George G. Bruce

George G. Bruce was an American drum major during the Civil War, best known for co-writing The Drummer's and Fifer's Guide with Daniel Decatur Emmett.[1] The Guide was published in 1862, and remains well known as a source for music for the fife and drum. Bruce was a player of the drums, banjo, violin and mandolin.[2]

His work influenced Sanford A. Moeller of the Moeller Method of drumming, in the publisher's note of Moeller's own book he speaks highly Bruce's method of drum instruction, and indeed, Moeller's book has some similarity to Bruce and Emmett's The Drummers' and Fifers' Guide, in that both have lengthy treatments of the rudiments,[3] and many of the pieces in Bruce's book also appear in Moeller's.

Notes

  1. ↑ Snell and Kelley, pg. 30
  2. ↑ Music for Fife and Field Drums
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2009-07-28. Bruce and Emmett's The Drummers' and Fifers' Guide

References

  • National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era (2004). Mark A. Snell, Bruce C. Kelley (Eds.), ed. Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1538-6.
  • Nexus Percussion: Music for Fife and Field Drums
  • Civil War Bands and Their Music



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