# Ides March: Wind Band Score & Parts

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $76.99
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqVn9b_9ZCp_vU5pfFs5mf9c_LDM-Msu5XK8FlVBOemf_5m-8wb63yOhkIDxc0KFAWsfXxqzPMZwsYYhIpNBoBds0r76LeuVd_lGSuf2gHAcqb4hJmittkYYUTmTV76ZSQad5oqHkxg2o7-DB41yC8wLil9otkqGi8XTNcTWppPHzPtES_RkzxjXXIq9uBzVpOz0_qYAenEj9Kak88M3RFfm4wswroFVMH9zLbw0__XkZzRlOMEqvYTqJimpGi6UDHYolhAlHRi-pBOQb8aJse04TIiGKzfGBmm0Cw6HxiPQMh4cfIUnyb8VTuHAfz1LVc5w1OLGANrfG_vlhRLogcAOY9NTaCgXtTDiJfOpqyF1sGPYmYO5ZF0jOJZ0V_sKWOGd31wEXM6ZSzQUdX0SH3J3fzMeRrg43A93n-oz_i0GACpS4=
- **GTIN:** 9780571564880

## Summary

Ides March wind band score and parts by Derek Bermel, featuring a red cover with comedy and tragedy mask illustrations.

## Description

Ides March was commissioned by William Brine in 1990, Bermel's first commission. Brine requested that the work be a march suitable for performance at both a wedding and a funeral. Although originally titled Brine's March, when the composer learned that the march was to receive its premiere on 15 March, he changed the title to Ides March in a humorous nod to the Shakespearean admonition Beware the Ides of March ; in his youthful view a sentiment appropriate for either a wedding or a funeral. However, a line from Cole Porter was the inspiration behind the major key to minor key interplay of the work: 'What could be any finer? But how strange the change from major to minor, every time we say goodbye', a line that captured the composer's attempt to write a march that did justice to both the melancholy and triumphant.

## Categories

- **Categories:** Shipped

## Enrichment

- **Type:** sheet music
- **Type Synonyms:** musical score, band parts
- **Tags:** wind band, march, printed music
- **Category Path:** Media > Sheet Music
- **Music genre:** Other
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/9b2a64a810fa62ecdf8db63b242cdf34/7aab0bcf5bd8787b73f2e344f168662f.png)

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