The New Corn Palace March by Gene Milford Concert Band - Sheet Music

SKU: CF.CPS281

ISBN 9781491166222. UPC: 680160925278. 9 x 12 inches. Key: F major.

The Corn Palace is an auditorium in Mitchell, South Dakota with exterior walls decorated with murals consisting of different colored corn. In 1892 the then small community constructed an auditorium to house the annual harvest festival, a larger venue was constructed in 1905 and in 1921 the current building was inaugurated. The Fort Dodge (Iowa) Band with its first-year director Karl King was engaged for the weeklong event. Previous featured musical groups had included the Conway, Innis, Sousa, and U.S. Marine Bands. The band was augmented with musicians from the Minneapolis and Chicago Symphonies and the Sousa and Pryor Bands for the week. Each concert featured completely different music with works by Verdi, Weber, Gounod, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, and King among others with only the new march repeated on the programs. The New Corn Palace is firmly grounded in the circus march tradition of King’s more famous works, with a bold D-minor introduction and first strain, a contrasting F-major second strain, lyrical trio, and minor key break strain. King’s sense of melodic form is present with the return of the march’s introduction in the break strain. The original scoring with three cornet and two trumpet parts is unusual for King with trumpet fanfares in the final trio. This new edition incorporates the five parts into the three trumpet parts as well as re-scoring the saxophones to meet modern standards. Percussion parts have been edited to reflect expected performance practices.
The Corn Palace is an auditorium in Mitchell, South Dakota with exterior walls decorated with murals consisting of different colored corn. In 1892 the then small community constructed an auditorium to house the annual harvest festival, a larger venue was constructed in 1905 and in 1921 the current building was inaugurated. The Fort Dodge (Iowa) Band with its first-year director Karl King was engaged for the weeklong event. Previous featured musical groups had included the Conway, Innis, Sousa, and U.S. Marine Bands. The band was augmented with musicians from the Minneapolis and Chicago Symphonies and the Sousa and Pryor Bands for the week. Each concert featured completely different music with works by Verdi, Weber, Gounod, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, and King among others with only the new march repeated on the programs.xa0The New Corn Palace is firmly grounded in the circus march tradition of King’s more famous works, with a bold D-minor introduction and first strain, a contrasting F-major second strain, lyrical trio, and minor key break strain. King’s sense of melodic form is present with the return of the march’s introduction in the break strain. The original scoring with three cornet and two trumpet parts is unusual for King with trumpet fanfares in the final trio. This new edition incorporates the five parts into the three trumpet parts as well as re-scoring the saxophones to meet modern standards. Percussion parts have been edited to reflect expected performance practices.