FREE
March Music Website!
"With
Links to The Worlds
Great Marches Online"
| Original jBosserman March Website 2005! |
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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 lleft of page)
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
| 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 nine jBosserman marches in the right column. can
be ordered HERE
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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| C2004-2008. by John J. Bosserman. All rights reserved. |
Alphabetical Listing Of over 60 jBosserman Marches you can hear on this website with free
download of Brass Quintet parts!
MarchKing.Com was started in 2005 as an effort to promote my own marches but in early 2007 I enlarged the site to include
links of all the other marches I found available on the Internet. It's strictly a non-profit endeavor because
I love march music, and I'd like to share this with everyone who feels the thrill and excitement
of a good march!
I'm not a career musician but played in the 82nd Division Army Band during WWII
and attended Cincinnati Conservatory for one year after leaving the service. During
that time I studied with one of Sousa's solo cornet players, Frank "Doc" Simon, an experience I will never forget.
Later,
in 1961-64 while I was a member of the North American Aviation Band in Columbus Ohio, I had discussions with Paul Bierley while he was working on Sousa's biography and I picked up many tidbits concerning march
music. I appreciate any comments you may have (click the picture at the top
right of this page).. jB
*To learn more about the Sounds of Sousa Band, visit there website
HERE!
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