CIVIL WAR MUSIC SERIES

Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North and the South during the Civil War. Original sheet music, antique instruments. Civil War Band Music makes available examples of a brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century.

While Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular singers at Celtic and maritime music. Less is more seems to have been the operating theory behind the music, which makes it more enduring as a listening experience - subtlety being a hallmark of the music - and a strong tug on the conscience and the intellect. An exhibit celebrating the range of music popular before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War. Music of the Civil War, Stephen Foster, and the American 19th Century. There's also some representation of spirituals, most notably 'We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder.' There are some full-band performances here ('Yankee Doodle,' 'Parade') and a few tunes featured in more than one incarnation (most notably 'Marching Through Georgia'), but the overall thrust of this soundtrack is toward the small-scale and intimate in terms of sound and arrangements - it's a far cry from the mostly upbeat Civil War song compilations that appeared in the late '50s and the start of the 1960s, in the run up to the war's centenary. Exploring the conflictвЂ™s varied soundtrack, from patriotic marches to haunting ballads, offers a window to the spirit, story, and emotion of a traumatic time in American history.

CIVIL WAR MUSIC SERIES

More a multi-artist compilation than an actual 'soundtrack' in the formal sense, the album is filled with low-key highlights from the series - Jay Ungar's 'Ashokan Farewell' is the most familiar of the material that was new to most listeners, but it was surrounded by fare such as 'Battle Cry of Freedom,' 'Bonnie Blue Flag,' 'Dixie,' 'Hail Columbia,' and 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' which will certainly be known, at least by memory, to anyone who attended school in the United States before 1967 or so. Even so, wars have historically inspired and even required music, and the Civil War (186165) was no different. Elektra/Nonesuch scored one of the biggest successes of the classical specialty label's history with this soundtrack to the Ken Burns public television series The Civil War.

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