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1148739

Setting the Watch for Concert Band Digital Sheet Music

Setting the Watch for Concert Bandby Graham Boag Concert Band - Digital Sheet Music

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Artist Graham Boag
Score Type
PDF
Composer Graham Boag
Format Digital Sheet Music
Pages 168
Arrangement Concert Band
Publisher Graham Boag
Product ID 1148739
Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

I originaly wrote this march for Brass Band. It's called 'Setting the Watch' and is inspierd by the Ripon Hornblower with the tradition going back over a thousand years to Saxon times when Viking raids were common occurrences and people lived in fear of their property, livestock and even lives being lost in night-time attacks. In 886, the English King was Alfred the Great and he made it his mission to visit his people bringing a message of safety and stability. In Ripon he granted the people a Royal Charter and gave them a symbolic horn as a gift, advising them that they should be always alert to the dangers of invaders. The people of Ripon decided to employ a night watchman that they called a wakemen to patrol from dusk until dawn ready to sound the horn gifted by the King should he spot any trouble approaching. For further reassurance, the wakeman sounded the horn at each of the four corners of the market place at 9pm every night to let the people know that he was on duty and they could sleep easily. This sounding of the horn at 9pm became known as setting the watch.

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