Standard March Music...

[LoyalTubist]

Which standard march do you think has the best tuba part?

John Philip Sousa wrote some good parts for these marches:

Semper Fidelis
The Directorate
Powhatan's Daughter
Jack Tar
Anchor and Star
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

Fred Ricketts (alias Kenneth J. Alford) never wrote a boring tuba part for any of his marches... Here are some I remember playing:

Army of the Nile
Eagle Squadron
Voice of the Guns
Colonel Bogey
The Vedette
The Mad Major

Then marches by other composers:

New Colonial (R.B. Hall)
Gloria (Frank H. Losey)
Revelation (W. Paris Chambers)
Grandioso (R.F. Seitz)
Washington Grays (C.S. Grafulla)
On the Mall (Edwin Franko Goldman)
Purple Carnival (Harry L. Alford)
B.B. & C.F. (James Ord Hume)--[this, to me doesn't sound like a march but it's beautiful]

Maybe it would be fun to have a scrapbook of nothing but single tuba parts of marches. Then, when you are bored, you can play them (I do it!)

[Cameron Gates]

Which standard march do you think has the best tuba part?

John Philip Sousa wrote some good parts for these marches:

Semper Fidelis
The Directorate
Powhatan's Daughter
Jack Tar
Anchor and Star
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

2 others by JPS: Gallant Seventh and Glory of the Yankee Navy. I had never played these until I started playing marches for a living. They have the greatest tuba parts IMO.

[NickJones]

Barnum and Bailieys Favorite
The Waltonian
The Great Little Army - Alford
The President - William German
Brilliant J Orde Hulme
Black Knight - William Rimmer
Viva Birkinshaw - William Rimmer
Honest Toil - William Rimmer
Ravenswood - William Rimmer
Senator - George Allen

[Tom Holtz]

J.P. Sousa - Gallant Seventh
Louis Saverino - March Of The Women Marines
Samuel Barber - Commando March

[LoyalTubist]

I played Commando March, but I don't think that one qualifies. This is something that would be played on the street, marching.

[Chuck(G)]

What's a "standard march"? Do you include "screamers"?

Concert band, circus band or brass band?

BB literature usually has some very interesting tuba parts; (e.g. Simoraine or Muhledorf).

Russian military marches are kind of interesting, as the tuba usually ends up with a solo strain (e.g. Farewell to Slavianka).

A difficult question without some sort of guideline.

[iiipopes]

Playing marches is one of my favorite aspects of tuba playing, especially when the tubas join the rest of the low brass in the dog fight. before adding a flat for the trio.

Then again, maybe I just wait to hear who misses that additional flat, as it causes much grating and grinding in the sound of the band, being the new subdominant!

[Dean E]

National Emblem by Edwin Eugene Bagley
Semper Fidelis by John Philip Sousa
Bombasto by Orion R Farrar [arrangement with triplets for tubas]
Zacatecas March by Genaro Codina

[winston]

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[THE TUBA]

If circus marches counted, I would add

The Circus Bee
The Screamer
The Melody Shop
Rolling Thunder

but they don't count, so nevermind...

[ken k]

Rolling Thunder Karl King?
Them Basses ?
Grandioso Roland Seitz
Trombone King Karl King

[LoyalTubist]

Please do us all the favor of listing the composers...

Thanks.

And these should be a STANDARD MILITARY MARCH, intended to be played on the street. Amparita Roca doesn't fit that bill.

This is for a project I am doing.

Thanks again...

[r smith]

Don't forget Colonel Bogey on Parade. 20 minutes of some of Kenneth J Alfords best Matches.

[LoyalTubist]

Does it work on the street?

[Dan Schultz]

Karl King's "Melody Shop" as a great march.
Karl King's "Kentucky Sunrise" as just an 'interesting' tune.

It's fairly obvious that Karl King was a euph player.

[prototypedenNIS]

We had a Standard Rep back in the day at JTCVC

Standard of St. George-Alford
VOice of the Guns- Alford
Army of the Nile-Alford
Eagle Squadron-Alford
Heart of Oak
Washington Post-we pulled it for being too Sousa
The Middy-KJA
HM Jollies-KJA
By Land and Sea-KJA
A life on the Ocean Wave-arr. KJA
Scotland the Brave-?
National Emblem
Preobrajensky March
Military Escort-Fillmore
Scipio
British Grenadiers
Maple Leaf Forever

occasionally
RAF March-Willfred Davies...

Standard of St. George, as a side note, has an amazing Bb Baritone part... if you have this part, you don't even need the trumpets...

[LoyalTubist]

Do you know the name Harry L. Alford?

He wrote a number of marches, probably his most popular is Purple Carnival, which he wrote for Northwestern University.

Here are some of his marches:

Purple Carnival
Law and Order
March of the Illini
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (with Gene Lockhart)
March of the Steel Men
The Thunder Cloud
Imp


Harry L. Alford (1883-1939)

Gene Lockhart (1891-1957), later a Hollywood movie actor, was the father of actress June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction.) He wrote the song, "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" near the end of World War I. It was very popular for many decades to follow. This is one of the most obvious versions of a popular song turned into a standard march.