{"id":3551,"date":"2016-02-25T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T22:49:23","slug":"the-battle-of-the-somme-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of the Somme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<b>Title:<\/b> <i>The Battle of the Somme <\/i>(silent movie score)<br \/>\n<b>Composer:<\/b> Greg Smith<br \/>\n<b>Instrumentation: <\/b>Piano<br \/>\n<b>Product medium: <\/b>Full score (PDF download) &#8211; 80 pages<br \/>\n<i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Related products:<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/publications\/the-battle-of-the-somme-mp3.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The        Battle of the Somme (MP3)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><br \/>\nIn 1916 France was struggling to fend off German occupation.&nbsp; It had      become apparent that to break the stalemate Britain may need to      increase its involvement in battle.&nbsp; Plans were made in late 1915 by      French commander Joseph Joffre for coordinated offensives on all      fronts.&nbsp; On the western front, Joffre planned to attack Picardy near      the Somme River, which marked the boundary between the French and      British forces.&nbsp; However, by July 1916, the French forces had weakened and the Somme offensive became a primarily British battle.<\/p>\n<p>The initial attack was made on 1 July 1916 at 7.30am.&nbsp; 100,000 men      from British forces went into battle on that day.19,240 British      troops died that day.&nbsp; The battle would continue for a one hundred      and forty-one days.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell, British army cinematographers,      filmed footage of the preparations and Battle of the Somme.&nbsp; The      live footage was recorded between 26 June and 8 July 1916.&nbsp; Some      shorted staged sequences were staged in&nbsp; later July.<\/p>\n<p>The footage was first shown in London on 10 August 1916 at the Scala      Theatre and was publicly released 21 August.<\/p>\n<p>This original score was created for a live Remembrance Day      Observance presented by the Teachers Sub-Branch of the RSL and      Australia&#8217;s Silent Film Festival on 12 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p><b>SAMPLES:<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-1-Sample-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-1-Sample-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-2-Sample-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-2-Sample-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-3-Sample-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-3-Sample-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-4-Sample-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-4-Sample-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"1000\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-5-Sample-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Battle-of-the-Somme-Greg-Smith-Part-5-Sample-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Battle of the Somme (silent movie score) Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano Product medium: Full score (PDF download) &#8211; 80 pages &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Related products: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; The Battle of the Somme (MP3) Background: In 1916 France was struggling to fend off German occupation.&nbsp; It had become apparent that to break the stalemate Britain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[14,411,410,412],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano","tag-greg-smith","tag-silent-film-score","tag-the-battle-of-the-somme","tag-world-war-i"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}