What are you favorite marches featuring tuba?

[David Richoux]

There is a late 1800s PD set of charts for the "Helicon Schottische" by J.H. Woods that Klauss Bjerre has reworked here.
He also posted a Midi recording of it on the same page - sounds a bit like a march.

(an old Tubenet post about it here.)

[Sandlapper]

Them Basses by G. H. Huffine ... Not Sousa, not all that hard but was fun to play. Nice little solo in the trio. Course we played it when marching so a little slower tempo....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdsfAmKs7p0" target="_blank" target="_blank

[imperialbari]

There is a late 1800s PD set of charts for the "Helicon Schottische" by J.H. Woods that Klaus Bjerre has reworked here.
He also posted a Midi recording of it on the same page - sounds a bit like a march.

(an old Tubenet post about it here.)

I must admit I hadn’t thought of the HS as a march, as I perceive it have a bit more lightness to it than a march (I would have used the word swing, if that hadn’t given jazz associations, which I do not hear in this music).

In the 10-piece version, which is the latest and best setting, I indicated half note = 96 from the way I heard the music, as there is no tempo indication in the original beyond the title reference to a popular dance form. Reading David’s posting made me remember that this tempo to my knowledge is the marching tempo of the Scottish pipe bands. But that was not the way I thought back when I made the 96 indication.

Washington Post is another sample of a march being closely related to a dance. The legend reaching my ears says that WP started out as a two-step rather than a march.

IMSLP now holds the Icking archives, where I originally uploaded the HS versions. During the transfer the brass band version has been indicated as being for brass ensemble. Slightly confusing.

Klaus

[imperialbari]

I have a very mixed relationship with German military marches. Partly because they were grossly abused by especially one insane political ideology (actually two of these). Partly because they traditionally are played in a not very elegant musical fashion.

One very old sample certainly had no tuba line,when it was first performed. Yet the very simple and still unique descending tuba line from the now used standard arrangement was what caught me when i first heard it 50 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0RVcakHd4

Klaus

[peter birch]

Was that a jab at Salvation Army Brass repertoire?

Absolutely not, I am an active member of the Salvation Army, and play a lot of this repertoire, and it is fantastic music to play. The marches I mentioned all have technically challenging tuba parts that are fun to play

[imperialbari]

Doc, I also like Mosch and Hütter. But then they play(ed) the traditional German repertory so extremely more elegant than I used to hear it in German street bands. The reason is fairly obvious, as the both have backgrounds a jazz trombonists in the Stuttgart radio big band. Mosch laid out the lines even if he most often had a couple of his sidemen writing the arrangements, which represent great cunning in the voicing. Mosch added to the less brash sound by making his band heavy in flugelhorns and in Tenorhörner/Baritone. Only two trombones and one trumpet in the touring band (more in the studio). The trumpet hen had a very prominent role in playing the traditional German counter cavalry trumpet calls.

Mosch in some ways was a funny guy. He talked to his band during performances. From one TV transmission I remember him being dissatisfied with a crescendo into a forte: Meine Herren! Soll das ein Forte sein?

Hütter has cut the band in size, but has an immensely efficient and still very beautiful duo of Tenorhörner with himself on top of the thirds.

Klaus

[Frank Byrne]

A sentimental favorite, Alford's "The Standard of St. George" which starts off with the melody in the tubas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVS7q6suiQ

ANY march played well has an important tuba part.

A few other favorites:
SOUSA: Gallant Seventh
SOUSA: Solid Men to the Front
GOLDMAN: Chimes of Liberty
SOUSA: Rifle Regiment
BAGLEY: National Emblem
ALFORD: By Land and Sea
CHAMBERS: Boys of the old Brigade

etc.

[Ace]

I prefer American marches, but this European march is also on my favorites list. This particular performance certainly shows the spirited effect a march can have on a crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIIqUt6 ... re=related" target="_blank

Ace

[ken k]

I prefer American marches, but this European march is also on my favorites list. This particular performance certainly shows the spirited effect a march can have on a crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIIqUt6 ... re=related" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Ace

that was spectacular!!!! you cant help but smile while you watch it!!!! thank you so much for posting that. You made my evening!!!!

ken k

[ken k]

I prefer American marches, but this European march is also on my favorites list. This particular performance certainly shows the spirited effect a march can have on a crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIIqUt6 ... re=related" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Ace

that was spectacular!!!! you cant help but smile while you watch it!!!! thank you so much for posting that. You made my evening!!!!over 400 bandsmen (and women)!!!

ken k

[TubaRay]

Nice! And a lot of good stuff when following the links, too.

[OldEli-YC55]

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned Paul Lavalle's "Band of America" march.

A few others:
Under the Double Eagle
Purple Pageant
E Pluribus Unum

[Chuck Jackson]

Cyrus the Great

And one for Wade from the days at the SOM: Invictus. Still my favorite march.

Chuck"who learned to double tongue by sitting next to a skinny kid from Texas blowing the absolute crap out of a Yamaha 641"Jackson

[P@rick]

I prefer American marches, but this European march is also on my favorites list. This particular performance certainly shows the spirited effect a march can have on a crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIIqUt6 ... re=related" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Ace

that was spectacular!!!! you cant help but smile while you watch it!!!! thank you so much for posting that. You made my evening!!!!

ken k

It was indeed awesome! I was marching there together with 450 (Andre's orchestra not included) brass players.
My seconds of fame is at 2:25 (the guy with the Yamaha YEB-321)

[sloan]

I don't understand the question. *ALL* marches feature the tuba!

[hup_d_dup]

Marche et Cortége from La Reine de Saba (1862) by Charles Gounod. Big lower brass parts throughout but especially towards the end. Not surprisingly, sounds better played by band than by orchestra.

[Juggernaut04]

1st Movement of 2nd Suite in F by Holst. Euph solo is the best!