American Music 1850-1870. Claudio S. Grafulla (1810-1880) - Captain Shepherd's Quickstep (1850-1854) | Текст песни

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"Captain Shepherd's Quickstep". By Claudio S. Grafulla.

This arrangement is from the manuscript band books of the Manchester Cornet Band (founded in 1854), second set, no. 120, in the Walter Dignam Collection at the Manchester Historic Association, Manchester, N.H. The castanet part, not in the Manchester books, appears in the published piano arrangement (Philadelphia: Beck & Lawton, 1850). Drum and piccolo parts, also absent in the Manchester version, have been taken, with minor emendations, from the arrangement in Squire's Centennial Collection of Band Music, or New Olio No. 3 (Cincinnati: Squire, 1876).

Of Grafulla, Col. Emmons Clark writes (Emmons Clark, History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806-1889 [New York: The Seventh Regiment, 1890], 2:289-90):

"He was born in the Island of Minorca in 1810, and came to this country in 1838. He soon occupied a prominent position in Lothian's New York Brass Band, which was attached to the Seventh Regiment, and became its musical director. His talent for composing and arranging military music soon gave him reputation and lucrative employment, and in 1860 he was engaged to organize a new band for the Seventh Regiment. The success of Grafulla's Seventh Regiment Band was immediate; it long enjoyed an extensive public and private patronage, and its reputation became national....For twenty years he served the Regiment as bandmaster without salary or any compensation. Age and sickness compelled him to retire from the service, and he died in New York in December, 1880."