Sound the Trumpet! Beat the Drum!.
Author : Henry Purcell
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Author : Henry Purcell
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Author : Bruce P. Gleason
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0806156538
Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry. Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Crusaders encountered in the Holy Land. He describes the performance, musical selections, composition, and duties of American mounted bands that have served regular, militia, volunteer, and National Guard regiments in military and civil parades and concerts, in ceremonies, and on the battlefield. Over time the composition of the bands has changed—beginning with trumpets and drums and expanding to full-fledged concert bands on horseback. Woven throughout the book are often-surprising strands of American military history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War, action on the western frontier, and the two world wars. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.
Author : Curtis Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521441742
The tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death fell in 1995, and this 1995 volume of specially commissioned essays was collected to celebrate Purcell's music in his tercentenary year. The essays are representative of the best research and deal mainly with the autograph manuscripts, Purcell's compositional technique, the relationship between Purcell and his teacher John Blow, a reassessment of Purcell court odes, performance practice and wordsetting, and eighteenth-century reception history, particularly regarding King Arthur. The volume is well illustrated with music examples and photographs of important manuscripts. It also analyses Purcell's compositional techniques through detailed study of his manuscripts and reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts. The book opens with an assessment of Purcell's illusive personality.
Author : George Frideric Handel
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Christoph. Fr Grieb
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Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Christoph Friedrich Grieb
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Newton Ivory Lucas
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Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 1868
Category : English language
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Author : Christoph Friedrich Grieb
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Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Lucas
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Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Newton Ivory Lucas
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Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1868
Category : German language
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