Civil War Music Instruments
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2013
- Explore Civil War Brass Band instruments with Jeff Stockham, one of the historical music consultants on Spielberg's film Lincoln. Stockham demos a range of instruments from fife, over-the-shoulder cornets, alto horn to drums. More at www.makingmusicmag.com/
Video by Drew Roberts
Music: "Tu Che A Deo" from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor"
Tunes heard in this video:
0:00: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band
0:58: “Skyrockets (7th Regiment Drum Corps Quickstep)” - Claudio Grafulla
1:20: “Polonaise: The Last Rose of Summer” - W.V. Wallace, arr. W.E. Gilmore, 25th Massachusetts Regiment Band
1:51: “The Dearest Spot On Earth To Me Is Home” - W.T. Wrighton, arr. from Stratton Military Band Journal
2:04: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band (reprise)
2:32: “Battle Hymn of the Republic” - William Steffe/Julia Ward Howe, arr. Jari Villanueva
3:34: "Reveille” (camp call for “Wake Up”)
3:44: “Chester” - William Billings, 1770, traditional fife tune
3:53: “Army 2/4” drum cadence 
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I mean he obviously isn't a tuba or a percussionist but he played all of the high and middle brass extremely well.
No such thing as middle brass
Only high and low brass exist
trombone and euphonium are part of tenor brass
“He obviously isn’t a tuba.” I agree but It made me laugh how you said he obviously isn’t a tuba.
@@sGSdYgsdGA8fSWrRb2uzpMzzt2ys90 to trombone and euphonium are considered low brass
I agree.
Wow, he's a damn good trumpet player.
starwarsjunkie7777 *cornet
starwarsjunkie7777 its cornet yo!
starwarsjunkie7777 but not a good drummer😂
Actually, they are completely different in construction. Just because you are ignorant to that doesn't mean they have to be quiet ;-)
Matthew Aberer I'm calm. I wasn't the one telling someone to shut up ;-)
hahaha he's got a beautiful melody for every horn except tuba! As a tubist, I understand completely
+Michael Mansourati Haha.... root-4-root-4.... Thanks for checking it out.
+Michael Mansourati, the Eb bass played in this video is not really a tuba, at least not by today's definition of the word. The organology of brass instruments has flugelhorns, euphoniums and the modern tuba grouped together in a family (wide conical bore, dark full sound), and the trumpets, tenorhorns, bass cimbassos, and even trombones grouped together (narrow cylindrical bore, focused bright sound). The (French) horns are in their own group by themselves. What about the cornet then....it is the soprano member of the Saxhorn group (medium conical bore, mellow sound), which these days only includes that Bb cornet.....the other members of the group have disappeared in modern use, but going back to the late 1800s practically all brass instruments used in America, except for the orchestra, were in the Saxhorn group. That is why Civil War bands are comprised exclusively of Saxhorns in their various sizes...Eb cornet, Bb cornet, Eb alto, Bb tenor, Bb baritone/bass, Eb bass (sometimes called Eb tuba for short, but incorrectly).
+youtuuba i didnt expect to see you here!
youtuuba
Kuiper me either
I'm the narrator in this video. I was trained as a French hornist. I play trumpet and its associated doubles, horn, and valve trombone for a living. I'm the first to admit that I'm not a tuba player or a drummer. Showing off chops was not the point of this video, it was to give a basic overview of the instruments used in Civil War brass bands. In my Civil War band and several others, I play Eb soprano cornet (including in the recorded band tracks in this video.) Since everyone's a critic, how about all the drummers and tubists who are carping about my drumming and tuba playing post some videos of themselves playing the solo Eb cornet part, on Civil War rotary valve cornet, from the 26th NC Regiment Band's version of Donizetti's "Tu Che A Dio", or the solo Eb part from the 26th's arrangement of Verdi's "Trovatore Quickstep", and THEN you can make fun of my tuba and snare drum playing. Being a critic is easy. Actually doing the thing is much harder.
The over the shoulder cornet reminds me of the top part of a trombone. Like if you just stuck your mouthpiece in the part with the bell and set the slide aside.
Yeah I used to do this a lot and I would take out the tuning slide and call a low bugle
I love doing that as a trombonist
I'm amazed how good those cornets sound with those 19th-century designs.
dat battle hymn doe
Chaoticx0rd3r it's revelee
Meryck Park he's talking about the song he played on the over the shoulder cornet.
ok
being a percussionist, i get how hard brass is.
and i know how hard percussion is for them.
@Gocoogs01
I cried in Percussion class in college. I could NOT understand how the noise the instructor was making happen, happened! I think I am still confused. :-)
Gorgeous tone quality on all horns except the tuba. Modern instruments are so good I didn't know one could get such great sounds out of the older designs.
3:33 I hear this tune in the morning at boy scout Summer camp
Alex Kinch every single one
Do you hear that in Sabbatis?
Which camp do you go to? I go to camp Powhatan
Revelee
Reveille
Awesome playing! Fire your cameraman!
Haha I was thinking the same things!
Oh God please do!!!!
I kept hearing in my head, Focus you Fak!
It’s not his fault it’s the crappy cameras fault
He wants to keep it traditional by using a camera from he 1850s
Very interesting, he obviously isn't a percussionist though lol
Kyla M. I used to be a woodwind now ima percussionist. (From oboe to snare and bass drums)
Champion Ez I respect you I'm also a percussionist
Or a tuba player
Nevermore ' I was going to say the same thing as you!
Maybe that's just how those percussionists did it back in the 1800's 😂
2:36 I knew that the bell of my trombone had to be an instrument!
You have a concert pitched bugle horn and a slide trombone all for the low price of *yes.*
As a cornet player its fun to see how the intrument used to look, I already knew about the standard rotary valve cornet, but the over the shoulder intruments is new to me
If you got a bunch of spare money you can get a Wessex Eb Bass Saxhorn/Tuba that is over the shoulder like that, it converts from shoulder to upright too so you could actually use it mostly normally.
Tunes heard in this video:
00:00: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band
00:58: “Skyrockets (7th Regiment Drum Corps Quickstep)” - Claudio Grafulla
01:20: “Polonaise: The Last Rose of Summer” - W.V. Wallace, arr. W.E. Gilmore, 25th Massachusetts Regiment Band
01:51: “The Dearest Spot On Earth To Me Is Home” - W.T. Wrighton, arr. from Stratton Military Band Journal
02:04: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band (reprise)
02:32: “Battle Hymn of the Republic” - William Steffe/Julia Ward Howe, arr. Jari Villanueva
03:34: "Reveille” (camp call for “Wake Up”)
03:44: “Chester” - William Billings, 1770, traditional fife tune
03:53: “Army 2/4” drum cadence
@spyshousakusen
Wow, thank you! I couldn't place several of them! Very nice of you! 🙂
I want those over the shoulder instruments
Man, i am a guitarrist and i want one too
Me too
Lol 10/10 tuba playing mate
PancakePredator I was so mad when he only played four notes. Tubas can play melody too
Hey mom look No hands example bare necessities
You can tell he's not a tuba player
@@tylermaral3797 Yea but he can't
That reveille was crisp
GIVE ME MY CHEETOS BACK(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
2:20 I tried doing that with my trombone
Good idea. Lemme try that real quick....
Same
I tried doing that long before I saw this video. Sounded awful.
Same
works tho.
M8 10/10 IGN Field Drum. Nailed it. Lol
I played with the 37th Ga. Volunteer Infantry Band under Dr. Clyde Noble (now 95 years old). Good job!
that alto horn sounds wonderful in your capable hands! thank you for uploading this
The alto horn sounds beautiful
3:43 admit, it reminded anyone of their painful childhood of playing recorder.
That gentleman is awesome ! I don't know how to express his ability to play all those musical instruments flawlessly . Good job you got there sir ! Keep it up !
I wish I can play at least one of those instruments although they almost have no relevance in today's modern pop music .
Thank you Frazier for recommending my comment . Are you happened to be a musician too , like this gentlemen ?
Well , I'm not , though .
Thank you Bartender Bobby for recommending my comment !
The man is awesome !
HELMY ABDULLAH ive seen flawlesser than that tuba playing
HELMY ABDULLAH well you can still hear trumpets somewhat fairly in today’s music
percussion is not your thing i can see
Over the shoulder instruments: the first car stereo!
Thank you so much for sharing this and clarifying about the way instruments were during the civil war era I always wondered about that the way instruments actually sounded
Great playing and review on those old brass. thanks
So interesting, and they sound great, especially the cornets.
Great historical perspective. What great sounds from all those conical bore instruments. I wish community brass bands would make a comeback!
As part of someone’s senior project, a Civil War band came in and played a bunch of traditional music with these instruments! It was so cool.
My great-grandfather was a 17 year old drum major (musician) with the New York 104th in the Civil War. When I was in the Navy from 1958-1962 I was also a rated musician, playing trombone in Washington, DC and the former aircraft carrier Forrestal around the Mediterranean. I also agree this instrumentalist has beautiful tone and excellent technique.
Nice and a beautiful tone!
Love the rotary valves. Awesome.
Camera man needs to get fired
Why
Xx_typer_xX it’s very shaky
I agree it was in and out of focus and very shaky
Very interesting! Having seen the band, it's nice to see the instruments individually.
So you all watch a free video by an expert and versatile musician, which tells us a lot about civil war music, and all you can do is complain about his drumming, which is probably authentic for the times, and his cameraman, who just may be a little shaky at one point. You all need to go back in time, serve in either side in the Civil War, experience a little hell on earth, and man up.
Informative and interesting but also this man has such an amazing, buttery sound!
I‘m in my British village‘s band! 😊😊💙
Very informative !
For those of you asking what the tunes are, here you go:
0:10: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band
0:58: “Skyrockets (7th Regiment Drum Corps Quickstep)” - Claudio Grafulla
1:20: “Polonaise: The Last Rose of Summer” - W.V. Wallace, arr. W.E. Gilmore, 25th Massachusetts Regiment Band
1:51: “The Dearest Spot On Earth To Me Is Home” - W.T. Wrighton, arr. from Stratton Military Band Journal
2:04: "Aria: Tu Che A Deo” - from Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor”, arr. 26th NC Regiment Band (reprise)
2:32: “Battle Hymn of the Republic” - William Steffe/Julia Ward Howe, arr. Jari Villanueva
3:34: "Reveille” (camp call for “Wake Up”)
3:44: “Chester” - William Billings, 1770, traditional fife tune
3:53: “Army 2/4” drum cadence
Thank you Jeff!
Wow he plays very good on each instrument
Michael Schuchert exept the drum but he is an exceptional musician
Lovely tone Jeff
This guy has great tone with the high ranged instruments
Man, dig that crazy backwards-facing over-the-shoulder E Flat tuba!
As a lifelong Bb Trumpet student, I had the interesting pleasure of playing some of these older horns once from the 1850's-through circa 1930-the Cornets & later Trumpets pitched in Bb were considerably smaller in terms of bore and bell size-(one Trumpet MPC receiver couldn't fit a modern era MPC in it) the bell flairs were barely 4" and with a really shallow cup were bright as the Sun and easy to play "upstairs" on however, modern era Trumpets (1940's-Current) are louder due to larger bore and bell sizes, flairs, etc. The MPC's from back then were virtually bird baths though and not comfortable to play on.
Nice demo!
Amazing!
Wow he must be 200 years old
jason zipprich you're kidding right?
Never liked you no he is 200 don't you know the oldest man is like 400
Cant yall tell from the profile pic hes a troll.
Important Person bro yes
Actually the oldest person alive is a woman who is 117
Outstanding! 😳
Very good man!!
Luv the over shoulder cornet
Wow♡ Thank you for this♡♡♡♡
I love the history of musical instruments
We still have those brass bands everywhere in the UK. 👍 I play the alto horn, though we call it a tenor horn.
When you started playing battle hymn of the republic I was like all excited for some reason
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back to another episode of why is this in my recommended
Holy shit his tone quality is amazing
Wow. Quality sounds and quite "in-tune." High tech for the times.
Jeff is a great guy.
As a percussionist the form just shoot me great bugle playing
The
Music Mackie me cried
Your tone on the cornets is really good! I'm a trumpet player, and I would really like to get to play a cornet at some point. :-)
Lovely
The alto horn looks like a mini euphonium
Does anybody here know the name of the song that he played on the fife? It's my current high schools Alma Mater! I'd love to know the name. I play piccolo in the marching band there.
a small piece from valley forge march (seventh grade level)
Bands Nerdiness Thank you so so so much!!!
no problem! i mean it is not all valley forge march, but a part of it is...
Actually, the piece is Chester (Overture for Band) by William Schuman. Valley Forge March is actually quoting Chester although I think it's played in a different key.
Too bad I hate piccolo
i played one of the Eb tubas with the bell facing back, in a reenactment band, several years ago. it was fun, but it was a difficult instrument to control.
+nworb ekim As a person who has access to many OTS instruments, and as a tuba player (and the Eb bass Saxhorn is not really a 'tubea' by today's definition) I have come to realize that many of them are not playing at their best because they are worn out or just plain broken in some way. People have a tendency to get an old Eb bass from the Civil War period, and if the valves work they assume all is well. When I bought my first one, it seemed to work and play pretty well, and other experienced players thought it played well too. But I had it gone over thoroughly by a qualified brass repair person, and he found MANY small leaks and micro-cracks in the brass, and the valves had lots of air slipping past them. After an extensive and expensive set of leak remediation treatments/repairs, it was amazing how much better, and in tune, it played. I think few such instruments get this degree of attention. But even then, any bass Saxhorn sounds pretty thin and feeble by comparison to the true tubas that we are familiar with these days.
It's the old version of a Contra😂
We use similar type of cornets in Sweden, I play the Eb-cornet myself!
Every other instrument: beautiful tune
Over the shoulder tuba: BARF BARF BARF BRAF BARF BARF BARF
2:30 Blood Upon the Risers !
"He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright, he checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight, he had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar, you ain't gonna jump no more."
I instantly recognized it lmao.
Very interesting
1:20 I know that song! Last Rose of Summer
YEEEEEESSS!!!! Did you hear it first from violin or song?
Midori.
Black Knight it's in my trumpet arban's book
one of the song is battle hymn of the Republic,I played it when I was 8
Wow he has wonderful Emboucher
I wish the over the shoulder Coronet was in brass beginner band
Neighborhood cat ye I would replace it with a trombone
Haha beginniner noob
Hold on am I the only one that got recommended this video 6 years after it was posted
I don’t play tuba or literally any brass instrument but this man definitely doesn’t sound like he plays tuba, but everything else sounds great!
I just realized you were playing the intro to Chester Overture on the fife
omg come to brazil!!
His drumming holds up a lot better than my horn playing.
良い音だ
I used to play percussion and fife now i just do natural horn which is a nonvalved predisecor to the french horn and bugle and that's it
Although spelled cornet, it is corn-it, not cor-net. The cornett (two Ts) is a completely different instrument in the same family from several centuries earlier.
Alex Paulsen Americans pronounce things differently
@@killyourself9260 You mean incorrectly?
@@Metal-Possum No I mean differently
What's the tune he played on the Eb cornet?
Battle hymn of the republic.
Thank you!
+abcd efg
No problem, you're welcome!
@@Socksshoesandhats I don't believe that's correct, he plays that on the sax horn.
Is the alto horn also called the peck horn?
It is, or at least was. BTW in British brass bands it is called tenor horn.
Is it the case that Eb alto (called tenor in the UK) horns are rare in America? Piston versions of the first three instruments are in every town brass band in the UK.
He is really good at trumpet
Except they are Saxhorns regardless of whether they are OTS configuration or not, so the spoken commentary is a bit misleading in that regard.
What's the tune he plays on the small over the shoulder instrument?? I've heard it before I just can't think of the name! Very catchy and happy
I play tenor sax what is your take on brass instruments in play with reeds that costs so much?
One of brass instruments looked Creepy like the Tubas But the Trumpet part was cool the Wake up call 📞
Question, did they ever use clarinets in a military capacity or was it just brass, percussion and piccolo?
Does anyone have sheet music for blood on the risers for a Bb Trumpet?
Woah
2:31
For anyone wanting to buy a cheap fife, you can buy them on amazon for like $10
i like piccolos more
As a bugler, I never went so far as to refer to the sounds I made as "music!"