Title | Picadore March, The | |||
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Composer | Sousa, John Philip |
Marshall’s Civic Band Topeka, KS Est’d 1884 |
Number | C-746 |
Type | CB | |||
Date | 1982 | |||
Key | Bb | |||
Arranger | Gore, Harold R. | Length | 0.00 | |
Publisher | Studio Pr | Vocal | No | |
Association | Grade/Difficulty | ?/? | ||
Last Performed | Unknown | |||
Manuscript | No | |||
Style | March | Location | Marshall's Band Library | |
Cataloger | Perry Hartman | |||
Date Cataloged | 06/28/1993 | |||
Notes |
Composed in 1889. "'The Picador' was one of several marches sold outright to the publisher, Harry Coleman, for $35 each. That sum included arrangements for band, orchestra, and piano. The frontispiece of the original sheet music depicts a bullfight scene with a picador in action. If the mild mannered Sousa had seen a bullfight before composing this march, he would surely have chosen another title. After witnessing a bullfight while on vacation in Mexico, he was shocked by what he had seen and thereafter referred to bullfighting as a worthless and unfair sport." The Works of John Philip Sousa pgs. 77-78 Paul E. Bierley Integrity Press 1984 |
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