SKU: CL.024-4975-01
Karl King’s classic Coast Guards March is one of his most tuneful and playable marches. This version has been carefully adapted for young bands with a smaller instrumentation. The full effect of the original has been preserved, making this a fine choice to introduce your students to the style of the march, and to the music of Karl King. A perfect concert opener, festival selection, or toe tapping crowd pleaser!
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This Karl King gem is a fun and exciting showpiece for mature bands! March Ponderoso features thundering low brass, dazzling upper woodwinds, and some great screamer moments! This edition from the Karl L. King Centennial Series includes extensive program notes, historical information, and performance suggestions. If you’ve got the horses, this march is for you!
SKU: CL.012-4500-01
Karl King’s Cyrus The Great March had been a band favorite for nearly a century, and this Karl L. King Centennial Edition by Andrew Glover gives new life to this classic march! Long a favorite of circus bands, with its ponderous low brass lines and ominous minor key tonalities, this engaging march provides opportunities for all sections to display technical and musical virtuosity. Proof that not all marches sound alike, Cyrus The Great will delight and impress your audiences from start to finish.
SKU: CL.012-4707-01
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Karl King's Cyrus The Great March had been a band favorite for nearly a century, and this Karl L. King Centennial Edition by Andrew Glover gives new life to this classic march! Long a favorite of circus bands, with its ponderous low brass lines and ominous minor key tonalities, this engaging march provides opportunities for all sections to display technical and musical virtuosity. Proof that not all marches sound alike, Cyrus The Great will delight and impress your audiences from start to finish.
SKU: CL.012-4300-01
This Karl King gem was written during King’s days as a trouper with the circus, and it really shows! A brass fanfare is followed by two magical strains which are unmistakable King-tunes, and the trio shows influence of ragtime, which was the great musical craze of the time. Embellished with a delightful piccolo solo (but not too difficult!) this wonderful King classic will bring the house down! Includes extensive historical information, rehearsal suggestions, and performance suggestions.
SKU: CL.012-4852-00
The great Karl King wrote many wonderful marches, and The Caravan Club is one of his most interesting and unusual works. Heavy and ponderous at times, light and frisky at others, this march was used often in the circus to accompany tiger acts. An ominous introduction leads to a lumbering first strain, followed by a delightful contrasting, almost ragtime-like second strain. The trio features a wonderful melody with euphonium countermelody, in the style made so famous by King. The weighty breakstrain returns to a minor key feel, and then concludes with an embellished version of the trio. One of the march King’s very best! Immense!
SKU: CL.026-3883-01
A very popular Karl King march arranged by Andy Clark for the new Build-A-Band Series for bands with unique instrumentations. Playable by any combination of instruments as long as you have the five main parts covered plus drums. It's true to King's original and will sound great with a small number of players.
About Build-A-Band Series
The Build-A-Band Series provides educational and enjoyable music for bands with incomplete or unbalanced instrumentation. Written using just four or five parts (plus percussion), these effective arrangements will work with any combination of brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments as long as you distribute the parts so that each of the five parts is covered. All of the publications in the Build-A-Band Series have been arranged to be playable with any instrumentation as long as each part is used: 1st Part, 2nd Part, 3rd Part, 4th Part, and Bass Part. (Please note: In some of these arrangements the 4th Part, and the Bass Part are the same, making it possible to play those arrangements with only 4 parts.)
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Karl King was a true American march master, and The Soaring Eagle is one of his finest and most tuneful marches! Memorable melodies, exciting countermelodies, and woodwind obbligatos combine to make this an outstanding choice for mature bands. Originally entitled Cle Elum Eagles, this edition for the Karl L. King Centennial Series provides a wealth of historical and performance material, as well as background on this great march. One of the King’s best!
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Karl King's Gallant Zouaves is a classic military-styled march penned during his early days as a circus bandmaster. Bright, martial melodies are followed by a regimental trumpet and drum trio, subsequently embellished by a woodwind countermelody and then a ponderous bass line, before ending with a rousing final strain. This King masterpiece will keep toes tapping throughout the audience, and be a favorite march to perform for years to come. Outstanding!
SKU: CL.012-4982-01
SKU: CL.012-4400-01
Karl King’s Gallant Zouaves is a classic military-styled march penned during his early days as a circus bandmaster. Bright, martial melodies are followed by a regimental trumpet and drum trio, subsequently embellished by a woodwind countermelody and then a ponderous bass line, before ending with a rousing final strain. This King masterpiece will keep toes tapping throughout the audience, and be a favorite march to perform for years to come. Outstanding!
SKU: CL.012-4701-01
All the thrill and excitement of the circus come to life with Karl King’s Pageantry March! This time-honored circus screamer really romps from start to finish, and presents lots of fun for the entire band. While not as difficult as some circus marches, Pageantry has all the appeal and musical frenzy of any march! This edition from the Karl L. King Centennial Series includes extensive program notes, performance suggestions, and historical information. Hit it hard, and wish it well!
SKU: CL.012-3406-01
This long-lost march is one of Karl King's most tuneful and toe-tapping works. With melodic and interesting parts for all sections, it's a perfect march for mid-level bands. The trio is pure Karl King, wonderfully lyrical and complete with a nice euphonium part. Sounds like a million bucks! This is a terrific march for concert, festival, or contest use. Audiences will love it!
About Heritage of the March
Full -sized concert band editions of the greatest marches of all time. Each has been faithfully re-scored to accommodate modern instrumentation and incorporate performance practices of classic march style
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Karl King composed his Auld Lang Syne March using the oldest song of friendship as the basis for the trio, but cleverly interweaves various Scottish folk tunes in this beautifully crafted march. Perfect for a variety of performance situations, this march has a special stately quality to it which will impress audiences and challenge performers. This Karl L. King Centennial edition includes extensive historical background information, program notes, performance suggestions, and much more.
SKU: CL.012-5000-00
SKU: CL.012-4200-75
Unquestionably Karl King's masterpiece, Barnum and Bailey's Favorite March is now available in this wonderful new centennial edition arranged by Andrew Glover. Fully restored from the original 1913 edition, and with carefully edited parts for modern band, your audience will thrill to the exciting sounds of the circus with this brilliant march! Includes many pages of extensive historical and performance notes as well as biographical information on the composer. A must for every serious band!
