The Civil War: Its Music And Its Sounds

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The Civil War: Its Music And Its Sounds is a work by the American conductor , composer and music teacher Frederick Fennell from 1962, which originally appeared on two LPs in the Mercury Living Presence series. It deals with the civil war .

Emergence

Inspired by WC Storrick's book The Battle of Gettysburg , Frederick Fernell decided in 1956 to set the event of the American Civil War to music as a classic total work of art with the help of historians Harold L. Peterson and Charles L. Dufor. The music recordings were made in December 1960 and May 1962 at the Eastman Theater , Rochester , New York, the effect recordings in October 1960 in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania and in December 1960 in West Point , New York. The recording was made with a historically adequate orchestra and using historical original musical instruments, as well as with the traditionally usual position of the instruments.

In addition to popular and popular military music pieces, Fernell recorded traditional military signals and orders conveyed by trumpeters and drummers, as well as the noises when loading and firing individual original weapons from the civil war. For the part of the historical processing, noises from the soldiers' camp and the fighting were recorded with the help of costumed actors. By including the actors and riders in the correct costumes, Fernell wanted to achieve the greatest possible attention to detail.

The recordings were composed of up to 93 individual tracks, and were saved on 35mm magnetic tape, which at that time provided the greatest possible dynamics and the widest frequency spectrum.

Publications

The recordings appeared in the Mercury series Living Presence in 1962 as a 2-LP edition with a 24-page booklet in both a mono and a stereo version.

For the CD release from 1990, the already mixed 12.7mm tapes had to be used for most of the recordings, as the whereabouts of the 35mm tapes is unclear.

For unknown reasons, the publication date is incorrectly given as 1958 in some sources.

Contributors

  • Conductor: Frederik Fennell
  • Speaker: Martin Gabel
  • Musicians: Eastman Wind Ensemble , Boyde Hoode ( horn ), The Port Royal Band, Regiment Band of the 26th North Carolina
  • Authors: Harold L. Peterson (historian and author of various books on historical firearms) and Charles L. Dufor (historian and journalist)
  • military adviser: Gerald C. Stowe

Fort Sumter To Gettysburg - Part 1

Band Music of the Union Troops

  • Hail To The Chief
  • Listen To The Mocking Bird
  • Palmyra Scottish
  • Hail Columbia
  • Freischütz Quickstep
  • parade
  • Port Royal Galop
  • La Marseillaise

Band Music of the Confederate Troops

Field Music of the Union and Confederate Troops

Camp, Garrison And Field Calls For Fifes And Drums

  • The Girl I Left Behind
  • The recruiting sergeant
  • Jefferson and Liberty
  • Old 1812
  • Carry me back
  • Liverpool Hornpipe
  • Newport
  • Garry Owen

Cavalry Bugle Signals

  • The General
  • Boots and Saddles
  • To horse
  • Assembly
  • To arms
  • To The Standard (Parade Style)
  • March
  • The Change
  • Rally
  • Reveille
  • Stable call
  • Watering call
  • Breakfast
  • Assembly of Guard
  • Orders
  • Assembly Of Buglers
  • Retreat
  • Fatigue Call
  • Dinner call
  • Distributions
  • Drill call
  • Officers call
  • Common Step (Parade Style)
  • Cease Firing
  • Officers take place
  • Sick call
  • Tattoo (parade style)
  • Quick March

The Sounds of Conflict: Fort Sumter to Gettysburg

by Chales L. Dufour, speaker Martin Gabel

Gettysburg to Appomattox - Part 2

Introduction

by Martin Gabel

Band Music of the Union Troops

  • Twinkling Stars Quickstep
  • O Kentucky, Kentucky
  • Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  • Un Ballo in Maschera Quickstep
  • St. Patrick's Day in the Morning
  • Grafulla's Quickstep
  • Gary Owen
  • Cavalry Quickstep
  • Storm galop

Band Music of the Confederate Troops

  • 26th Regiment Quickstep
  • Lulu's Gone
  • Tramp, tramp
  • Juanita
  • Carry Me Back (to Old Virginny's Shore)

Field Music of the Union and Confederate Troops

Bugle Singmals For The Service Of Skirmishers

  • Forward
  • Stop
  • To the left
  • To the right
  • About
  • Rally on Chief
  • Trot
  • Gallo
  • Commence Fire
  • Diperse
  • Charge-Right
  • Charge-Left
  • Recall
  • Retreat

Drum calls

  • Drummer's Call (I)
  • Drummer's Call (II)
  • Assembly
  • Long roll

Camp And Field Duty Calls For Fifes And Drums

  • Drill call
  • Guard Mount
  • Retreat
  • Surgeon's Call
  • Adjutant's call
  • Tattoo
  • Assembly
  • Fatigue

The Appomattox Bugle

  • Batch
  • Assembly
  • Taps

Songs of the Union and Confederate Soldiers

Firearms of the Civil War

by Harold L. Peterson

The Sounds of Conflict: Gettysburg to Appomattox

by Chales L. Dufour, speaker Martin Gabel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liner Notes "The Civil War Part 1" 1962 by Frederick Fernell, also CD Re-Issue pages 7 to 24
  2. ↑ See liner notes of the release of the sound carrier, and text / image on page 33 in the CD booklet
  3. ↑ The Story of Mercury Living Presence , Speakers Corner.de, accessed October 13, 2018
  4. ↑ List of publications on discogs.de , accessed on October 13, 2018
  5. ↑ Liner Notes CD Booklet, page 52