Purchasing information Notice for leaders/bass players
Length: approx. 3½ mins. Sounds best if the 1st tenor and bass are doubled.
The Colored Major, a bright and breezy affair, is proclaimed on the cover of the original sheet music as the march with the famous drum solo which also shows a smartly parading Afro-American drum major. It was Henry's first published work. Its form is basically AABBACAC with a 4-bar introduction and an 8-bar interlude between the B- and C- strains whereby the. AABBA- and CCB-strains are written in the major keys of C and F respectively. In this adaptation for recorder quintet the "famous" drum solo" is handled by the basses in a 3-bar passage in the interlude. This piece is great for the treble player who has all the melodies.
The Colored Major was published by
Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York, USA.
A tempo of 78 crotchets/min. is suggested.
