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Morse, Matthew Carl. The West Point Band's Wind Commissioning Project in Celebration
of the Bicentennial of the United States Military Academy. Doctor of Musical Arts
(Performance), May 2017, 193 pp., 8 tables, 30 musical examples, bibliography, 122 titles.
The United States Military Academy Band, also known as the West Point Band is the
oldest active band in the United States Army and the oldest unit at the United States Military
Academy, and is considered to be one of the finest military musical organizations in the world.
The band has also been instrumental in facilitating the creation of new works for wind band. As
the commissioning of new music has been essential to the expansion of the wind band's
repertoire, several major commissioning projects were undertaken in the mid-twentieth
century by various organizations, including the West Point Band, the Goldman Band in
conjunction with the League of Composers and later the American Bandmasters Association,
Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, the American Wind Symphony, and the College Band
Directors National Association. These commissioning projects and many others have
contributed hosts of new quality works to the repertoire of the wind band. The West Point
Band's 1952 commissioning project celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the United States
Military Academy was among the first of these mid-twentieth century commissioning projects
to seek out prominent composers of the day and have them write works for wind band. The
project contributed several seminal pieces to the wind band's repertoire, including Morton
Gould's Symphony for Band: West Point. In 1996, as tribute to both the Academy and to the
earlier commissioning project, the West Point Band sought to celebrate the Academy's 2002
bicentennial in a similar fashion by commissioning well-known composers to contribute
substantial wind works. These pieces would be premiered and recorded by the West Point Band
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Morse, Matthew C., 1967-. The West Point Band's Wind Commissioning Project in Celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States Military Academy, dissertation, May 2017; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984246/m1/2/?q=coaster: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .