[Dixielandjazz] Re: Ideas For Tunes For Marching Bands

[BudTuba at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/18/05 4:46:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
Jeffmatthews111 at aol.com writes:

I am  interested in ideas for tunes for marching bands. We have  just  
completed our first outside gig under the shadow of the  imposing Ludlow 
castle  here 
in the UK. We were right by the  riverside. You can gues what our warm up  
number was. We have a  marching band booking coming up and I want to be  well 
prepared for  that. All ideas and anecdotes very welcome. I am a   learner.



Tunes which work well for marching bands are cakewalks and ragtime.   They 
have similar song structures, will work well while marching, and were  played by 
Jim Europe's Military Band to great aclaim during World War I.   Here are a 
few tunes which would work good in my mind:
 
Cakewalking Babies From Home
At A Georgia Camp Meeting
Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay
Hiawatha
When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France
Alexander's Ragtime Band
International Rag
I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier (protest tune)
Old Miss
 
You will probably have to arrange these tunes for the players, but the  piano 
sheet music is generally available for download.  Go to the sheet  music 
consortium at:
  _http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/librarian?SEARCHPAGE&Search_ 
(http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/librarian?SEARCHPAGE&Search) 
 
which will direct you to the collection(s) that have the titles you  pick.
 
I did an arrangement for small concert band of Hiawatha by Neil  Moret which 
I could try and locate for you.  

 
Roy (Bud) Taylor
Smugtown Stompers Jazz Band
"...we ain't just  whistlling dixie!"