Collection Items
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Notated MusicBrass Band Journal Instrumental Parts. print | 1 score ; 12 x 14 cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: Firth, Pond, & Co.
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Notated MusicDodworth's Brass Band School Score. print | 1 score ; 23 x 30cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: H. B. Dodworth & Co.
- Date: 1853-01-01
- Resource: - 82 pages
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Notated MusicEaton's Series of National and Popular Songs Score. print | 1 score ; 36 x 23cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: Henry Tolman
- Date: 1853-01-01
- Resource: - 14 pages
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Notated MusicTwelve Pieces of Harmony for Military Brass Bands of Seventeen Instruments Score. print | 1 score ; 36 x 23cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: Firth, Hall, & Pond
- Date: 1846-01-01
- Resource: - 78 pages
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Notated MusicMilitary Band Music Instrumental Parts. print | 1 score ; 27 x 33cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: John F. Stratton
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Notated Music[Manchester cornet band books] Instrumental Parts. microfilm | 16 microfilm reels ; 16 mm. | Reproduction of 58 ms. parts housed in the Manchester N.H. Historic Association. Includes 2 sets of brass band partbooks and "Band scraps" containing hand-written conductor's notes, and 1 set of parts for flute, 2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, 2 violins, and violoncello. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Music...
- Contributor: : Manchester N.H. Historic Association
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Notated MusicPeters Saxhorn Journal Instrumental Parts. print | 12 x 14 cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: Peters
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Notated MusicO 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: Library of Congress - Donizetti, Gaetano - Fennell, Frederick
- Resource: - 13 pages
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Notated MusicCaptain Shepherd's Quickstep This arrangement is from the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), second set, no. 120, in the Walter Dignam Collection at the Manchester Historic Association, Manchester, N.H. The castanet part, not in the Manchester books, appears in the published piano arrangement (Philadelphia: Beck & Lawton, 1850). Drum and piccolo parts, also absent in the Manchester version, have been taken,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
- Resource: - 25 pages
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Notated MusicCaptain Finch's Quickstep We know of no published version; the probable date of composition is sometime between 1850 and 1860. This arrangement, presumably Grafulla's, is from the manuscript band books of the Third New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, first set, no. 48, in the Music Division, Library of Congress. They are frequently referred to as the "Port Royal Band Books" because it was on Port Royal Island, S.C.,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
- Resource: - 39 pages
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Notated MusicThe Moonbeam Waltzes From the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), second set, no. 67. Piano arrangement published in America (Troy, N.Y.: Edward P. Jones, 1859). Downing's arrangement is in the common band key of E-flat, while the piano version is in F. The piccolo part has been added. Although it is not certain that the particular Henry Farmer who wrote these...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Farmer, Henry
- Resource: - 53 pages
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Notated MusicGeneral 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: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Knaebel, Simon
- Resource: - 18 pages
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Notated MusicLilly Bell Quickstep From the Brass Band Journal (New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1854). The trio of this march is an up-tempo version of a sentimental ballad, "Lilly Bell," by Charles Mueller, published in 1853 by the same firm. Friederich was an intensely active composer and arranger for Firth, Pond & Co. in the mid-1850s, producing the twenty-four pieces that make up the Brass Band Journal,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Friederich, G. W. E
- Resource: - 12 pages
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Notated MusicDoor Latch Quickstep From the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), second set, no. 15. Goodwin was leader of the Manchester Cornet Band for several years but apparently did not follow it when its director, Walter Dignam, took the band into service during the Civil War. It is recorded that "in 1863 Mr. Goodwin was leader in Wheeler's circus band, which position...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Goodwin, George H.
- Resource: - 29 pages
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Notated MusicFree and Easy From the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), second set, no. 82. The medley consists of six tunes, which are identified in the first E-flat soprano part: "Free and Easy," "Neapolitan," "Get Out of the Wilderness," "Wake Up Mose," "Good Bye," and "Crow Out Shanghai." "Free and Easy" must have been a tune so well known in 1861 that...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Fennell, Frederick - Downing, David L.
- Resource: - 53 pages
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Notated MusicSquire's Cornet Band Olio No. 3 Instrumental Parts. print | 14 parts ; 27 x 19cm. | Print (Form).
- Contributor: A. Squire
- Date: 1875-01-01
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ArticleArticles and Essays Articles and galleries detailing the American brass band movement, contemporary recordings of works, photos of civil war bands and instruments. -
ArticleA Concert for Brass Band, Voice, and Piano On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress recreated a typical concert of brass-band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. Recorded selections from that concert are presented here.- Date: 1974
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ArticleAbout the Instruments Used in the Recordings The instrumentation of the New Hampshire band, with the standard federally authorized size of twenty-four men (the number may have varied in practice though not in principle) is basically that advocated by Allen Dodworth for a balanced ensemble of cornets and saxhorns, with the exception of the additional D-flat piccolo and clarinet.- Date: 1850
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ArticlePhoto Gallery Most of the photographs presented here are selected from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Some also appear in the online collection Selected Civil War Photographs. In those cases a link to the bibliographic record in that collection has been provided.- Date: 1850
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ArticleThe American Brass Band Movement The early 1850s saw the brief flowering of a brilliant style of brass band music that constitutes an important but insufficiently explored part of our musical past.
- Date: 1850
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ArticleBand Instruments The phenomenal rise of the brass band in mid-nineteenth-century America can be better understood if we trace its antecedents and some of the technical developments that produced the type of brasswind family from soprano to bass that was the staple of our bands in the Civil War era.
