Military Music

M I L I TA RY M U S I C . H I STO R Y O F W I ND - I NST R U M E NTA L BA ND S A . CO NTAI N I N G KETCH OF THE H I STORY AND V LO M T O F O - AI R M U SI I N I . S D E E P EN PEN C ANCI ENT TI M ES. T I STRU M T AND TH 2 . A I S I R R NC EN N EN E SU CCESSO S. H I T RY F THE R I S AND V L M T F M R Y 3 . S O O E DE E O P EN O O DE N M I LI TAR M U SI C. P E A . K A P Y J . ' I llustr d ate mm A uth e ntic R eprese ntations of A n c ie nt PVz nd an d Num e r ous E xa mples of A ncie n t M usic . A ND (30 BOOSEY , 2 R T STR T LO ND N w A D O . N N 95 , EGEN EE , , EW YO R K . Th e I llustratio ns o f Win d- I nstrume n ts o n th e n ine Plate s are take n fro m the ’ authe ntic spe cime ns in th e M use um o i I nstrume n ts attache d to th e R o yal n e r re f M us at ru e s. Co s vato i o ic, B ss l M an o n th e re te ur du M usée du e n me n o n n th e re se nt o r to M . 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M I L I TA R Y M U SI C - N TR M E NT A ND A H I STO RY O F W I ND I S U AL B S . “ I N offering the following sketch of the rise and progress of Military Music , “ — or, more correctly expressed , of Wind Instrumental Bands , a few preliminary m remarks indicating its scope ay be acceptable . Hucbald There is certainlyno lack o f Musical Histories . From the t i me when endeavo ured to formulate some primitive rules according to which harmonic progressions should be written , down to our own era , every step in the evolution of the musical art has had its chronicler . We can trace minutely the progress of - R Church music , the rise of the Opera, from its first simple declamatory ecitative , “ ” “ ” r — down to the present complex form of Grand Ope a , from the ancient Suite ” — to the modern Symphonies , all is amply recorded . Yet , while historians revelled in descriptions of the grandeur of ecclesiastical compositions , of the music of the princely palaces or the royal playhouses , the music th e asse dbve r ff of people has been p with almost contemptuous indi erence , and it seems so sa - o r w ho as if they were , to y , ashamed t mention the poo cousin found inspiration ” in the open air, or went a soldiering . And yet it is an acknowledged fact that the rhy thm ic form of most of our o rchestral music of the highest class originated in th at class of music which struck r it m a its roots into the hearts of the uncultured people , and the flowe s of which , if y - be permitted to use the simile , were cross fertilized by the technical skill of the old c s . w e lassical compo ers Thus find , to mention but one instance , that the orchestral “ ” w ’ Suites of Sebastian Bach , hich were the precursors of the modern Symphonie , — c da nce m e a su res . onsisted mostly of , such as were in vogue at the time of his labours e ve rfre sh He took the popular form , as then existing , and dressed it in the colours of i h s cultured imagination . But from the paucity of records concerning the music of the masses arises a s e rious difficulty the trial to bring into a focus the different beams of light leads to m uch waste of labour . For little scraps of information one h as to grope through p onderous volumes of frequently most uninteresting matter ; for every relevant B A I A H I S TOR Y OF M I LI T R Y M US C. o n e t o s paragraph has read hundred of pages , and I confess that more than once I “ have been tempted to cry with P rince Henry : Oh monstrous but one halfpenny worth o fbread to this intolerable deal o f sack I have endeavoured (to express m yself metaph o rically) t o draw attention to th e . th e rise of a neglected little current which , while peacefully wandering through n s th e labyrinthi e ages of the past , gathered trength ; and , having at length entered o m o f s d main river , f rms no mean part of that ighty stream mu ical art , the profoun influence of which is felt in every phase Of modern society the m d o n e h as t o As subject is a so ewhat tangle , it appeared to me advisable the three fo llowing headings I - m o m s . Sketch of open air usic in lden ti e . 2 . Ancient in stru m ents and their su c ce ssors . i . 3 . Sketch of development of mil tary music — - P A I R I N LD . I . O EN MUSIC O EN TIMES to n o n e Whenever a nation advanced a certain degree of civilizatio , music was o f b e autifie d : the graces of life carefully cultivated . It the ceremonies of religion , it s h o .

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