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Browse piano sheets by Fred Luscomb on Zen Virtual Piano. Fred A. Luscomb was born in Battle Creek on 10 August 1860 and died in Bellevue on 10 June 1924; Wikipedia calls him an American composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist. He trained as a military musician, working with the military band of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment of the United States, and then became a music teacher at various public schools. A military musician who then taught in public schools suggests a musician who carried his band experience into the classroom. In 1905 he became a teacher and head of the music department at Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, where he also became conductor of the school’s wind orchestras. Drawing on his experience as a teacher in public schools, he published a book on teaching music in the public schools in 1913. A teacher who put his classroom experience into a book suggests a musician who thought as much about how music is taught as about how it is written. As a composer he wrote a number of works for orchestra and wind band, but also chamber music. His works include the character piece Cuban Dance (1905), the waltz A Flower of June (1907), the humorous march Farmer Bungtown (1908) and the dance piece Cordova (1909). In 1912 he wrote the oriental caprice Arabian Twilight, in four parts: The approach of the camels, The monk’s processional, The call to prayer and Dance of the dervishes. Titles that run from a Cuban dance to the approach of the camels and the dance of the dervishes read like a composer travelling the world on paper. For clarinet and piano he wrote a fantasy on Old Folks at Home (1892), a grand fantasy on Dixie (1897) and My Old Kentucky Home (1917). His works also include marches such as Friendly Greeting and Friendship (1914), the Cleopatra Overture (1916) and the overture Encomium (1920). Fantasies for clarinet and piano, by a composer who was also a clarinetist, were perhaps written close to his own instrument.
Browse piano sheets by Fred Luscomb on Zen Virtual Piano.
Fred A. Luscomb was born in Battle Creek on 10 August 1860 and died in Bellevue on 10 June 1924; Wikipedia calls him an American composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist. He trained as a military musician, working with the military band of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment of the United States, and then became a music teacher at various public schools. A military musician who then taught in public schools suggests a musician who carried his band experience into the classroom.
In 1905 he became a teacher and head of the music department at Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, where he also became conductor of the school’s wind orchestras. Drawing on his experience as a teacher in public schools, he published a book on teaching music in the public schools in 1913. A teacher who put his classroom experience into a book suggests a musician who thought as much about how music is taught as about how it is written.
As a composer he wrote a number of works for orchestra and wind band, but also chamber music. His works include the character piece Cuban Dance (1905), the waltz A Flower of June (1907), the humorous march Farmer Bungtown (1908) and the dance piece Cordova (1909). In 1912 he wrote the oriental caprice Arabian Twilight, in four parts: The approach of the camels, The monk’s processional, The call to prayer and Dance of the dervishes. Titles that run from a Cuban dance to the approach of the camels and the dance of the dervishes read like a composer travelling the world on paper.
For clarinet and piano he wrote a fantasy on Old Folks at Home (1892), a grand fantasy on Dixie (1897) and My Old Kentucky Home (1917). His works also include marches such as Friendly Greeting and Friendship (1914), the Cleopatra Overture (1916) and the overture Encomium (1920). Fantasies for clarinet and piano, by a composer who was also a clarinetist, were perhaps written close to his own instrument.
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Fred A. Luscomb (1860–1924) was an American composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist, born in Battle Creek.
It is a humorous march by Fred Luscomb, composed in 1908.
In 1905 he became a teacher and head of the music department at Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, and he published a book on teaching music in the public schools in 1913.
It is an oriental caprice Fred Luscomb wrote in 1912, in four parts, including The approach of the camels and Dance of the dervishes.