MANUAL FOR FIELD MUSICS, 1935
U.S. Marine Corps
VG+. An exceptionally clean, tight copy. No edgewear; corners crisp; gilt lettering not bright, but clearly legible and without flaking.
Second Revised edition, 1942. (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942). Glossy paper throughout, profusely illustrated with
photographs, diagrams, and music. 194 pages.
Preface reads as follows: “The purpose of this manual is to supply a complete instruction and reference book for field musics in the U.S.
Marine Corps. Heretofore, there has been no official publication in th Marine Corps in which the rudiments of music and detailed instruction
in drumming, bugling, and fifing were set forth. Neither is there any publication to which a field music can convenintly refer in learning
the various calles used in the Marine Corps and Navy.
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This volume embodies all information of interest to field musics in
the Marine Corps. The rudiments of music and exercises for beginners
set forth herein, have been carefully worked out under the direction
of the leader of the U.S. Marine Band. The calls listed are those
used in the daily routine of a marine post or on board ship. The
marches, sound offs, and inspection pieces selected are those most
commonly used in the Marine Corps. An extensive research has been made
through the Library of Congress, and a number of old quicksteps and the
drum and bugle parts of bband marches written by the late John Philip
Sousa, famous leader of the Marine Band, have been found and recorded.
As the drum and fife were the official instruments on which calls were
beaten and marches played for the first 100 years of the Marine Corps,
and since fifing has been revived by the Fessenden Fifes of the Fourth
Regiemt, a chapter has been devoted to instruction in the this inspiring
form of music and a number of the old Marine Corps fife and drum pieces
have been included."
Numerous Sousa marches ~ apparently compiled all together for the first time in this manual. Includes music for such Marine Corps standards as
SEMPER FIDELIS -- EAGLE, GLOBE & ANCHOR -- FIFTH MARINES' MEDLEY -- THE LEATHERNECK -- ON LAND & SEA -- and SEA SOLDIERS.
$65.00
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