The EABB Podcast focuses on providing information about past and current Early American (19th-century) brass bands through interviews, lectures, and musical recordings. Each episode will have a topic (specific bands, bandleaders, instruments, composers, etc..) or guest (historian, bandleader, active musician) that the participants will talk about. The participants can be any combination of host, co-host, and guest. The goal of the podcast is to connect and share the early American brass band community in the United States. Current bands will have an opportunity to be highlighted and historical bands will have an opportunity to be taught and kept alive.
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episode 10: 50 - Interview with Dr. Gordon "Buddy" Cooke: The Bugle in the United States
Episode 50 is our fantastic conversation with Dr. Gordon "Buddy" Cooke, author of the Anthology of Bugle Music. Buddy, Chris, and Stephen talk about the reserach that went into creating this book, as well as the history of how the bugle has been used in the United States military and civilian life.
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Music in this episode comes from The West Point Band Hellcats, and The 8th GM Regiment Band from George Mason University.
Episode Structure:
2:16 - Buddy's musical background
7:03 - Field music at West Point
13:17 - Distribution of field musicians throughout the Army's history
16:55 - Differences between bugles and trumpts, their uses
22:37 - The keyed bugle in the military
28:37 - Non-field music written for bugles, civilian uses for bugles
35:19 - Sousa's drum and bugle manual, the Marine Corps version of Taps
38:35 - Buddy's book "Anthology of Bugle Music", how the idea for the book started
43:42 - Challenges involved with researching and publishing a book
52:18 - Manual of French and European bugle calls
56:05 - Favorite bugle march and call
1:00:43 - Value of learning about field music
1:04:28 - Where you can find more about Buddy and his "Anthology of Bugle Music"
1:07:09 - Featured Album: "A Day in the Life of the West Point Hellcats"