List of works by Joseph William Postlewaite

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The table below gives the following information (where applicable):

• Title — as used on IMSLP.
• Key — the principal key of the work.
• Date — the year(s) of composition/first publication, where known.
• Genre(s) — as used by IMSLP's categorization system.
• Incipit & Notes — the initial sequence of notes; concerning related works, completeness, authorship, etc.

Although clearly written for his band to play, Postlewaite's music was predominantly published in piano arrangements, several works being reissued as "duetts." As per the original instrumentation, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. writes: "[n]o record has been found of the instrumentation of Postlewaite's sixteen-piece brass band..., nor of those of other of Postlewaite's various aggregations. Further, we cannot determine their instrumentations by observing those of other such groups of the period, since no standard instrumentation was in existence. Exceptions were perhaps some of the army bands which were authorized as sixteen-piece units. Photographs of such army bands show, generally, twelve over-the-shoulder brasses (except, in some cases, bell-front cornets) and four percussion. The brasses included cornets, alto and tenor horns, valve and slide trombones, baritones, and helicons or tubas; the percussion sections generally were comprised of snare drums (or one snare drum and one tenor drum), bass drum, and cymbals. We can assume that Postlewaite's band was either identical or similar" ("A Black Composer" 126-127).

Title	Key	Date	Genre(s)	Incipit & Notes
Almira Waltz	D major	pub. 1849, rev. 1880	Waltz
Galena Waltz	C major	pub. 1850	Waltz
Annie Polka-Mazurka	D major	pub. 1854	Polka Mazurka
Recreation Schottisch	F major	pub. 1854	Ecossaise
St. Louis National Guards Quickstep	C major	pub. 1855	Quickstep
Orange Schottisch	C major	pub. 1857	Ecossaise
Red Petticoat Mazurka	C major	pub. 1858	Mazurka
General Greys Quick March	C major	pub. 1861	March Quickstep	also referred to as Grays Quick Step key signature erroneously listed as G major in Descriptive Catalogue of Sheet Music and Musical Works (St. Louis: Balmer & Weber, 1867 or 1868?), p.253
Veiled Prophets Grand March	C major	pub. 1880	March

Source(s)

Floyd, Jr., Samuel A. "A Black Composer in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis." 19th-Century Music, vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn 1980, pp. 121-133. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/746710.