Favorite marches?

edevlin96 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:46 pm Post subject: Favorite marches?

I spent some time looking through marches as my HS wind ensemble was in the selection process for our Band Festival performance, and my director asked me to help him look for one. I really am stuck on Oh, Henry! that I played 1st part on in an Honors' band recently and absolutely loved, and the Klaxon march which is just a great piece IMO. The only other one we've read this year is Leroy Anderson's Ticonderoga which I am enjoying on the trumpet 1 part.

Any favorite marches that could be a challenge, or just fun to play for HS wind ensemble?

spach · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:46 pm Post subject:

Check this out...Grand Entry Swing March by David Baskerville
https://plus.google.com/111695088900262162666/posts/TaNYXxJGUUn
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Dale Proctor · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject:

Washington Grays, National Emblem, all the Sousa ones that have been played to death, Valdres, Bravura, Voice of the Guns, Army of the Nile, Eagle Squadron...those are a few that come to mind.
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trumpetdiva1 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:38 pm Post subject:

I’d suggest John Philip Sousa’s The Thunderer, Hail to a Spirit of Liberty, Stars and Stripes Forever, Hands across the Sea, Bullets and Bayonets, K.L. King’s Hosts of Freedom, and Henry Fillmore’s Rolling Thunder.

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TheBrassBandMajor · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:46 pm Post subject:

John Phillip Sousa's got the lead for marching

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MalinTrumpet · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:51 pm Post subject:

George Washington Bicentennial, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Washington Grays.

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Jay Lichtmann · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:26 pm Post subject:

When I was in Jr. High my favorite march was Amparito Roca by Jaime Texidor.

I did a brass quintet arrangement of it that can be heard here:

http://goo.gl/MDb2yP

I hope your band gets a chance to play it!
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derekthor · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:50 pm Post subject:

This is my summer gig: http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/ceremonial-guard/index.page (I'm only in the US for school). Favourite marches in the trumpet section include Eagle Squadron, HM Jollies, General Mitchell, Arnhem, Army of the Nile, The Vanished Army, and Gibraltar. Kenneth Alford is the way to go, IMO. I'm not a huge fan of Sousa marches.

Crazy Finn · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:59 am Post subject:

Anything but Sousa.

Well, most Sousa, anyway...

oj · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:39 am Post subject:

Valdres March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXxj7-sXtQE

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zaferis · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:31 am Post subject:

lots of good ones - having been a Military Musician I've played a ton of them. Of course all of the popular ones, many of which have been named already..

to add a couple I didn't see: Washington Post, Belgian Parachuttist, and a personal favorite is Black Horse Troop.
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david johnson · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:32 am Post subject:

Washington Grays (Grafulla) and Slavonic Girl's Farewell (Agapkin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx1U3obDnqg

or blow the judges' mind and do it this way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x87nSL58crc&index=13&list=FLk9OiKAuqhBNonRFuenByGg

dtrumpet101 · Regular Member Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 42

another vote for Valdres and Amparito.

if your band has good woodwinds, American's We is a great showpiece.

linzo · Regular Member Joined: 20 Jan 2015 Posts: 56

Light Infantry
King Cotton
Men of Harlech
Mechannized Infantry

The Vanished Army

kanemania · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:03 am Post subject:

Barnum & Bailey's Favorite.

oldenick · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:58 am Post subject:

Guadalcanal March
Invercargil
British Eighth
Belgian Paratroopers

+1 for Americans We, I love that one

This is a great book to have:
March Music Melodies
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jimpops · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:13 am Post subject:

Brighton Beach March is a fun one.
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jcathey · Regular Member Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 68

John Williams' 1941?

Dale Proctor · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:22 am Post subject:

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Amparito Roca (Texidor)
Crown Imperial (Walton)
Gumsucker's March (Grainger)
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