[78-L] WWI descriptive record with fadeout

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Philip Carli wrote:
> That's the point of "patrols", which were a fairly common American
> descriptive musical genre from the 1880s up to 1910 or so -- the band
> comes from a distance, plays loudly as it supposedly passes the auditor,
> and then goes away.  The most famous piece of the type is F. W.
> Meacham's "American Patrol" (1885), which I'm sure was recorded pretty > 
> early as it was enormously popular.  The interesting thing is when you
> have the effect done by a mix of voices, conversation, _and_ instruments
> (as in the "British Troops" selection) rather than strictly instrumental
> means; you can control diminuendos by volume and orchestration very
> easily, but less so with voice groups.  PC
>
Popular enough, IIRC, to be rewritten and become a hit for
the Glenn Miller band...!

Steven C. Barr