Harmonie Wind Bands and Baroque Music: At the Origins of Jazz explores a fascinating and often overlooked chapter in the history of music. This thought-provoking work delves into the intriguing possibility that the classical repertoire for wind ensembles, particularly Harmoniemusik, and the French Baroque performance traditions may have had a profound influence on the birth of popular music in Colonial America and the evolution of New Orleans jazz. Could early European military musicians and music educators have been the unseen architects of jazz, laying the foundation for its emergence? This book offers a compelling exploration of this question, uncovering forgotten aspects of the genre's origins and shedding new light on the role of military and classical wind music in shaping the sounds of a new era.



Esteban M. López Casoli, an Argentine-Italian piano student and music researcher, was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1971. His passion for European Classical Music, Argentine Tango, and American Jazz was cultivated during his high school years, sparking a deep interest that led to extensive research, the findings of which are explored in this book. In 2014, he participated in a clarinet course with Horacio Fraga, a military band clarinetist and saxophonist. Harmonie Wind Bands and Baroque Music: At the Origins of Jazz marks his inaugural publication.



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Harmonie



Wind Music and Bands Preceding the Harmonie



The Harmonie, the Feldharmonie and the Türkische Musik



Pecularities in Works for Harmonie



Speculations on the Origins of the Harmonie



Periods in the Evolution of Harmoniemusik



Name Variations in the Habsburg Empire



Mistranslations of the Term Harmoniemusik



Harmonie Wind Bands and Baroque Music in Colonial America:

Their Influence on the Origins of Jazz



Conclusions



Epilogue



Contributors through Personal Communications



Illustrations



Excerpts



Index