Chapter Four: Music Library (Continued)
Music publishers began releasing folios for small Brass Ensembles intended to supply the growing market of town bands. Amoung the early folio titles were, The Brass Band Journal, and Peters' Saxhorn Journal.
When hostilites broke out between the United States and The Confederate States of America, many of the existing town bands joined as a unit to become Regimental & Brigade Bands. The proliferation of military bands brought about a need for more and more musical arrangements for them to play. Many talented composers and arrangers, such as Claudio S. Grafulla, began work supplying the military bands with new arrangements of existing songs, as well as brand new compositions.
The Frontier Brigade Band is planning to release CD Recordings of music from our extensive Music Library soon.
Music Library includes selections from:
Manchester Cornet Band (New Hampshire)
1st Brigade Band – Brodhead, Wisconsin
25th Massachusetts Regimental Band
3rd New Hampshire “Port Royal” Band
Squire’s Cornet Band Olio
Brass Band Journal – 1854
Dodsworth Brass Band
3rd Wisconsin Regimental Band
Peters' Saxhorn Journal
26th North Carolina Regimental Band
Stratton Military Band Journal
Eaton’s Songs for Small Military Brass Bands
4th New Hampshire Regimental Band
19th Virginia Heavy Artillery Battalion Band
Archives of the U.S Marine Band
Archives of the Library of Congress
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Cowboy Band