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    Notated Music
    Music for military bands, composed & arranged by E. K. Eaton
    Cover title: Twelve pieces of harmony for military brass bands | Pieces of harmony for military brass bands | 12 pieces of harmony for military brass bands
    • Contributor: Eaton, E. K.
    • Date: 1846

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  • Notated Music
    The brass band journal, a collection of new and beautiful marches, quick-steps, polkas, &c., Title varies. No. 1 reading "New and beautiful marches, quick steps, polkas, &c." In this set the title "The brass band journal" begins with the No. 6. The set is incomplete, lacking Nos. 3, 4, 22. Parts are also lacking in Nos. 5, 15, 24. Band parts.
    • Date: 1854
  • Notated Music
    [Port Royal band books] Available also through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Music from the Civil War era.
    • Date: 1864
  • Collection
    Eaton's series of national and popular songs : for small military brass bands (from five to twelve instruments)
    • Date: 1852

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    Peters' sax-horn journal : a collection of new and beautiful marches, waltzes, polkas, schottischesm etc., intended for a brass band of 13 instruments, or a less number if desirable For 2 Eâ™­ cornets, 2 Bâ™­ cornets, 2 alto horns, 2 baritones, 2 tubas, bass drum, cymbals, and side drum.
    • Contributor: Schatzman, J.
    • Date: 1859
  • Notated Music
    Squire's Cornet Band Olio No. 3. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Date: 1875
  • Notated Music
    Military band music. First series. Printed in score The first 50 numbers of this series are bound in one volume. The succeeding numbers are in separate sheet form.
    • Date: 1866
  • Notated Music
    Free and easy Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Downing, David L.
    • Date: 1999

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    Captain Shepherd's quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
    • Date: 1999

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    Captain Finch's quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
    • Date: 1999

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    Door latch quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Goodwin, George H.
    • Date: 1999

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    Moonbeam waltzes Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Downing, David L. - Farmer, Henry
    • Date: 1999

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    Lilly Bell quick step Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Friederich, G. W. E.
    • Date: 1999

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Dodworth's brass band school : containing instructions in the first principles of music, together with a number of pieces of music arranged for a full brass band
    • Contributor: Dodworth, Allen
    • Date: 1853

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    [Manchester cornet band books] Dance music, marches, and song and opera excerpt arrangements for brass band. Reproduction of 58 ms. parts, 1849-1852, housed in the Manchester N.H. Historic Association. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Music from the Civil War era. Includes 2 sets of ms. brass band partbooks; also "Band scraps" containing hand-written conductor's notes and 1 set of printed parts (without…
    • Contributor: Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, N.H.)
    • Date: 19??
  • Notated Music
    O Summer Night from Don Pasquale A popular tune found in many collections of the time, including Stephen Foster's Social Orchestra (1854), it serves, in this simple arrangement, as a good demonstration piece for the solo E-flat tenorhorn (sometimes called the E-flat alto). This so-called solo instrument was most often used melodically to double the E-flat soprano saxhorns or cornets at the octave below. It was, therefore, a popular melodic…
    • Contributor: Donizetti, Gaetano
    • Date: 2000

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    General Taylor Storming Monterey From the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), first set, no. 17. This is a curious composition. While we do not know its date, it was probably written not later than 1848, the year Zachary Taylor was elected President on the strength of his brilliant military success in the Mexican War, and despite the efforts of his commander, fellow…
    • Contributor: Knaebel, Simon
    • Date: 2000

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  • Audio Recording
    Hunters' Chorus, from The Rose of Erin sound recording | Performed by band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Benedict, Julius - Fennell, Frederick
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Audio Recording
    O Summer Night from Don Pasquale sound recording | Performed by band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Donizetti, Gaetano
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Audio Recording
    Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway sound recording | Performed by Merja Sargon, soprano; Bernard Rose, piano. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Foster, Stephen Collins - Sargon, Merja - Rose, Bernard
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The Herdsman's Mountain Song sound recording | Performed by Merja Sargon, soprano; Bernard Rose, piano. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Sargon, Merja - Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik - Rose, Bernard
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Audio Recording
    Captain Shepherd's Quickstep sound recording | Performed by band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.) - Fennell, Frederick
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Captain Finch's Quickstep sound recording | Performed by band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.) - Fennell, Frederick
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Audio Recording
    Indiana Polka sound recording | Performed by band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Jaeger, Edmund
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Audio Recording
    Old Memories sound recording | Performed by Merja Sargon, soprano; Bernard Rose, piano. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published as commercial records in LP, cassette, and compact disc format (Our Musical Past, OMP 101/102 Sound Recording (Form). Sound Cassette (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Foster, Stephen Collins - Sargon, Merja - Rose, Bernard
    • Resource: - 1 page