To preview the tunes on our CD "Music from the Western Frontier" (INCLUDING OUR MOST REQUESTED TUNE, GARRY OWEN MARCH), click the link to the left of this announcement.
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Here's a short list of vintage tunes/arrangements that play out very, very well. If your "period band" doesn't have them, go out & find them now!!! **
- BUCKSKIN BAG OF GOLD (HENRY CLAY WORK; ARR BY PAUL MAYBERRY)
[fun bouncy tune with plenty of room for baritone & Eb cornet to show off)
- FIREMAN'S POLKA
[all together now: "Fire, Fire, Fire" ]
- features chorus from what other song? (hint: "do your best for one another...")
- GILMORE'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH (TP BROOKE) (1886)
[One of our all time favorites]
- SPIRIT OF THE NORTH (PATRICK GILMORE) Hard arrangement to find though!
(many thanks to the Allentown Band of Allentown PA for sharing their manuscript copy with our Bandmaster)
- TILDEN AND HENDRICKS MARCH (1876)
[good solid march, timeless, not the least bit dated even now]
** finding complete vintage arrangements can be tricky though. (Some of the Old Arizona Brass Band's selections were laboriously copied from microfische or extrapolated from parlor piano scores by our bandmaster) Some good places to begin your search are:
-plus Ebay auctions, antigue dealers, other 19th century-style bands, etc. etc.
