MANUAL FOR FIELD MUSICS, 1935
U.S. Marine Corps
VG. Second Revised edition, 1942. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Some light spotting to cover, and small dab of white paint to front gutter. Lettering on cover and spine faded. Some interior pages lightly creased along bottom, since reflattened, probably from manual being held in an instrument clamp. (No pages torn.) Book still tight overall. Glossy paper throughout, profusely illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and music. 194 pages. Numerous Sousa marches ~ perhaps compiled all together for the first time in this manual. 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.
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. “
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