Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857-1922) was born in Craftsbury, Vermont,
and started his music career at the age of nine as a vocalist and
bellringer. In spite of never having had formal music lessons he
became a successful cornet player, trombonist and composer. He
moved to Boston in 1880, became solo cornet player in the Boston
Theater, and traveled with the Bostonians, an opera company, for
nine years, and later played with the Germania Band. He eventually
settled in New Hampshire, where he directed several city bands. It
is believed Bagley started composing the National Emblem in 1902
while on a train tour with his band, but was dissatisfied with its
ending and threw the score out. Fortunately, some members of his
band (the Keene, New Hampshire, City Band) retrieved it and
secretly rehearsed the score in the baggage car, surprising him
with a performance of the work in their next concert. Bagley later
revised the work and it was first published in 1906. The first
recording of it was made in 1908 by the band of Arthur Pryor, on
the Victor Talking Machine Company label. It has since appeared in
more than one dozen published editions. The National Emblem, which
features an excerpt of "The Star Spangled Banner," deservedly
became the most famous of Bagley's marches, and a standard of the
American march repertoire. It is widely played in Independence Day
celebrations, and is used by the US military for presenting and
retiring the colors. John Philip Sousa, when asked to name the
three most effective street marches ever written named two of his
own works as the first two, and National Emblem as the third. This
new edition by Richard W. Sargeant Jr. remains true to the
composer's original orchestration, omitting the bloated extra
instrumentation which was inserted by publishers over the years. As
with the others in this series, it is designed to offer band
directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved
authoritative editions prepared from the primary sources using the
composer's original instrumentaion, which is sometimes markedly
different from that found in bands today.
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