ;Felix Mendelssohn ;Modest Mussorgsky ;Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ;Ottorino Respighi ;Gioacchino Rossini ;William Schuman ;Dmitri Shostakovich ;Jean Sibelius ;Igor Stravinsky ;Arthur Sullivan/Charles Mackerras ;Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ;Richard Wagner ;William Walton ;Carl Maria von Weber ;Giuseppe Verdi
Recordings of concert band literature
The , begun in 1989 by Eugene Corporon while he was director of bands at the , has helped provide recordings of many of the most important and more recent pieces in the wind band literature. The recording project continues today, having followed Corporon to the University of North Texas. The project continues to this day under the label GIA. Corporon's recordings exist in the form of the Teaching Music Through Performance In Band Series, Windworks Series and Composer's Collections. Still more recordings have been released by The Keystone Winds, conducted by Jack Stamp. The Keystone Winds consists of faculty, alumni and students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Concordia University ChicagoWind Symphony, under Dr. Richard Fischer, has just released its twelfth recording of sacred wind music. Since the series began in 1991, the ensemble has made many premiere recordings of now widely known and played wind literature.
