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Although published as a piano solo (1902), "A Breeze from Alabama" is subtitled "March
and Two Step" and has a dedication on the cover to P. G. Lowery (Perry George Lowery,
1871-1942), "World's Challenging Colored Cornetist and Band Master." Thus, "A Breeze from
Alabama" may well have been conceived as a march for military band but published only as
a piano solo. No band arrangement by Joplin is known to exist, but Joplin could have done
this, as he himself was a cornetist as well as pianist, and had played cornet in bands like
Lowery's many times.
Drawing on this information, the present arrangement by James Siddons (2017) is
based on the following assumptions:
1. A Breeze from Alabama originated as a march (in march-trio form) for military band.
2. The 1902 publication is a piano reduction of that band work. The melodic lines intended
for cornet solo are generally discernable in the piano reduction.
3. A setting for piano duet (or ensemble) keeps this work in the tradition of ragtime piano
while also emulating the fulsome tone colors of brass instruments to a degree that a solo
piano cannot do. Thus this arrangement is not a solo-and-accompaniment setting, but
a setting for large ensemble with soloist. It is collaborative music, akin to a concerto.
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