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Circus Songs - An Annotated Anthology (Paperback)
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Circus Songs - An Annotated Anthology (Paperback)
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Circus Songs: An Annotated Anthology provides musicians and
librarians with the musical scores of 85 circus songs along with
historical annotations. Informative and entertaining, this
collection explores the history of American circus music and
provides some background on circus musicians that will delight and
enchant even the most avid music buff. Circus Songs will help you
appreciate the role of circus music in American culture and will
preserve these songs for future generations to enjoy.Through Circus
Songs, you will discover well-known circus favorites as well as
obscure tunes, including: “Battle of the Winds,” written by
Edward Duble, which was published in 1917 while the author was
performing for the John Robinson Circus “Belford’s” Carnival,
composed by Russell Alexander, a march played outside the sideshow
tents to advertise the marvelous spectacles that could be seen by
paying an additional admission “Bravura,” one of the most
recognizable and most frequently played circus marches, frequently
used for wild animal acts or attractions with a foreign flavor, due
to its exotic sound “Buffalo Bill’s Equestrian March,”
composed by William Paris, written in honor of Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West Show “Con Celerita,” a Spanish term meaning “with a
little velocity,” a fast tempo gallop composed by J. J. Richards
“Kentucky Sunrise,” a two-step that is often used as part of
the circus finale, was created by Karl L. King “Olympia
Hippodrome,” written by Russell Alexander during his employment
with Barnum & Bailey, was usually played during daring feats of
horsemanshipCircus Songs is chock full of entertaining essays to
inform and intrigue you about an era that shaped our culture and
entertained us at circuses all over America. This unique book will
surprise and satisfy even the most zealous music historian with
facts and information on the songs that reflected America’s
spirit and captured a nation’s attention.
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