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    Notated Music
    Old memories : song For voice and piano.
    • Contributor: Foster, Stephen Collins
    • Date: 1853

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  • Notated Music
    The brass band journal, a collection of new and beautiful marches, quick-steps, polkas, &c., Title varies. No. 1 reading "New and beautiful marches, quick steps, polkas, &c." In this set the title "The brass band journal" begins with the No. 6. The set is incomplete, lacking…
    • Date: 1854
  • Book/Printed Material
    Dodworth's brass band school : containing instructions in the first principles of music, together with a …
    • Contributor: Dodworth, Allen
    • Date: 1853

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    Eaton's series of national and popular songs : for small military brass bands (from five to …
    • Date: 1852

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  • Notated Music
    Music for military bands, composed & arranged by E. K. Eaton
    Cover title: Twelve pieces of harmony for military brass bands | Pieces of harmony for military brass bands | 12 pieces of harmony for military brass bands
    • Contributor: Eaton, E. K.
    • Date: 1846

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  • Notated Music
    Military band music. First series. Printed in score The first 50 numbers of this series are bound in one volume. The succeeding numbers are in separate sheet form.
    • Date: 1866
  • Notated Music
    [Manchester cornet band books] Dance music, marches, and song and opera excerpt arrangements for brass band. Reproduction of 58 ms. parts, 1849-1852, housed in the Manchester N.H. Historic Association. Available also through the Library of Congress…
    • Contributor: Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, N.H.)
    • Date: 19??
  • Notated Music
    [Port Royal band books] Available also through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Music from the Civil War era.
    • Date: 1864
  • Notated Music
    Peters' sax-horn journal : a collection of new and beautiful marches, waltzes, polkas, schottischesm etc., intended … For 2 E♭ cornets, 2 B♭ cornets, 2 alto horns, 2 baritones, 2 tubas, bass drum, cymbals, and side drum. Conserved; 001424 1974 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact…
    • Contributor: Schatzman, J.
    • Date: 1859
  • Notated Music
    O 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…
    • Contributor: Donizetti, Gaetano
    • Date: 2000

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  • Notated Music
    Captain Shepherd's quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    Captain Finch's quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.)
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    Moonbeam waltzes Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Downing, David L. - Farmer, Henry
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    General 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…
    • Contributor: Knaebel, Simon
    • Date: 2000

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  • Notated Music
    Lilly Bell quick step Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Friederich, G. W. E.
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    Door latch quickstep Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Goodwin, George H.
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    Free and easy Computer printout. For brass band. Caption title.
    • Contributor: Downing, David L.
    • Date: 1999

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  • Notated Music
    The fountain quick step;
    • Contributor: Lyon, George W.
    • Date: 1848

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  • Notated Music
    The heart bow'd down. A ballad sung in the opera of the Bohemian girl
    • Contributor: Balfe, M. W. (Michael William)

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  • Notated Music
    O summer night; serenade in the opera of Don Pasquale Acc. arr. for piano.
    • Contributor: Donizetti, Gaetano
    • Date: 1850

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  • Notated Music
    Squire's Cornet Band Olio No. 3. Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Date: 1875
  • Audio Recording
    [Library of Congress Music Division concert, 1974-09-??]
    Concert for brass band, voice, and piano     Vocal works sung in English or Swedish. Merja Sargon, soprano; Bernard Rose, piano; band playing brass instruments from collections of the Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Fennell, conductor. Recorded Sept. 1974, Coolidge, Auditorium, Library…
    • Contributor: Goodwin, George H. - Sargon, Merja - Foster, Stephen Collins - Bovy-Lysberg, Charles-Samuel - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.) - Noeren, J. M. - Friederich, G. W. E. - Downing, David L. - Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik - Farmer, Henry ... Goodwin, George H. - Sargon, Merja - Foster, Stephen Collins - Bovy-Lysberg, Charles-Samuel - Grafulla, C. S. (Claudio S.) - Noeren, J. M. - Friederich, G. W. E. - Downing, David L. - Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik - Farmer, Henry - Knaebel, Simon - Balfe, M. W. (Michael William) - Fennell, Frederick - Rose, Bernard - Benedict, Julius - Library of Congress. Music Division - Jaeger, Edmund - Donizetti, Gaetano - Wallace, William Vincent
    • Date: 1990
  • Collection
    Band Music from the Civil War Era On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress re-created a typical concert of brass band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. That concert has become the starting-point for…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
    • Date: 2000

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    Related Resources In American Memory Civil War Maps The Civil War Map collection of the Geography and Map Division consists of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and theater-of-war maps which depict troop activities and fortifications during…
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    Rights and Access The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or other rights holders (such as holders of publicity and/or…
  • Article
    Articles and Essays Articles and galleries detailing the American brass band movement, contemporary recordings of works, photos of civil war bands and instruments.
  • Article
    A 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
  • Article
    About 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…
    • Date: 1850
  • Article
    Photo 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…
    • Date: 1850
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    Drum Corps A sampling of photographs of civil war drum corps.
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    In Formation A sampling of photographs of civil war bands in formation.
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    Portraits A gallery sampling of portraits of civil war bands, band members, and instruments.
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    The 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
  • Article
    Band 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…
  • Article
    Band Music Detail of "Door Latch Quickstep," by George H. Goodwin, from the Manchester Cornet Band Books in the Music Division. Audio Clip That there was a proliferation of brass bands with all the…
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    Brass Bands in the 1850s "Central Park Music" (New York: H. B. Dodworth, 1863), Music Division. John Sullivan Dwight records in Dwight's Journal (see note 14) that in 1862 band concerts in Central Park were paid for…
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    English Influence Detail from reception of Brigadier General Corcoran by Mayor Opdyke and the citizens of New York at Castle Garden, August 22--Mayor Opdyke escorting the general to his carriage. (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,…
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    Essay Notes 1. The designation brass for the instruments in question is an accepted generic term for metal wind instruments played with a cup-shaped mouthpiece in which the vibrating lips of the player generate…
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    German, Irish, and Italian Influences "Elmira Cornet Band," Thirty-third Regiment, of the New York State Volunteers, July 1861 [Detail]. Arlington, Va. June, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-4545. Call Number: LOT 4190E. In American amateur…
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    Post-Civil War Bands Drum corps of 10th Veteran Reserve Corps, Washington, D.C., April, 1865 [Detail]. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8171-7688. Call Number: LOT 4190G. At the close of the war many of the…