Quarantine Polka (1885), for concert band (arr. Michael Compton) by W. F. Strong Sheet Music for Concert Band at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Quarantine Polka (1885), for concert band (arr. Michael Compton)

Artist W. F. Strong

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Michael Compton

Composer W. F. Strong

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 45

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher Kreechur Kumfort Publishing

Level 3

Product ID 930203

Genre Folk

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

In May of 1885, smallpox was raging in Page County, Iowa. In fact, the town of Shenandoah had special police guarding nineteen quarantined houses that included Shenandoahs mayor and the president of the Page County Board of Health. Also included in this quarantine was the dean of Strongs College of Music at Dixon, W. F. Strong. Strong, a graduate of the music programs at both the Northern Indiana Normal College (now Valparaiso University) and the Cincinnati College of Music, turned his creative juices to composition and among his prolific output during this period composed the short piece Quarantine Polka. It was published later that year as a part of his Gems of Pleasure series for piano and dedicated to Mae E. Black of Toledo, Ohio. This piece has been placed in a concert band setting but retains the original carefree flavor of Strongs 1885 composition.

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