He had some success with a few titles which enabled him to set up his own self-publishing company. His music was intended for the piano sheet music trade.
His first publication was for the Richmond Music Company in Richmond, VA where he was general manager. The first publication was The Chariot Race or Ben Hur March with a full-color cover.[1][2] Paull's success with Ben Hur, prompted him to use it in his marketing as he moved into the music teaching market and the phonograph manufacturing business.[3]
He began publishing in 1894, specializing in marches.[4] He is known for his 1905 march entitled, Paul Revere's Ride which was dedicated to the Daughters of the American Revolution.[5]
In order to sell music, the music was marketed with uniquely colorful front cover illustrations to catch the eye of buyers. He was the first music publisher to use five-color lithography for his sheet music. For this reason alone, music published by his firm has become highly collectible in the modern era and has latterly aroused interest in the composer.[4]
To further boost sales, he marketed his music as "descriptives" and ascribed certain sections of the music to allude to certain depictions of events on the cover illustration. This type of publication alludes to its being comparable to program music whilst never achieving the requisite complexity. The marketing of the pieces as "descriptives" (often a latter enhanced recycling of earlier published material) enabled the same music to be sold a second time around to the wide market of beginner-level pianists who had been accustomed to fare of this kind since Pridham's "Battle March of Delhi" in the mid-19th century. On this musical level, his true contemporaries were the British writers Ezra Read and Theo Bonheur of the same period.[citation needed]
Compositions
Cover of E.T. Paull's Chariot Race March (1896)[6]
1894
The Chariot Race or Ben Hur March OCLC 932533358
1895
The Old Man's Story
The Stranger's Story Song, or Why Do Our Loved Ones Leave Us
1896
Charge of the Light Brigade OCLC 26774048
The Della Fox Little Trooper March
The Elk's Grand March
Get Off Cuba's Toes
Great New York
Loan Me A Nickel
The New York and Coney Island Cycle March
The Stranger's Story Waltz
Sweet Rosa Dugan From Hogan's Alley
What Might Have Been
Whisper Again Sweet I Love You
You'll Always Find A Welcome For You At Home Sweet Home
1898
America Forever! March
He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye & Bye [w/Harry S. Miller]
The Ice Palace March
If You Were Only By My Side
Uncle Jasper's Jubilee
We'll Stand by the Flag
1899
A Warmin' Up In Dixie
1900
Dawn of the Century OCLC 82993588
Cover of E.T. Paull's Dawn of the Century (1900)
A Signal From Mars
1901
Our Wedding Bells Will Ring Out Some Day [w/Arthur Treveylan]
When Johnny Goes A Camping [w/Vincent P. Bryan]
The Witch's Whirl OCLC 997473426
1902
The Storm King
1903
The Burning of Rome OCLC 815381051
1904
The Circus Parade
The Romany Rye
1905
The Jolly Blacksmiths
Paul Revere's Ride OCLC 26774241 and OCLC 78344256
Hurrah! For the Liberty Boys, Hurrah! OCLC 43664611
Words and music by Harry Kennedy. Re-arranged and revised by Paull. Say "au revoir" but not good bye. OCLC 20119169
1919
American Wedding March
Spirit of France
1922
Sheridan's Ride
Custer's Last Charge
1924
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Spirit of the U. S. A.
1926
Top of the World (published posthumously)
References
^"Edward Taylor Paull". Retrieved 2008-04-07.
^Elizabeth C. Axford (2004). Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software and Web Sites for Musicians. Scarecrow Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780810850279.
^Solomon, Jon (2016). Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster. Edinburgh University Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1474407960. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^ a bJasen, David A. (1988). Tin Pan Alley: the Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times. Donald I. Fine, Inc. p. xix. ISBN 1556110995.
^Hackett Fischer, David (1995). Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press. p. 319. ISBN 0199779651. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^"E.T. Paull sheet music". Archived from the original on 2005-12-11.
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