Favorite March(s)?

[ParLawGod]

My top five at the moment (though I do have a lot of favorites).

Who's Who in Navy Blue (Sousa)
The Black Horse Troop (Sousa)
Under the Double Eagle (Wagner)
Old Comrades (Teike)
Gallant Marines (King)

[Dean E]

Aida, Triumphal March
Entry of the Gladiators (Thunder and Blazes)
Guadalcanal March from Victory at Sea
Imperial March & other Star Wars works (John Williams)
Marche Slave
Semper Fidelis
Stars and Stripes Forever
Them Basses

[TexTuba]

Favorite Non-Sousa March:

Cyrus the Great

[ZNC Dandy]

I really love old Prussian Military marches, my favorite of those is Die Koeniggratzer, and Der Grosse Kuerfuersten Reitermarsch
Prokofiev's- March Op.99.
Karl King-Melody Shop, Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, Robinson's Grand Entry
Henry Fillmore-Circus Bee, Rolling Thunder
John C. Heed-In Storm and Sunshine
Meyerbeer- Coronation March from the Prophet (Brass Band Transcription)
and several others, but those are those ones off the top of my head.

[jamsav]

Guys- I am sure that most of you know about this, but if you feel the need to revisit any of these aforementioned great marches , many can be found at http://www.bandmusicpdf.org" target="_blank . Copyrights have expired and this site is the compilation effort of The Royalton , Ohio Community band . Nice job by them to preserve a great deal of our musical heritage . Hey- they are still trying to fill in alot of blanks( missing parts and scores ) , but there library has maybe 1000 complete pieces and it continues to grow- - maybe we can help....jamsav

[fenne1ca]

Celebrate Rotary, for Brass Band. Can't recall the composer.

[ken k]

Just thought af a rare oldie but goodie
National Spirit march by Hummel

Anyone familiar with that one?

[hubert]

Do not forget William Rimmer: most of his marches are ver good.
And.....take Navigation Inn at least for rehearsing
Hubert

[NickJones]

well the whit friday marches will be on us soon....fav marches
viva birkinshaw - william rimmer
honest toil - william rimmer
The Wizard - George Allan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0WOaeV7uNU" target="_blank
The Elephant - J.Ord Hume
Around the World - Alex Owen ( proper belter of a march , written for the 1906 besses world tour and performed before the us president) the march was originally titled the president
the president - william german..another belter

[DonShirer]

It's been over 50 years since I played it, but I fondly remember The Chicago Tribune March by William Chambers.

[ParLawGod]

I forgot a BIG one on my list: "The Conqueror" (Carl Teike). That is an AMAZING march...anyone here ever play it?

[tlyckberg]

On THIS board, this thread should start and end with "March of the Women Marines". Kick butt tuba part, written by a tuba player, chicks in the title. What is there not to love?

Here is a good version but i don't hear anything really "Kick butt" in the tuba part...

That's the right tune. Could be a less than perfect recording or tiny computer speakers, but it is a great tuba part.

Tubas sounded kinda puny and restrained; not like the old Marine Band I knew.

[djwesp]

The Melody Shop.

'nough said. Any march written with the intention of the euphonium part being "too hard to play" is good in my book. That being said, it definitely shows the advancement of players overall since it was written. While fun, it is far from "too hard to play".

[TUbajohn20J]

Army of the Nile

Joyce's 71st

The Viking

Rolling Thunder

[Tubaguyry]

Sousa - Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Sousa - Sound Off!
Rossini - March for Sultan Abdul Medjid
King - The Big Cage
King - Barnum and Bailey's Favorite
Fillmore - Rolling Thunder

[Karl H.]

A little surprised no one mentioned Barber's Commando March... a little too different?

Karl "WAY different" H.

[Alex F]

Laridah Marsch, Max Hempel (1877-1959)
great peformance of this German march on youtube by the Russian Defense Ministry Band. Good shots of the tubas and euphs plus a flute player that reminds me of Comrade Brezhnev

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Im4hQSP3A" target="_blank

[Chuck Jackson]

Laridah Marsch, Max Hempel (1877-1959)
great peformance of this German march on youtube by the Russian Defense Ministry Band.

Anyone else catching the historical irony of this whole thing?


Chuck"wondering"Jackson

[Alex F]

Talk about irony. . .

My dad, a Polish army officer in WWII, spent most of the war in a Nazi POW camp. He played horn in the camp orchestra. He once told me that the Komandant loved to hear Sousa marches, including "Stars & Stripes Forever"

He also told me that everytime the "Horstwessel" was "requested", someone always "forgot" what the key signature was.

[imperialbari]

The closer we approach the human root level, the lesser we see sophistication. This run rather than a march catches me, but it isn’t far above our reptile basic instincts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0kBETseDmQ

And they make a good show emitting insane amounts energy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYOeLEwT0U

Normally they use valve trombones, but here there use slide bones and the bass one displays some balls.

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4k03Pa0DDM

Can’t hear the horns. Doesn’t matter. Still speak to my reptile level.

Klaus