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Band Music from the Benjamin H.
Grierson Collection
Edited by Lavern J. Wagner
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ISBN 0-89579-390-3 |
(1998) xxiii+167 pp. |
$65.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-390-4
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While noted in Civil War history as the cavalry colonel
who led Grierson's Raid, before the Civil War Benjamin H. Grierson was
a musician and leader of bands in the Midwest. His musical activity extended
from 1846, when he established his own band in Youngstown, Ohio, into the
1850s, with his musical organizations acclaimed in Jacksonville and Springfield,
Illinois. Grierson's collection of two manuscript sets of band books and
a manuscript of full scores for band from the 1840s are the earliest substantial
collections known for an American band. This edition presents a selection
of works from Grierson's collection of band music, which traces the evolution
of the American brass band, its music, and its instrumentation, in the
years preceding the Civil War.
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