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I need ideas for music that is written by EUROPEAN composers in the early 1900s or late 1800s. I am doing a comparison type thing and as of now I have Sousa's Black Horse Troop, which was written in 1924. I want to find another song (by a european composer) from the same time period, and then another American song and european song. I was thinking about Charles Ives' Variations on America or something for the American one. But I need more ideas for European music. If possible, songs that would be written for a symphonic band as well. ANY ideas would be helpful though.
 
"The Planets Op. 32 is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the British composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. The Planets is the most-performed composition by an English composer."
 
okay... i'll use either Jupiter from the Planets suite or 1812 Overture because my school already has both of those compositions. Ideas for an American song I could compare it with (around the same time period)?
 
We dont have that at school (i'm doing recordings with our symphonic band).
any other ideas? and I'm most definitely using the Planets thing cause the 1812 overture is from a Classics Composition thing which is like a bunch of songs all crammed into one and it's probably not very well written. But I would like something thats comparable, cause so far I've got Triumphal March and Washington Post March, so they are both marches but sound very different... so yeah... something like that.
 
Since I'm norwegian, I'll suggest you get something from Edvard Grieg who was a norwegian composer born 1843 and died 1907.

I'll suggest the suites he wrote for Henrik Ibsen's famous play "Peer Gynt", first performed in 1876. They're definetly norwegian treasures. :)

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Some added trivia, the band Kamelot uses part of from Grieg's "Solveig's sang" in their own song Forever. The melody in fact.
 
again, I need AMERICAN songs to compare with the Jupiter planets thing. also I'm only going to use like a minute of each one, so suggested parts to record would be helpful too
 
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