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The links for live internet broadcast of TUSAB Tuba/Euphonium conference doesn't seem to work for me. I keep getting 404 Not Found. Is there another link? I'm trying the links listed on this site:

http://www.usarmyband.com/tuba/tubaeuph ... rence.html

Thanks.

http://www.usarmyband.com/tuba/tuba_con ... dcast.html" target="_blank

That's an outdated page. If you don't mind, where did you get that from? Just want to make sure there aren't any bad links floating around. I reorganized the tuba conference's pages a while ago, but I think that is the old event page.

FYI, all Friday and Saturday will be broadcast with video.

Thanks,
Tom Bratten

Thanks Tom,

I think I got that link from a Google search... but googled a couple of months ago.

Thanks for the good link.

http://www.usarmyband.com/tuba/tuba_con ... dcast.html

Great sound in the euphonium choir.

I got most of what the LOC librarian said on the Sousa band. The discussion with the auditorium was harder to follow. One topic coming up there was about the additions to the original scores done after Sousa’s death. There I missed an important point. I got so much that it was about wrong inversions, but I didn’t get in which situations. Anybody able to refer that part of the discussion?

Klaus

The LOC librarian (Loras Schissel) was referring to arrangers (mostly high schools and the like) adding parts to some marches for an instrument that wasn't covered under the original arrangement. There were numerous mistakes in these... mostly the small march-sized arrangements written 10 or more years after J.P. Sousa's death.

Loras mentioned that he started a new website for free download of scores and parts for Sousa's music and passed out a hand-out with this info to the audience. I didn't hear him mention the new URL in the simulcast, but I think it's this: (if this is wrong - please correct it)

The March King: John Philip Sousa

We had the honor of having Loras Schissel as our guest conductor a couple of times over the years (Symphonic Band of The Palm Beaches). We learned a lot from his direction. He's also the director of the Virginia Grand Military Band.

Below the photo on the page you linked to, you will find these text links

Browse by Format:
ALL Formats
Photos Sheet music Librettos
Instrumental parts Audio
Scores & sketches Vocal scores
Print materials Scrap books

Clicking the Instrumental parts link will lead you to the page providing scans of several of Sousa’s marches. I have told of that page in a previous thread. It is most interesting to follow the changes in Sousa’s scoring from the small post-Civil War band format through more detailed instrumentation including harmony clarinets and 4 saxophones.

Sousa has a funny way of writing for the bassoons. Sometimes they join the baritone counter melodies, sometimes they play Alberti style bass lines. Neither is uncommon for bassoons, but often Sousa uses the bassoons on off-beats along with the horns. If that was audible, then the brasses must have played much less loud in the Sousa era.

Without any graphic refinements I have entered several of these sets of march parts into Finale scores to have a look down in Sousa’s toolbox. Very interesting to see the contrast to European marches, where euphs and baritones often are used in harmonies in two- or three-part lines.

Klaus