Music of the Civil War | 
 enlarge | Artists: Americus Brass Band, B. Holmes, W.l. Hobbs, Hosea Ripley, Walter Kittridge, D.l. Downing, George Frederick Root, Gioachino Rossini, Anonymous, James P. Carrell, W.k. Batchelder, C.v. Wallace, Henry Russell, Patrick S. Gilmore, Stephen Foster, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Giacomo Meyerbeer
Label: Summit(Classical)
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 79314
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 099402130125
EAN: 0099402130125
ASIN: B0000038IY
Release Date: February 2, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | When the Cruel War Is over and Hoist up the Flag Quick Step - American Brass Band, Holmes, Billy | | • | Americus Quick Step - American Brass Band, Hobbs, W.L. | | • | Fireman's Polka - American Brass Band, Hosea Ripley Music | | • | Tenting on the Old Campground - American Brass Band, Kittredge, Walter | | • | Dixie's Land Medley Quick Step - American Brass Band, Downing, David L. | | • | Battle Cry of Freedom and Kingdom Coming Quick Step - American Brass Band, Root, G. | | • | Excerpt - American Brass Band, | | • | Sumter Light Guard March - American Brass Band, | | • | Bonnie Eloise Quick Step - American Brass Band, | | • | Amazing Grace - American Brass Band, Newton, John | | • | Glory Hallelujah Grand March - American Brass Band, Batchelder, W.K. | | • | Scenes That Are Brightest/In Happy Moments Quick Step - American Brass Band, Wallace, C.V. | | • | Kazoodie Ko Whirl Overture - American Brass Band, Downing, David L. | | • | Woodman, Spare That Tree - American Brass Band, Russell, Henry | | • | Fireman's Quick Step - American Brass Band, | | • | When Johnny Comes Marching Home - American Brass Band, Lambert, Louis | | • | Civil War Folk Medley/Oh, Suzanna/Garry Owen/Jordan Am a Hard Road - American Brass Band, Foster, Stephen | | • | Coronation March - American Brass Band, Meyerbeer, Giacomo |
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| Customer Reviews:
Authenric Music with traditional instruments. September 17, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For those of you who enjoy the music, as it was sung and played during the Civil War, this recording is a "must!" J.A. McA.
Living history July 30, 1999
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
So shoot me. I like bagpipe music and I like fife and drum recordings and I like brass bands. Recently cruisin' the Internet brought me to the website of a company called Summit Records out in Arizona; and my eye was caught by the title (DCD 126) with a group calling itself The Americus Brass Band. I obtained a copy post haste and I want to all to know about it with equal rapidity. There is just short of 55 minutes of Civil War tunes played in a style that is "historically accurate, right down to the high military pitch and the clicking of the rotary valves on the original antique instruments employed" (as the notes tell us). The history of the band is available in those notes, so let me just dwell on the "music that still produces feelings of humor, joy, sadness, and patriotic pride." Well, what music does not produce at least one of those?--and I am not entirely sure there was anything about the Civil War of which we on either side should be particularly proud. But Sing a Song of Suffering seems to be an eternal way of making the best of a rotten situation during war time; and this CD is replete with such memories as "Tenting Tonight," "Amazing Grace," "Woodman, Spare That Tree," and even a little bit of the "William Tell Overture" and a Meyerbeer opera! In short, this is not the expected line up of soldier songs but selections that are "typical of that which might have been played by a group such as the Americus Brass band." I love it. Give it a try, please.
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