Military Music From the Age of Reason

German Traditional (Composer), Belgian Traditional (Composer), Traditional (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), Charles Stewart Ashworth (Composer), Giles Jr. Gibbs (Composer), American Traditional (Composer), Turlough O'Carolan (Composer), French Traditional (Composer), Carousel Tune Traditional (Composer), Johann Paul Aegidius Martini (Composer), Scottish Traditional (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), John Stafford Smith (Orchestra), English Traditional (Artist), Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: John Stafford Smith
• Composer: German Traditional, Belgian Traditional, Traditional, Anonymous, Charles Stewart Ashworth, et al.
• Audio CD (August 15, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bandleader
• ASIN: B00004UDF8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,365,209 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nightpiece No.18 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

2. Tattoo No.21 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

3. March No. 30 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

4. Village Dance

5. Majors Maggot (from Edward Murphy Manuscript, 1790)

6. Basket of Oysters, folk song

7. Polonese Dance (from Edward Murphy Manuscript, 1790)

8. Yankee Doodle, song

9. The Austrian (from The Martial Music of Camp Dupont, pub. George Blake)

10. The Red Joke (Giles Gibbs, Jr., His Book for the Fife, 1777)

11. The White Joke (Williams Williams Manuscript)

12. Green Joke (from A New & Complete Preceptor for Fife, ca.1820)

13. The Fairy Queen

14. March Royale de France

15. March No.8 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

16. Nightpiece No.35 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

17. March No.25 (from 1758 book of Tattoos, Nightpieces & Marches)

18. Guardian angels

19. York Fusiliers (aka New York Fusiliers)

20. Dead March (from duty book funeral, Camp Dupont, PA, ca.1815)

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Middlesex - Always 5-Star in my book, February 8, 2012

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M. Goodrich (Palm Bay, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Military Music From the Age of Reason (Audio CD)

Although I play neither fife or drum, I am "addict" to fife & drum corp music, and have over a dozen CDs that I enjoy. This CD by Middlesex County Volunteers (MCV), plus others that I have, all deserve 5-Stars. It's especially impressive to see the MCV perform on You Tube - both in the U.S and Europe. Their fine performances must require a great deal of practice and discipline. With their smart Colonial Era uniforms, they represent the best of what the U.S has to offer - making me proud to be an American.

5.0 out of 5 stars Martial Music from the Age of Reason, July 15, 2006

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Roger Kennedy (USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a fine collection of less well known fife and drum music. The playing is superb. The Middlesex County Volunteers represent the collective genius and enthusiam of all the Colonial period re-enactors in this area of music. Although we have the standard "Yankee Doodle" here and there, its interspaced with many fine and certainly not very well known pieces from German and French sources of the period. The fifes have a stronger, fuller quality as noted by one of the reviewers above which gives them a better quality from the standard we normally hear in this regard. MCV has developed what is normally just limited Field Music into a wide ranging tonal sound. These guys also have smart uniforms and no doubt put on a great marching display. Look for them at the Edinburgh Tattoo very soon. With US military bands limited now because of service requirements groups like this will have a greater role to play for local and International Military Tattoos. They can certainly represent the USA every bit as well as the Old Guard Fife and Drum in DC. I look forward to seeing more from the MCV.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD!, May 16, 2002

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T. Cole (Manassas, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This is another great CD from Middlesesx County Volunteers Fifes and Drums. It has a good varity of songs with some great harmonies. This corps uses 10 hole fifes, so the sound is a lot nicer than with the 6 hole fife.