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March of the Children's Guard

Title:	March of the Children's Guard
Date of Composition:	Copyright © 1997
Level of Difficulty:	High School
Instrumentation:	Wind Band
Performance Time:	4:02
Publisher:	Wingert-Jones Music 11225 Colorado Kansas City, MO 64137-2502 (816)765-6200 or toll-free 800-258-WJMO
Program Notes:	Written in 1997, "March of the Children's Guard" shows a great deal of influence by John Phillip Sousa. The arpeggiated opening trumpet fanfare in the first four measures, followed by the descending unison passage in measures 5 and 6, with the chromatic alteration leading to the dominant, is a vintage Sousa technique. Repeated 16-bar phrases, as found in this piece, are also prevalent in Sousa marches. Bukvich's use of kazoos, tin drums, toy cymbals, and sound flutes later on in the piece are not, however, typical of Sousa. Program Notes extracted from “The Careers and Works of Emerging Composers of Music for the Wind-Band: Discussions with Jack Stamp, Thomas Duffy, Andrew Boysen, Jr. and Daniel Bukvich” by James P. McCrann; edited for content by Susan G. Weaver.
Recordings:	Performed by University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music Wind Ensemble Conducted by Al Gemberling Recording engineer(s): Recording Engineer, Al Gemberling Digital mastering by Digital Sound Mastering, P.K. Northcutt II Real Audio File of March of the Children's Guard - 980 K MP3 of March of the Children's Guard - 3.6 MB Recordings posted: 9/28/2002 All recordings on this site are made available for use by students and music educators. Please be kind to our server and download in moderation.