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Browse piano sheets by Charles C. Sweeley on Zen Virtual Piano. Charles C. Sweeley was a trombonist in the Repasz Band and a composer of some note. He wrote a march dedicated to Hazel, the band’s new director, entitled “Hazel’s Triumphal.” A player’s composition carrying the name of the band’s director can be read as the band’s membership and its music overlapping. IMSLP credits Charles C. Sweeley as composer of the march two-steps “Conway,” “Our Band” and “Ringgold,” the last dedicated to the Ringgold Band of Reading, Pa. “Conway” also appears in a version for theatre orchestra arranged by Frank Hoyt Losey (1870–1931) and published by Carl Fischer in 1912. A trombonist who also composed marches can be read as a musician moving between playing in a band and writing for one. The Repasz Band’s signature march, the “Repasz Band March,” has been part of the band’s musical life since 1901, the year Charles C. Sweeley and Harry J. Lincoln, a composer known for his many marches, copyrighted its original band edition. At the conclusion of every concert the band autographs the concert and seals its performance with a spirited rendition of the march. John Hunsinger’s research suggests that Sweeley bought the march from Lincoln, and documentation he found, including a sworn affidavit and copyright application, indicates more strongly that Lincoln may have been the composer. Concert programs and announcements credit both Sweeley and Lincoln. A march that a band closes every concert with, and whose credit stays shared between two names, can be read as a tune that belongs to the band more than to any one author.
Browse piano sheets by Charles C. Sweeley on Zen Virtual Piano.
Charles C. Sweeley was a trombonist in the Repasz Band and a composer of some note. He wrote a march dedicated to Hazel, the band’s new director, entitled “Hazel’s Triumphal.” A player’s composition carrying the name of the band’s director can be read as the band’s membership and its music overlapping.
IMSLP credits Charles C. Sweeley as composer of the march two-steps “Conway,” “Our Band” and “Ringgold,” the last dedicated to the Ringgold Band of Reading, Pa. “Conway” also appears in a version for theatre orchestra arranged by Frank Hoyt Losey (1870–1931) and published by Carl Fischer in 1912. A trombonist who also composed marches can be read as a musician moving between playing in a band and writing for one.
The Repasz Band’s signature march, the “Repasz Band March,” has been part of the band’s musical life since 1901, the year Charles C. Sweeley and Harry J. Lincoln, a composer known for his many marches, copyrighted its original band edition. At the conclusion of every concert the band autographs the concert and seals its performance with a spirited rendition of the march. John Hunsinger’s research suggests that Sweeley bought the march from Lincoln, and documentation he found, including a sworn affidavit and copyright application, indicates more strongly that Lincoln may have been the composer. Concert programs and announcements credit both Sweeley and Lincoln. A march that a band closes every concert with, and whose credit stays shared between two names, can be read as a tune that belongs to the band more than to any one author.
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He was a trombonist in the Repasz Band.
A signature march of the Repasz Band, whose original band edition was copyrighted in 1901 by Charles C. Sweeley and Harry J. Lincoln. The band closes every concert with it.
He wrote “Hazel’s Triumphal,” dedicated to the band’s new director, and IMSLP credits him with the march two-steps “Conway,” “Our Band” and “Ringgold.”