Headway March

Henry Fillmore

Henry Fillmore (arr. Contorno)

General Info

Year: 1920 / 2014
Duration: c. 2:23
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications

Cost: Score and Parts - $50.00   |   Score Only - $4.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Snare Drum
• Crash Cymbals
• Orchestra Chimes

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This very playable march was written in 1920 under the pseudonym Harold Bennett, and later published in No. 3 of the famous Bennett Band Books. These little books were the delight of millions of fledgling musicians and their teachers, and were Fillmore's gift to American music education! This arrangement is a tribute to Fillmore, and to Dr. Nicholas Contorno, who passed away in 2014.

-Program Note from publisher

Henry Fillmore was known throughout Florida as “Uncle Henry” and was instrumental in the development of band programs in the state. He was a prolific composer and arranger of music for wind band. Paul Bierley (noted Sousa and Fillmore scholar) documents 256 original compositions in the Fillmore catalog. Uncle Henry’s free spirit and love of “fun music” is evident in the majority of these works, particularly in his marches. Henry Fillmore wrote Headway March in 1920, under the pseudonym Harold Bennett, and it was later published in No. 3 of the famous Bennett Band Books. This march features standard march form and characteristic 6/8 rhythms, multiple endings, dynamic contrasts, and chromatics in the sound and style of college fight songs so prevalent at the time it was written.

- Program Note by the Buchholz High School Wind Symphony

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• Buchholz High School (Gainesville, Fla.) Wind Symphony (Alexander Kaminsky, conductor) – 17 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Courage (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1919/2003/2012)
• His Honor March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1934/2014)

All Wind Works

• 136th U.S.A. Field Artillery (arr. Foster) (2012)
• Alamo March (as Will Huff) (1916)
• Alamo March (arr. Miller) (1916/2016)
• America Exultant (arr. Glover) (1917/2004)
• Americans We (ed. Fennell) (1929/1979)
• Americans We (ed. Foster) (1929/2011)
• Black Mask, The (written as Al Hayes) (ed. Foster) (1914/2015)
• Bones Trombone (arr. Oliver) (1922)
• Bull Trombone (1924/1959)
• Chimes of Iron Mountain, The (1955)
• The Circus Bee (1908)
• The Circus Bee (1908/2003) (ed. Foster)
• The Circus Bee (arr. Custer) (1908/1994)
• The Circus Bee (ed. Schissel) (1908/2007)
• The Circus Bee (arr. Stevens) (1908/2013)
• Courage March (2013) (arr. Contorno)
• Courage (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1919/2003/2012)
• Cradle of Liberty (as Al Hayes) (arr Laferty) (2015)
• The Crosley March (arr. Foster) (2001)
• The Crosley March (arr. Schissel) (2023)
• The Footlifter March (arr. Foster) (1935/2003)
• Footlifter March, The (ed. Blatti) (1935)
• Genius (arr. Clark) (1937/2005)
• Gifted Leadership (ed. Foster) (1927/1959)
• Go: Galop (as Will Huff) (1916)
• Go: Galop (arr. Contorno) (1916/2009)
• Golden Friendships (ed. Foster) (1926/2005)
• Headway March (arr. Contorno) (1920/2014)
• His Excellency (ed. Schissel) (1909/2006)
• His Honor March (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Clark) (1934/2014)
• His Honor (ed. Fennell) (1934/1978)
• His Honor March (arr. Foster) (1934/2000)
• Hot Trombone (1921)
• In Uniform (1905)
• King Karl King (1957)
• King Karl King (ed. Foster) (1957/2007)
• Klaxon, The (1930)
• The Klaxon (arr. Balent) (1930/1995)
• The Klaxon (ed. Fennell) (1930/1984)
• The Klaxon (arr. Foster) (1930/2014)
• Lassus Trombone (1915)
• Lassus Trombone (arr. Clark) (1915/1998)
• Lassus Trombone (ed. Foster) (1915/2011)
• Lassus Trombone (arr. Schissel) (1915/2000)
• Light Cavalry Overture (as arranger; ed. Foster) (1866/2000)
• Lightning Fingers (arr. Foster)
• Lucky Trombone (1926)
• Man of the Hour, The (1924)
• (We're) Men of Florida (ed. Foster) (1949/2005)
• Men of Ohio (1921)
• Men of Ohio (ed. Foster) (1921/2009)
• Men of Ohio (arr. Schissel) (1921/1999)
• Miami (arr. Foster) (1938/2006)
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (arr. Balent) (1923/1990)
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (arr. Clark) (1923/2014)
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (ed. Fennell) (1923/1980)
• Military Escort (as Harold Bennett) (arr. Swearingen) (1923/1998)
• Military Escort in 5 Ways (1930)
• Miss Trombone (arr. Contorno) (1908/2012)
• Miss Trombone (1908)
• Mt. Healthy (arr. Shaffer) (1916/2007)
• Noble Men (arr. Foster) (1922/2001)
• The Orange Bowl (ed. Foster) (1939/2004)
• Our Own Red, White and Blue (arr. Foster) (1917/2015)
• Playfellow (1927)
• Poet, Peasant and Light Cavalryman, The ((1915/1959)
• Precision (as Harold Bennett) (arr. Clark) (1926/2011)
• Project (as Harold Bennett) (arr. Clark) (2002)
• The President's March (ed. Foster) (1956/2008)
• A Review March to the U.S. of A. Armed Forces (ed. Foster) (1942/2013)
• Rolling Thunder (arr. Howell) (1916/2020)
• Rolling Thunder March (1916)
• Rolling Thunder (ed. Fennell) (1916/1983)
• Rolling Thunder March (arr. Foster) (1916/2014)
• Rolling Thunder March (arr. Foster Jr.) (1916/2015)
• Rolling Thunder March (arr. Glover) (1916)
• Sally Trombone (1917)
• Shoutin' Liza Trombone (arr. De Meij) (1920/1991)
• Shoutin' Liza Trombone (arr. Foster) (1920/2002)
• Slim Trombone (arr. Contorno) (2013)
• Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/1934/1959/1973)
• Success (as Harold Bennett; arr. Clark) (1912/2001)
• Teddy Trombone (1911)
• Teddy Trombone (arr. de Meij) (1911)
• Teddy Trombone (arr. Foster) (1911/2013)
• A Trombone Family Reunion (arr. Glover) (2019)
• Troopers' Tribunal (1905)
• Troopers' Tribunal (arr. Foster) (1905/2009)
• The U.S. of A. Armed Forces (ed. Foster). See: A Review March to the U.S. of A. Armed Forces
• Waves March (1943)
• When the Saints Meet Lassus Trombone (arr. Brandon)
• The Whistling Farmer Boy (1925)

Resources

None discovered thus far.