# Oh Great And Mighty Teeming Masses ID this Classical Piece Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439 "2017-01-18T01:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/1 "2017-01-18T01:13:01Z")
I know it is called “Trumpet March” and it is for a flute duet. I need to know the composer and/or where I can buy the sheet music. I used to play this with my flute instructor and I’d like to practice it again. With the wealth of knowledge here I don’t suspect it will take very long . 🙂 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOa7RQy4mOg) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/2 "2017-01-18T02:13:52Z")
I’m pretty darn good with classical music (broadly interpreted) and I’d never heard this’n before! Quite pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/3 "2017-01-18T02:35:24Z")
It apparently comes from [Volume 1 of H. Voxman’s “Selected Duets for Flute”, Rubank Educational Library #177: #13, p. 19, “A Trumpet March”](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/selected-duets-for-flute-podcast/id278619329?mt=2). The sources of Voxman’s selections are listed [here](http://www.rundel.de/en/selected_duets_for_flute_vol_1/a-234/2085), but I’m not sure there’s a way to tell which one the “Trumpet March” is taken from without looking at Voxman’s book: > [@](#): > > Nineteen Duos (Selected from the Works of Devienne) > Seventeen Duos (Arranged from the Works of Anonymous Eighteenth Century Composers) > Five Duets (Selected from the Works of Corette) > Nine Duos (Selected frim the Suites of Boismortier) > Four Duos (Selected from the Works of Aubert) > Four Duets (Selected from the Works of Kummer) > Three Duos (Selected from Opus 59 of Berbiguier) > Twenty Duets (Selected from the Works of Chedeville, Corelli, Eccles, Gemininani, Handel, Haydn, Hook, Purcell, Telemann, and others) > Three Duets (Selected from the Works of Quantz, Hummel and H. Köhler) ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/4 "2017-01-18T02:37:54Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > It apparently comes from [Volume 1 of H. Voxman’s “Selected Duets for Flute”, Rubank Educational Library #177: #13, p. 19, “A Trumpet March”](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/selected-duets-for-flute-podcast/id278619329?mt=2). > > The sources of Voxman’s selections are listed [here](http://www.rundel.de/en/selected_duets_for_flute_vol_1/a-234/2085), but I’m not sure there’s a way to tell which one the “Trumpet March” is taken from without looking at Voxman’s book: Thank Kimstu!! 🙂 Now that I know the book I can track it down from here. That is exactly what I need. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/5 "2017-01-18T02:40:49Z")
No problem! 🙂 Nice piece of music, too. Happy flauting! (Fluting? Piping? Whatevs.) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/6 "2017-01-18T03:01:39Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > No problem! 🙂 Nice piece of music, too. Happy flauting! (Fluting? Piping? Whatevs.) The correct term is “blowing gently on firm rods” but it sounds better in Latin. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/7 "2017-01-18T03:12:02Z")
Order it off Amazon so I should get it in a few days. Thanks again! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/8 "2017-01-18T03:16:42Z")
Great! When you get the book, please tell us which of those classical compositions Voxman’s flute-duet adaptation comes from; it would be interesting to hear the theme in the original work. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-and-mighty-teeming-masses-id-this-classical-piece-please/777439/9 "2017-01-18T19:57:09Z")
I picked up the book at a local music shop and the song is in the chapter “Seventeen Duos (Arranged from the Works of Anonymous Eighteenth Century Composers)”. So I guess there’s no way to know who did the original, it has been lost to the sands of time.