Bugle Call Rag

SKU: CF.BPS120

ISBN 9781491152065. UPC: 680160909568.

An exceptionally clever idea, to combine the standard bugle calls into an easy march for beginning students.  It is something they already know, and can be successful on right away.  We are delighted to welcome composer/educator Chris Ferguson to the Carl Fischer catalog.  He brings a wealth of experience working with beginners that has translated into this wonderful new march for young students.
Reveille March is inspired by the bugle calls found throughout military history.The “Reveille” call is the signal used to awaken the troops for morning roll call and accompanies the raising of the flag. At the conductor’s discretion, the soli sections (measures 29 and 37) may also be performed as solos in reference to the traditional solo bugle call.“To the Color” (measure 49) is used to signal the end of a soldier’s day. It is also used when a full band is not available to render honors and commands all the same courtesies as our National Anthem.

SKU: WN.OR004B

ISBN ISMN 9790570743766.

1.7.16 was commissioned by The Hamilton Flute Band to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, and was premiered in St Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry on 1st July 2016. This new version for flute choir was written for The Woodbridge Flute Choir, Virginia, USA, in 2024. The piece takes some of its ideas from musical elements already connected to the story, from the signalling bugle calls that might have been used in battle, to hints of one of the March tunes that the band still use today.
794,628 lives were lost in the Battle of the Somme, a chilling statistic. These numbers are also woven into the music, colouring the choices of intervals, harmonies and chords, and building the central themes, including the slow march to the trenches, where the uncomfortable juxtaposition of 7ths and 9ths is used as a motif over the solo flute theme before the screeching whistle signal to go over the top.
One of the musical elements central to the piece is the bugle call for Assemble which is used as an enthusiastic call in the opening, then to give unity to the chilling fear of the trenches on the eve of the battle, and finally to lead into the Commemoration of the final section, as those in the Cathedral 100 years later became part of the story as they assembled to commemorate the huge sacrifice made.

SKU: BT.DHP-0981153-140

De aanstekelijke muziek van Benny Goodman was de drijvende kracht achter het swingtijdperk van de jaren dertig. Met de bekende hits Let’s Dance, Stompin' at the Savoy, Moonglow en Sing, Sing, Sing is deze energieke engoed geschreven medley een gepast eerbetoon aan het honderdste geboortejaar van de ‘King of Swing’.

An Benny Goodman, der vor mehr als 100 Jahren in Chicago gebunden wurde, knüpfen sich viele Erinnerungen. Naohiro Iwai widmete dem großen Jazzklarinettisten und Big-Band-Leader eine musikalische Hommage mit einem stilgerechten Medley für Blasorchester aus Memories of You, Don’t Be that Way, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Flying Home, Bugle Call Rag und Sing, Sing, Sing.

Le 30 mai 1909, naissait Chicago, Benjamin David Goodman, clarinettiste, saxophoniste et leader de Big Band. En 1934, Benny Goodman fonde son premier orchestre et lance l’ère du swing. Il sera sacré « roi du swing » au Carnegie Hall de New York en 1938. Il enchantera de son style et de sa sonorité plus de cinquante ans d’histoire du jazz, jusqu’ la fin de sa vie. Interprétez six des plus grands succès du King of Swing : Memories of You, Don’t Be That Way, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Flying Home, Bugle Call Rag et Sing, Sing, Sing.

SKU: HL.14027165

Danish.

REVEILLE RETRAITE for solo trumpetA joint commission between Hakan Hardenberger and Danmarks RadioDedicated to Hakan HardenbergerProgramme note:Everybody knows or has at least heard of the time honoured military bugle calls: Reveille Retraite, the awakening at sunrise the turning in at sunset. In a way it's the UR concept of the nature of the trumpet, an instrument capable of glorious panache as well as sublime, inward looking finesse. My piece is, as indicated in the title, a two fold composition in the form of two contrasting tone poems, each mirroring a fragment of original text, what one could call spiritual appetizers. At the end of chapter 8 of his high spirited Memoirs Hector Berlioz laments the murder of a man he admired, Prince Lichnowsky, who was stabbed to death in Frankfurt in September 1848 by German peasants: Oh, I must get out, walk, run, shout under the open sky! Now, there's a juicy bit of high strung romantic Sturm und Drang for you and the perfect motto for any awakening... Then night fall, Retraite, in which I've drawn upon the early, melancholy poem ALONE by Edgar Allan Poe and taken out one single line as 'subtitle' for this very hushed and withdrawn movement: And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone. I guess it won't hurt to quote the poem in its entirety:From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were I have not seenAs others saw I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all1 lov'd, I lov'd alone.THEN in my childhood in the dawnOf a most stormy life was drawnFrom ev'ry depth of good and illThe mystery which binds me still:From the torrent, or the fountain,From the red cliff of the mountain,From the sun that 'round me roll`dIn its autumn tint of gold From the lightning in the skyAs it pass'd me flying by From the thunder and the storm,And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Beaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.Edgar Allan PoeProgramme note by Poul Ruders, January 2004.