Colonel Bogey brass quintet

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  • Опубліковано 11 тра 2021
  • "Colonel Bogey," written in 1914 by a British Army bandmaster, Frederick J. Ricketts, under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, is one of the world's most familiar marches. It's probably best known as the theme music for the 1957 film "The Bridge On The River Kwai," in which British POWs in a Japanese labor camp in Thailand whistled it on their way to work.
    But it had been previously applied in other ways. In World War II Britain, it was sung as a song of defiance against the Nazis with the lyric, "Hitler has only got one ball." The American Women's Army Corps used it as a spirit song: "Duty is calling you and me."
    This arrangement is true to the original except in two respects: It eliminates a lot of repeats, shortening the performance time to about 2 minutes, and rekeys it a step higher into more friendly key signatures. It's written for two trumpets, horn, baritone TC and tuba. The baritone part is a soaring counter-melody that just doesn't quite work on trombone.
    Score and parts are available for a modest price at halleonard.com. Search on my name (Will Corbin) for the entire collection.

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