Sousa's second decade of writing marches began with The Corcoran Cadets (1890). The piece is an eighth-note march designed more for sit-down playing, rather than for the field. It seems as though Sousa set out to compose a march that would be produced with minimum resources, yet be rhythmically neat, textrurally clean, harmonically and melodically satisfying, and stylistically unique by his own standards. It was the first march performed by The Eastman Wind Ensemble, led by Frederick Fennell, closing their first NBC broadcast in 1953.

Publisher

LudwigMasters Publications

Composer

John Philip Sousa

Arranger

Frederick Fennell

Instrument

Band

Pages

286

ISBN

9781571349118

Stock code

LM10100231

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