UNBELIEVABLE, DAVID!!!!!!! Here I was hoping for a few from 1907 (I wrote off the 1957 commission since it was SO bad, it makes the Lawrence Welk sound like Verdi's Aida. "Poooooooo co hantas...... daughter of Powhatan", more or less to the tune of "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Fronteir."
Based on your report of a band, which had to be a 'Harmonie Musick band' (clarinets, natural horns a bassoon or two) since valved brass instruments had another couple of decades before their invention, I shall now raise my sights and include some of that 1807 music. I already have Jefferson's March, Hail Columbia, Anacreon in Heaven (Star Spangled Banner), See the Conquring Hero ("Handel's Hail Mighty Caesar" from Judas Maccabeaus).
Boyne's Water is a new one on me, and since it was such a big part of the 1807 thing, then I'll try to find it.
Many thanks. Thanks to inputs like yours, my musical efforts may produce something be really significant in terms of brass band music.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kiracofe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-
> Randy: Inspired by your message was looking through some old notes I
> had made in writing my article on the four 19th century Jamestown
> Commemorations (which was published in the Virginia Magazine of History
> and Biography back in 2002) Let me add to your collection of tunes:
>
> According to the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer of May 22, 1807, the procession
> of the bicentennial celebration of the Jamestown Landings was led by a
> miltiary band (Nestle's Norfolk Artillery Co.) playing the tune "Boyne
> Water."
>
> Back in April 1807, the Petersburg Apollo had printed a poem about the
> bicentennial that was set to this "Boyne Water" tune; here's the last
> stanza:
>
> "My Ann, two hundred years have fled,
> Since round these green bands straying,
> Was seen the sweetest Indian maid,
> With her young virgins playing:
> O, we'll saunter through the groves,
> Which she adorned before us,
> Let's join with May's enraptured loves
> And swell the living chorus."
>
> The 1807 Grand National Jubilee (as it was called also featured some
> more tunes accompanying the offering of the toasts:
> So we get:
> "Ere Round the Huge Oak;"
> "Jefferson's March;"
> "See the Conquering Hero Comes;"
> "Roslin Castle;"
> "Hail Columbia;"
> "Life Let Us Cherish;"
> "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground;"
> "Hospitality, No Formality;"
> "Heavenly Union;"
> "That Seat of Science, Athens;"
> "To Anacreon in Heaven;"
> "Coolun;"
> "Time has not thinned my flowing hair;"
> and "Yankee Doodle."
>
> I'll check through the other celebration records to see if I can turn up
> any more for your project!
>
> David Kiracofe
>
>
>
>
> David Kiracofe
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