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Composed by renowned bandleader Helen May Butler Cosmopolitan America was written for the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and was selected as the official march for Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign. Butler was a virtuoso in her own right and her ensembles had a well earned reputation for musical excellence. Butler directed the premier band of professional female musicians and she was frequently referred to as the Female Sousa. Please contact me directly if you desire a printed score size of 11X17.

Cosmopolitan America

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The Bohemian Girl is an opera in three acts by Irish composer Michael Balfe (1808 - 1870). This was first performed in 1843 at London's Drury Lane Theatre and ran for with great success for 100 nights and followed with revivals in Europe and the US. This remained in the repertories of touring companies for the next 100 years to include a silent movie rendition and a 1936 comedic version by comic greats Laurel &amp; Hardy. Balfe is noted as the most important operatic composer in Victorian England and is credited with over 43 operas in his life time. He also conducted the local premiers of several Verdi operas. Bohemian Girl was Balfe's greatest triumph with "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marbles Halls" standing the test of time.

Bohemian Girl Overture

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The "Clef Club March" is a historic American composition written in a grand march style played with a biting attack and an infectious rhythm. Organized in 1910 by James Reese Europe, the Clef Club was the first trade union for New York's black performers. This was a 125-piece orchestra made up of traditional instruments plus large numbers of mandolins, guitars, banjos and upright pianos. In 1912 the Clef Club March opened the first of three historic Carnegie Hall engagements that presented Concert(s) of Negro Music. These were the very first performances of a black ensemble at Carnegie. New York, wrote one critic after their first performance, woke up to the fact that it had something new in music. The music performed by Jim Europe and the Clef Club was a proto-jazz mixture of ragtime, blues, and minstrel songs that paved the way for the coming Jazz era.

Clef Club March

Brass quintet medley of six Christmas Carols, including O Little Town, Greensleeves, Away in a Manger, Midnight Clear, Silent Night, and Hark! the Herald. These can be played individually, two or three pieces in sequence, or in its entirety.

Christmas Carols for Brass Quintet

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George M Cohan's iconic "Over There" was one of the most popular songs from WWI. Combining bits of Ragtime, march music like Sousa, and jigs, the song was an instant hit selling over 2 million copies. A must have for any WWI centennial concert.

Over There March

<p>Long lost by time, here is the original version of W.C. Handy's iconic St Louis Blues as performed by James Reese Europe and his 369th Hellfighter Band. The verses are the familiar standard 12-bar blues, which was new at the time. It also has a 16-bar bridge written as a habanera rhythm popularly called a 'Spanish tinge.' The final repeated strain is borrowed from Handy's lesser known 'Jogo Blues,' a melody Handy's preacher would hum during offerings. Handy and Europe met in 1915 and became close friends.</p>

The Saint Louis Blues

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This was written march size using the U.S. Army Musical Performance Team (MPT) concept for flexible instrumentation for military change of command, retirement or patriotic opener ceremonies. The service songs can be played individually or as a continuous medley.There are four general instrument groups plus optional drums/percussion. The arrangements are intended for instrumentation from between 4 to 12 players + drums. Simply choose at least one instrument from each group taking care to maintain good overall balance.

Ceremonial Music Collection

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Scott Joplin is known as the King of Ragtime. Less known is that he also wrote three stage productions. Treemonisha, his third and most ambitious effort, was a serious and substantive work written as a serious grand opera. Forgotten for almost 60 years Joplin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Here now is the overture exhibiting the brilliance of a true American master.

TREEMONISHA

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James Reese Europe's 369th Hellfighter Band is a collection of Hot Ragtime and Jazz pieces as performed by the famous 369th Harlem Hellfighters.  The 369th was an all-Black National Guard Infantry Regiment formed on the eve of the United States entrance in World War I.  Led by LT James Reese Europe, he and the band profoundly shaped the direction of American popular music.  This medley includes Bugle Call Rag, Clarinet Marmalade, Indianola, Goodnight Angeline, That Moaning Trombone, and Memphis Blues.

James Reese Europe's 369th Hellfighter Band

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Quintessential Ragtime composition for trombone quartet.

12th Street Rag

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The composition behind the development of the popular Foxtrot dance craze was Handy’s 1912 “Memphis Blues”, subtitled “Mr Crump” for then Memphis Mayor Edward Crump’s election campaign. This was first identified as a “Southern Rag”, then a “Rag Two-Step”. James Reese Europe recorded this in 1914 and it turned out to be a huge hit and one of his bands' most popular songs.  In the process this launched W.C. Handy’s career to a national audience. Handy had several subsequent hits that we know today. Sadly, having previously sold the rights to "Memphis Blues" for $50, he never received royalties for his first national hit song. Commissioned by the Brainerd High School Bands; MN, Christopher Fogderud and Michael Sommerness, directors

The Memphis Blues

Three popular folk songs from the US Virgin Islands are presented for beginner band. This has four basic  groups of varying instruments for maximum flexibility with your ensemble. The percussion parts use claves, triangle, cabasa, guiro, bongos, conga, djembe, and bomba drums. The later two can be replaced with tenor drums.

Caribbean Paradise

A collection of Grade 3 ragtime and early jazz melodies written and recorded in 1914 by James Reese Europe. Europe was an influential figure who bridged the music of American brass bands with the coming Jazz age by introducing the sounds and rhythms of African-American music. This collection includes Castle Perfect Trot, Hey! There!, Castle Walk, Congratulations, Ballin' the Jack, Castle House Rag, and the Clef Club March.

James Reese Europe & his Society Orchestra

American Plantation Dances is a hidden gem; a lost piece of important American musical history. In 1893, after several years studying abroad, Arnold was on one several notable Black students chosen to attend the National Conservatory of Music in New York, then under the direction of Antonin Dvorak. While at the conservatory these students introduced Dvorak to the spirituals and folk melodies of the Black community. In return, Dvorak encouraged his students to draw from this, stating that here is "all that is needed to create a great and noble school of music". Dvorak drew from this for his famous Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World".  

A suite in four movements, American Plantation Dances combines European Romanticism with African-American dance themes. This was premiered at Dvorak's famous Madison Square Garden concert in January 1894 held just five weeks after the premier of the New World Symphony. For this concert Arnold conducted the orchestra. The piece was subsequently published in Germany as a piano duet and John Philip Sousa added this to the repertoire of his famous concert band.

American Plantation Dances

Alton Augustus Adams, born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, remains an iconic figure there. When the United States took over the islands in 1917, the new governor appointed Adams Chief Musician. The band that Adams assembled entered the U.S. Navy as a unit, making Adams the first black bandmaster to serve in the U.S. Navy. Governor's Own was written for Naval Governor Joseph W. Oman and was included in the first American bicentennial series on American music. Adams also was a prolific music journalist. He died in 1987.

Governor's Own March

<p>Explore the ground-breaking music of Will Marion Cook. "Clorindy", or "The Origin of the Cake Walk" (1898), broke the color barrier on Broadway and won accolades for Cook and lyricist/poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. "In Dahomey" (1903) was the first production to open in a major Broadway theater that was written and performed entirely by Black Americans. This ran for four years, first on Broadway then two tours in the U.S. and the United Kingdom before returning to New York. These were landmark productions that introduced America and Europe to Black music. Selections include "Darktown Is Out Tonight", "Who Dat", "Molly Green", and "On Emancipation Day".</p>

Will Marion Cook

In Dahomey is an important piece of American musical history. This was
  the first Broadway production written and performed by Black Americans. Cook
  combined traditional operetta styles with Ragtime. Running four years in the
  US and UK In Dahomey was one of the most successful musical comedies of its
  era breaking ethnic and racial stereotypes and further laying the foundation
  of the music that became Jazz.

In Dahomey

Bizet's famous aria from the opera "Carmen" scored for trombone quintet. The range of the 1st trombone makes this appropriate for the more advanced player.

Habanera

Scott Joplin's 1911 Treemonisha was his most ambitious work. Joplin wrote   this a three-act grand opera to include an overture and prelude, recitatives,   choruses, small ensemble pieces, arias, and even a ballet. A Real Slow Drag   closes the production as a celebratory dance. Slow Drags were a popular   Ragtime dance in the late 1800s that was later resurrected as part of Blues   dancing. This piece captures Joplin's unique style as adapted for a full   orchestra.

A Real Slow Drag

Written in traditional march style this piece is dedicated to men and women of Troop Command of the California State Military Reserve who volunteer to serve the citizens of our state.

March of the Golden Gate

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