The Melody Shop - Karl King on 6/4 Miraphone BBb Tuba

[Kontrabasstuba]

Hello together,
ok. I think i will come back to my Miraphone rotary BBb Tuba. I like it and the sound is fantastic...

The Elektra F-Tuba is great too. Both Instruments are from the Band. The Adams E1 Euphonium is my own.

I love this march...

[Three Valves]

[bloke]

To American ears, German marches - mostly - sound like German marches, British marches - mostly - sound like British marches...but - with American marches - we (perhaps just I - and perhaps I'm presuming other Americans...??) are distracted by our familiarity with American marches and mostly notice the styles of the individual American composers.

To a Deutscher, are "most all American marches" identifiable as "American" ?

I enjoyed your rendition, very much. I've never much been drawn to that march (though so many others love it), but - in spite of that - really enjoyed hearing your reduction version, and listened to the entire thing.

[Kontrabasstuba]

To American ears, German marches - mostly - sound like German marches, British marches - mostly - sound like British marches...but - with American marches - we (perhaps just I - and perhaps I'm presuming other Americans...??) are distracted by our familiarity with American marches and mostly notice the styles of the individual American composers.

To a Deutscher, are "most all American marches" identifiable as "American" ?

I enjoyed your rendition, very much. I've never much been drawn to that march (though so many others love it), but - in spite of that - really enjoyed hearing your reduction version, and listened to the entire thing.

Yes, for me (and many other Germans) hear the American march sound. The drums sounding different, articulation and of course the arrangements.

I like that. But i like the Swedish, Austian, Italian Spanish etc. Marches too... Same idea, but all are so different.

[bloke]

Many Americans blurt out "Sousa" as ~the~ composer of "typical American marches", but I believe (biased, because I really like Fillmore's marches...??) that I would blurt out "Fillmore". I believe his marches can be related/"likened to" to more other American march composers' styles.

(If you'll allow me to drag this thread off in a tangent...??) I've always considered this (nope: NOT composed by Henry Fillmore) to be one of the more odd (yet identifiably "American") marches...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_L._Alford

..."odd" because the low brass carry so much of the weight, the trumpets (other than towards the end) are mostly only used for effect (fanfares), and - stuck in the middle - is a no-percussion woodwind chorale...which (oddly/astonishingly) creates tension and leads into one of the climacteric portions of the march. Even the beginning is odd, as the opening phrase ends with "whup-boom" - rather than a flurry of notes leading into the "A" section. (Our high school band memorized this march, and marched in a couple of parades playing it...Times and music - today - are different...and I've said enough...other than I believe some Americans play some European - British, etc. - marches too fast...either because those particular Americans believe that "all marches should be performed @ 120 per minute" or simply "because they can".)

[jtm]

Do circus marches have national characters, too?

Unrelated: does that euphonium have the nifty short-throw valves like the one Mark just got?

[Kontrabasstuba]

Do circus marches have national characters, too?

Unrelated: does that euphonium have the nifty short-throw valves like the one Mark just got?

It's a "normal" one. No short action.

[Three Valves]

I appreciate them all but….

German marches are too serious.

English marches have too mush finesse.

American marches kick too much ass!! (It that’s possible )

[bloke]

German marches are too serious.

I dunno...The "Hogan's Heroes March" seems to offer forth an optimistic sort of tone.

[Three Valves]

German marches are too serious.

I dunno...The "Hogan's Heroes March" seems to offer forth an optimistic sort of tone.

I never knew there were lyrics.

[hubert]

And what about this type of march?



Hubert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bE3aONVHQ

[hubert]

And, yes, Daniel: marvellous sound and ensemble.
Hubert

[Heavy_Metal]

And what about this type of march?



Hubert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bE3aONVHQ

Never heard that one before- thanks for sharing!