All The King's Forces (Brass Band)

Quick March - "All The King's Forces" by Stuart Dean
“All The King's Forces” is a Tri-Service Salute - a musical tribute to The Royal Navy, The British Army, and The Royal Air Force - written to commemorate the 80th Anniversaries of VE Day, and VJ Day.
The Introduction starts with the bugle call, Fall In, which is immediately followed by a series of short quotes comprising, The Royal Air Force March Past, The British Grenadiers, Hearts Of Oak, and concludes with a short snippet from Kenneth Alford's classic march, The Great Little Army.
The First Section is an augmented setting of “Fall In” which is embellished further on the repeat with the introduction of a counter-melody based on Hearts Of Oak and The RAF March Past. The powerful Bass Section that follows opens with quotes from The RAF March Past and A Life On The Ocean Wave (The Royal Marines). Both are set in an unfamiliar guise in the minor key and are punctuated by the chromatic swell of ocean waves at appropriate moments - the third and final of these alluding, by design, to another of Kenneth Alford’s well-known marches - The Army Of The Nile. This rousing section comes to a fitting close with a clear reference to Soldiers Of The King.
The calmer Trio Section that follows is derived entirely from bugle calls. The transition uses Rouse, interspersed by the playing of The Royal Navy’s Reveille (Charlie, Charlie, Get Out Of Bed), before the main Trio melody is heard in full using General Salute. A short bridge passage then draws the listener’s attention to the rhythmic similarity between General Salute and that of Hearts of Oak and The RAF March Past, before another chromatic descending passage - this time a nod to a motif from Zehle’s classic march Wellington - enables all three tunes to be played simultaneously and triumphantly in a new key..
The Coda Section, which preludes the final rousing salute, builds gradually in intensity. It starts quietly with a few light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek tunes comprising, All The Nice Girls, Love A Sailor; Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me; Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (complete with the roar of swooping aeroplanes overhead - the glissandos in the Trombones); Bless 'Em All; The Army, The Navy, And The Air Force, before the music is launched into a grandiose Final Section derived from overlapping references to The RAF March Past, Hearts Of Oak, and Soldiers Of The King, with short extracts of God Save The King thrown in for good measure.
The music concludes in fitting style with an augmented ending using a final burst of The RAF March Past, Hearts Of Oak, and for the Army The Rogues' March - before a final quote from Humpty Dumpty [All The King’s Horses, And All The King's Men . . .] pays clever homage to the derivation of the title of the work, “All The King’s Forces”.