The Yankee Brass Band
Liner Notes   Cat. No. 80312     Release Date: 1981-01-01

Music From Mid-Nineteenth Century America

The American Brass Quintet Brass Band (on period instruments)

Brass bands flourished in mid-nineteenth century America and were an integral and indispensable part of the social, cultural, and political life of the land. Regimental bands assumed tremendous importance during the Civil War whilst civic bands supplied the bulk of the entertainment in many a small town in the post-bellum years. It was during this period that the march as a genre experienced its greatest musical flowering with the advent of Sousa and his contemporaries. The schottisches, waltzes, polkas, quicksteps and serenades provide a delightful and charming portrait of the time and are sequenced for maximum listening pleasure. The playing, on difficult period instruments, is absolutely spectacular.

American Brass Quintet Brass Band

The Yankee Brass Band

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Track Listing

Arizona Quickstep
John F. Stratton
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Bond's Serenade
Hosea Ripley
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No One To Love
Walter Dignam
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Blondinette Polka
Hosea Ripley
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Mabel Waltz
John F. Stratton
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Helene Schottisch
Walter Dignam
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American Hymn
Hosea Ripley
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Red Stocking Quickstep
Hosea Ripley
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Mockingbird Quickstep
Hosea Ripley
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Memories of Home Waltz
John F. Stratton
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Schottische
Hosea Ripley
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The Moon is Above Us
John F. Stratton
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Brin d'amour Polka
John F. Stratton
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Goodnight My Angel
John F. Stratton
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Fireman's Polka
Hosea Ripley
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