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Colonel Bogey is a march written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881-1945), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth. He wrote under th...
Written as a very easy first parade tune, this arrangement features easy brass ranges and optional whistling at the beginning with the flutes and percussion. Solidly scored and easy to learn!
The Mad Major was Alford's first post-war march, written and published in 1921. Like Colonel Bogey, with which the series began, it is cast in a double three-part form, the first of which allows the t...
Kenneth J. Alford (1881-1945) was 6 years into his first Bandmastership when Great Britain declared was on Germany. Alford's response to the one hundred thousand annihilated forces was this Poetic Mar...
