About the AMIS Festival Repertoire List

Repertoire is an ongoing component of all musical groups. Many teachers and guest conductors have asked us for a listing of those compositions which have been performed in the International Honor Festivals. At last we are able to share this information with you.

Since 1975 when the first International Honor Band Festival was held at The American School in London, many selections have been performed at the various festivals. This is a compilation of selections performed from that time to the present day, with the exception of the Solo and Ensemble Festivals.

Various names have been used for the festivals during over 30 years. For the purpose of this repertoire list we have standardized the titles of the festivals, even if a festival went by a slightly different name during that year.

1. For the International Honor Band and Choir Festival, we have used the standard name “Honor Band and Choir” for groups we have simply used “Honor Band” or “Honor Choir.” Finales are listed as “Honor Band and Choir.” Since 2004 there have been occasions when we had both a “Mixed Choir” and a “Women’s Choir.” All groups called simply “Honor Choir” have been SATB choirs.
2. Middle School Honor Choirs come in a number of varieties. All have been put into the Middle School Honor Choir category. Groups designations are Boys MSHC, Mixed MSHC and Girls MSHC. Until 2003 the Boys MSHC used SA and SSA material. Since that time material for mixed voices has been used to allow both unchanged and treble voices to participate. Until 2003 all Mixed MSHC used strictly treble material. Now Mixed MSHC uses SAB material.
3. All Middle School Honor Bands have the group designation of MSHB except for the years when there are festivals in both Europe and Asia when we have designated either European MSHB or Asian MSHB.
4. International Honor Orchestra now has Senior Honor Orchestra and Junior Honor Orchestra. We have categorized all the early groups as “Senior Orchestra” since the original groups were high school level ensembles.
5. For the International Honor Jazz Bands it was not clear from the programs which combos performed which tunes. Therefore the group listed is simply “Combo” and the names of all the combo leaders are listed under the conductor category.
6. Under Location we have listed the hosting school for that festival even though some final performances were held in churches and concert halls.
7. We acknowledge the huge amount of work Elizabeth Poland put into the Honor Orchestra section of this repertoire list and thank her for making this listing possible. Jim Hutchinson compiled the remainder of the original database from information in the program file. We thank him for this long project. Our thanks go to Georgia Bassett for the final editing of the file.

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About the files:

Three versions of the file have been posted - none of these are directly readable on the Internet.

Microsoft Excel Workbook

This is an Excel workbook of the information. You must have a program capable of reading Microsoft Excel 2004 files to use this file. No macros have been created.

FileMaker Pro 7 File

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Tab-delimited Text File

This is the raw data of the AMIS Festival Repertoire List. Between the items of data a "tab" character has been inserted, with a"return" character marking the end of the data. This file could be opened in either of the above mentioned programs, Microsoft Word, or almost any data base or spreadsheet or word processing program.

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