FENNELL EDITIONS THE CORCORAN CADETS MARCH 1890 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA EDITED BY FREDERICK FENNELL FOR CONCERT BAND Instrumentation 1 Score 2 E Alto Saxophone 1 1 F Horn 4 6 Flute/Piccolo 2 E¯ Alto Saxophone 2 2 Trombone 1 1 Oboe 1 2 B¯ Tenor Saxophone 2 Trombone 2 1 Oboe 2 2 E¯ Baritone Saxophone/ 2 Trombone 3 1 Bassoon 1 E¯ Contra-Alto Clarinet 2 Euphonium B.C. 1 Bassoon 2 2 B¯ Cornet 1 2 Euphonium T.C. 1 E¯ Clarinet 2 B¯ Cornet 2 4 Tuba 4 B¯ Clarinet 1 2 B¯ Cornet 3 1 Double Bass 4 B¯ Clarinet 2 2 B¯ Trumpet 1 1 Timpani 4 B¯ Clarinet 3 2 B¯ Trumpet 2 2 Snare Drum/ Field Drum 1 E¯ Alto Clarinet 1 F Horn 1 1 Crash Cymbals 2 B¯ Bass Clarinet 1 F Horn 2 1 Bass Drum 1 B¯ ContrabassSAMPLE Clarinet 1 F Horn 3 Grade 3 10100231 Copyright © 1986 Ludwig Masters Publications. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Digital and photographic copying of this publication is illegal. ABOUT THE EDITOR FENNELL EDITIONS Frederick Fennell was best known as the most Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, a conducting BLUES FOR A KILLED KAT LINCOLNSHIRE POSY famous wind ensemble conductor in the world. fellow at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and Jack End/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100246 Percy Grainger/ed. Fennell Gr. 5 10100250 His numerous recordings, first with the Eastman Conductor in Residence at the University of Mi- Written by Jack End in memory of a cat which he found on Swan Street, This long-awaited Full Score Edition by Fennell is the result of interest and Rochester, New York. To express his sadness he wrote this blues piece. action by wind band conductors everywhere to have an accounting for every Wind Ensemble (which was his creation), and ami. His opera conducting included the Eastman detail in all parts. Using the best available information, it is a “true” expansion BULLETS AND BAYONETS on Grainger’s original compressed full score. later with the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, are Opera Theater and the Houston Light Opera John Phillip Sousa/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100275 the standards against which all other recordings Company. He had conducted the Boston “Pops” Held by a legion of march afficionados to be one of the best in Sousa’s legend- PETITE SYMPHONIE, Opus 90 ary output. Available on Brain Recordings “March World” CD, Volume 3 Charles Gounod/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100230 are compared. However, Dr. Fennell was equally Orchestra, the Boston Esplanade, and Carnegie (#32997503). Devotees of wind chamber music rise in thanks for this charming contribu- at home conducting opera and orchestra. Some Hall “Pops” Concerts. During his most distin- tion. Its four gracefully balanced movements written in classical form display THE CORCORAN CADETS MARCH of his conducting assignments in these fields in- guished career, in addition to receiving almost Gounod’s superb gifts for melody and motion. Contra parts and meticulous John Philip Sousa/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100231 editing have been added. cluded The Cleveland Orchestra, The London every honor the world can bestow for conduct- This is the first march Fennell conducted with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and always one of his favorites. Available on Brain Recordings “March World” RICERCARE a 6 – The Musical Offering BMV1079 Symphony, the Denver, New Orleans, St. Louis, ing, he earned the love and admiration of those CD, Volume 2 (#32997502). J.S. Bach/McAlister/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100227 National, Buffalo, Houston, Calgary, Eastman, who had been fortunate enough to play under his Bach wrote The Musical Offering in his later years. The final six-voice DIRGE from “Indian,” Suite No. 2, Op. 48 Ricercare, unlike the rest of the music in this collection, used a fugue subject Hartford and San Diego symphony orchestras. direction and those who had come to know him MacDowell/Kimura/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100364 of his own. He was an assistant to Serge Koussevitzky at through his appearances all over the world. A band transcription from the original orchestration, this second suite on variations of Indian melodies becomes a noble expression of lament. RIFLE REGIMENT MARCH (1886) Tanglewood, the Assistant Music Director of the John Philip Sousa/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100215 ENTRY MARCH OF THE BOYARS The title is derived from the Third Infantry, known as “The Old Guard.” This Johan Halvorsen/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100278 is one of Sousa’s unusual marches—it has a twenty-bar introduction. A great Prepared from the primary score of 1895, the Fennell edition is a careful early Sousa march. Full score in the original key—an important factor. PROGRAM NOTES reconsideration of the entire score, including full percussion parts and music for the low clarinets. Available on Brain Recordings “March World” CD, Available on Brain Recordings “March World” CD, Volume 5 (#32997505). John Philip Sousa composed 136 marches in the him) stylistically unique. He succeeded, writing Volume 3 (#32997503). SECOND SUITE IN F for Military Band years between 1880 and his death in 1932. The his most tightly-knit, rhythmically integrated THE FIREBIRD [1919] Gustav Holst/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100489 percentage of those which achieved a lasting suc- and sparsely conceived piece, from the first note Stravinsky/Earles/ed. Fennell Gr. 5 10100354 A companion edition to the First Suite in E-flat, also published by Ludwig The definitive wind setting of this landmark work includes Introduction, Music. Includes a free recording of this work from the historic Telarc digital cess is a very high one-third of that total output. to the last. CD with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, conducted by Frederick Fennell. Sousa’s marches are probably the most enduring, Rondo of the Princesses, Infernal Dance, Berceuse, and Finale. The first of his It is very unusual Sousa, written for the cadet drill three great ballet scores, it is the culmination of the Russian Romantic tradi- most played music by an American composer; tion and at the same time the doorway to the 20th century. SERENADE IN E�, Opus 7 team of Washington, D.C., sponsored by the phi- Richard Strauss/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100224 they are timeless, fadless, remarkable little essays Although composed by Strauss at an early age, this piece has now been edited lanthropist W. W. Corcoran. The Corcoran Cadets FIRST SUITE IN E� for Military Band in a deceivingly simple musical form. Gustav Holst/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100469 and prepared after many years of study by Frederick Fennell, with all the pre- was my choice for the first march played by The Includes a free recording of this work from the historic Telarc digital CD with cision of a master edition. They offer the interested conductor and scholar Eastman Wind Ensemble; it closed our first NBC the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, conducted by Frederick Fennell. The over- sized score includes all of Fennell’s corrections to the original, along with his SERENADE No. 10 in B� a clear line of continual development. Their first network broadcast from The University of Roch- performance practices and his famous article from The Instrumentalist maga- W. A. Mozart/ed. Fennell Gr. 5 10100319 decade began with Our Flirtation (1880), during ester’s Eastman School of Music, 27 January 1953. zine. This is the only authorized Fennell Edition of this band classic! For 2 Oboes, 2 B� Clarinets, 2 Basset Horns (or B� Clarinets), 2 F Horns, 2 B� Bass Horns (or F Horns), 2 Bassoons, 1 Contra Bassoon, 1 String which time he produced 28 titles including such Frederick Fennell FUNERAL MARCH Contrabass, 1 B� Contrabass Clarinet. Includes extensive notes written by the varied and original pieces as Sound Off, The Rifle Grieg/Eriksen/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100264 editor and suggested seating formations. Tokyo/April 1983 Regiment, The Picadore, The Thunderer, The Wash- Funeral March is an original work for winds by a major composer of the Romantic era. Composed in 1866 in memory of Norwegian composer Rikard SERENADE No. 11 in E� Major K. 375 ington Post, and Semper Fidelis. Nordraak, Trauermarsch is an extremely dramatic work, worthy of the most W. A. Mozart/ed. Fennell Gr. 5 10100334 advanced ensembles. For 2 Oboes, 2 B� Clarinets, 2 E� Horns (or F Horns), 2 Bassoons. The second The second decade began with The Corcoran Pronunciation: Sousa, not Souza; Cor-cor-an, in a series of three performance editions of serenades for winds by Mozart. Cadets March (1890), Sousa’s eighth-note march IN STORM AND SUNSHINE each syllable of equal strength. J. C. Heed/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100452 SERENADE No. 12 in C Minor designed more for sit-down playing than for the One of the greatest circus marches of all time, this incorporates those special W. A. Mozart/ed. Fennell Gr. 5 10100350 field, street, or dance floor. It is as though he Material for the notes from Frederick Fennell’s touches which are the hallmarks of Fennell’s march performances. Available on Another of the Mozart masterpieces scored faithfully for 2 Oboes, 2 B� Brain Recordings “March World” CD, Volume 4 (#32997504). Clarinets, 2 E� Horns, 2 Bassoons. Includes extensive notes by the editor. set out deliberately to compose a piece in duple essay: “The Sousa March: A Personal View,” pp. time that would be produced with minimum re- 81 – 105: Perspectives on John Philip Sousa, edited LA OREJA DE ORO (The Golden Ear) – Pasodoble Torero THE THUNDERER (March) SAMPLE John Philip Sousa/ed. Fennell Gr. 4 10100335 Mariano San Miguel/ed. Fennell Gr. 3 10100220 sources yet be rhythmically neat, texturally clean, by John Newsom, Music Division, Library of Part march, part Spanish popular music, part reflective solo trumpet cadenza, this One of the most popular marches around the world, this impeccable edition harmonically and melodically satisfying and (for Congress, Washington, 1983.