​Elam Sprenkle Compositions (1981 - 1993) written for brass quintet alone or with other musicians/ensembles. 
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  1. Six Songs (1981) for mezzo-soprano and brass quintet (text by Emily Dickinson) was commissioned for, and premiered and recorded by, mezzo-soprano Elaine Bonazzi and the ABQ.​
  2. A Serenade To Music  (1981) for Crescent String Quartet, Annapolis Brass Quintet, Western Wind Vocal Sextet (text by Shakespeare) and premiered in July 1981 for Artpark's 2nd annual Chamber Music Feast.​
  3. Three Sketches on a Southern Hymn Tune (1981) for brass quintet.
  4. Quaker Bottom (1982) Three Vignettes for brass quintet and orchestra written for and premiered by ABQ & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and performed in 1984 for broadcast with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra.
  5. Three Fanfares (1984) for brass quintet  (ABQ's fanfare for '87 opening of Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall)
  6. Diana's Hymns (1987) for chorus, mezzo-soprano, brass quintet & piano (texts by various poets)
  7. An Aubade (1988) for brass quintet was written for and premiered at 20th International Astronomical Union Ceremonies in Baltimore
  8. Sister Anne (1988) for vocal sextet and brass quintet (text from James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones)
  9. Darius Green and His Flying-Machine (1988) for two choirs, solo soprano, brass quintet, & piano (text by John Townsend Trowbridge)
  10. Early Music Suite After Susato, Scheidt and Pezel (1984) for brass quintet and orchestra
  11. The Creation (1990) for chorus, children's choir, mezzo-soprano, brass quintet, piano (text by James Weldon Johnson) and premiered by Columbia Pro Cantare and ABQ March 3, 1990
  12. Birches (1991) for chorus and brass quintet (text by Robert Frost)  premiered by Columbia Pro Cantare and ABQ
  13. Diversions on a Repeated Sequence (1991) for brass quintet was written for and premiered at the 8th International Congress of Human Genetics Ceremonies in Washington, DC
  14. ​Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1993) for chorus and brass quintet (text by Walt Whitman) and premiered March 28, 1993 by Columbia Pro Cantare: Frances Dawson, Conductor, and Annapolis Brass Quintet:  Robert Suggs and David Cran, trumpets; Sharon Tiebert, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone.  The "Interlude" from Sprenkle's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry was the final piece performed by the Annapolis Brass Quintet on their April 1993 Farewell concerts.