FREE
March Music Website!
"With
Links to The Worlds
Great Marches Online"
| Original jBosserman March Website 2005! |
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| This Website containes over 50 pages! |
Methods to Access March Music
1 -Use the A-Z Index in left column to locate
a march by title, or find marches by a specific composer. English named marches are located in center
column. Non-English named marches are located in the right column.
2 - Use navigation tabs (top left) to locate websites of organizations
that regularly play march music.
3 - Access jBosserman marches in right
column.
4 -
March Trivia, History, Articles, etc are located at the bottom of web pages A-Z. Click
bottom navigation tab for index.
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NOTE: All links are
viewed in a separate browser so you can x out linked websites or UTube and be automatically returned to this site!
Criteria for Selecting Linked
Marches
(Scroll to bottom right)
Here's an old forgotten Goldman march that everyone
will find delightful. It deserves a place in history!
March of The Month!
In Process UTube march videos are listed under march titles. If your band has a good
march video not included on this site please let me know and I'll list it. jB
*Can anyone
help with these marches? If you know the name and/or composer of this march please
let us know. It would be greatly appreciated. Just click below to hear short clip. (Courtesy
Rapid Share)
CLICK HERE!
Also anyone with info on a march called Happy Heiny (composer or CD) that was played
on Washington radio WMAL in the 70's and 80's, please let let us know.
| Click for website of march composer David Schramm |
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| with listing of nearly 1000 marches & their composers, |
Band
Directors!
Score
and band parts to any of the American Heritage CD marches can be ordered HERE. I will be adding some PDF parts for download under the track listings for each march so you can better
determine the difficulty in playing. I will also send a generous donation to any band providing me with a video of their
performance of any of my marches suitable for displaying on UTUBE.
See If You Can Identify
This Mystery March Composer?
An
American, born in the last half of the 19th century, at age 12 he was performing as soloist on the cornet, and at age
16 played violin in a theater orchestras. He quickly gained recognition as an arranger, conductor,
and composer. One of his popular marches, Associated Press, was written in 1897. He
formed his own band in 1899 and became a prolific composer with over 140 marches to his credit. His works were published by
over 12 publishing companies of the time. He died in 1940. Click HERE to find out all about our mystery composer.
Which Marches Are Most Popular?
There
have been a few march popularity polls that I am aware (15 to 20) taken in the last 50 years, particularly among band directors
and music professionals, both in America and Europe. ( There have obviously been many more of which I am not aware) Most of
these polls have been quite limited with 1000 or less voters. American polls clearly put Stars & Stripes as number one
but international polls consistently have the German march Alte Kameraden (Old Comrades) as number one. Other than these
two marches there is no clear cut lineup of favorite marches in any of the the polls I have studied. jB
An
international poll by Norman E. Smith from 1976 - 1986 of 1000 plus qualified voters had the following top 10 marches:
1- Stars & Strips by Sousa, 2-Old Comrades (Kameraden) by Teike, 3-
Washington Grays by Grafuila (Spanish), 4- Colonel Bogey by K. Alford (British), 5- Barnum
& Bailey by King, 6-National Emblem by Bagley, 7- Florentiner by Fucik (Check),
8-Semper Fidelis by Sousa, and (tied) Valdres by Hanssen (Norway), 9- Inglesina (Little English Girl) by Cese, and
10-Under The Double Eagle by J.Wagner (Austria). In the 99 places listed in the poll, Sousa had 19
places,, Filmore had 6, and King had 5.
The Wikipedia lists about 65 marches which are labeled "popular" because they are frequently played in America.
It is interesting to note that in this list there are 3 marches by Fillmore, 4 by King, and 11 by Sousa.
| All original marches and recordings of jBosserman |
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