Past Test Pieces

2023 Test Pieces

All competing bands will be required to play the designated test piece for their grade. The pieces have been chosen carefully to reflect an appropriate National standard.

2023 Brass Band

Grade	Piece	Composer	Publisher
Open A Grade	Metropolis 1927	Peter Graham	Gramercy
Open B Grade	Rhapsody on St. Francis	Andrew Wainwright	SA Connects
Open C Grade	Ravenhill Suite	Dorothy Gates	SA Triumphonic
Open D Grade	Vengeance	Jared McCunnie	Self-Published
Junior Grade	Own Choice Test Piece

2023 Open Concert Band

Please note concert band test pieces are shorter in 2023 in line with the changes made in 2022.

Bands will be required to play a slow work, a march from the NBCA Prescribed March List or approved by the WABA Music Board and an own choice program which may include several shorter works, or one longer work.

Grade	Piece	Composer	Publisher
Open A Grade	Me Disagrees	Catherine Likhuta	Murphy
Open B Grade	Cry of the Last Unicorn	Rossano Galante	Schirmer/HL
Open C Grade	Tirana	Carol Barnett	Boosey/HL
Open D Grade	The Visionaries	Brian Hogg	Brolga