Object Details
- Author
- Luxton, J
- Barbelle 1888-1957
- Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
- Illustrated title page depicts a battle scene with a biplane and an airship in the sky. Helmet and swords used as decorative devices with various national flags in the border. Signed Al. Barbelle
- "Descriptive March Fantasia"--Page 2
- "Op. 2"--Page 2
- For piano
- Publisher's advertisement on verso of page 5 has incipits of sixteen piano pieces: By the sea : reverie / Leander Fisher. Rose waltz : standard / W.C. Powell. Little soldier march : school march / W.C. Powell. Twilight shadows : referie / Jerome Heller. Love's whispering : waltzes / L. Gould. Twinkling stars : three-step / Jerome Heller. Reflections : reverie / Jerome Heller. Beautiful tho'ts of love / Jerome Heller. Greyhound march / John Parker. Con amore : valse hesitation / W.C. Powell. Vision waltz : reverie-waltz / J. Holfman. Rippling waters : caprice / Wm. T. Pierson. Battle in the sky : march / J. Luxton. Valse Estelle / E. Goldston. Evening prayer : reverie / L. Gould. Twittering birds : reverie / John J. Fitzpatrick
- Also available online
- There is a longer version also in the NASMRB Landauer collection
- Elecresource
- Contents
- Soldiers' prayer before the siege -- The sound of distant guns -- The call to arms -- Cavalry call -- Gunners rush to their posts -- Army corps approaching in the distance -- Gradually getting in line -- Infrantry marching in perfect order -- Field guns -- Rain of shrapnel -- Machine guns -- Groans of the dying -- Battle rages with terrible fierceness
- 1916
- 1911-1920
- 1910-1920
- Call number
- M1 .B4
- Type
- Art
- Songs and music
- Battle pieces (Music)
- Advertisements
- Marches (Music)
- Popular music
- Scores
- Sheet music covers
- Sheet music
- Physical description
- 5 pages of music 36 cm
- Place
- United States
- France
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Fantasia
- Marches (Piano)
- Marne, 1st Battle of the, France, 1914
- Piano music
- Popular instrumental music
- Airships
- Biplanes
- Campaigns & battles
- Daggers & swords
- Flags
- Helmets
- Trench warfare
- American
- Record ID
- siris_sil_978487
