Wow, I did not expect this to end up here! I learned the Battle of Manassas not too long ago, and it was a lot of fun! The innovations Tom Wiggins introduced

Wow, I did not expect this to end up here! I learned the Battle of Manassas not too long ago, and it was a lot of fun! The innovations Tom Wiggins introduced in that piece predated a number of twentieth century composers by nearly a century! Among them, the use of whistling and other sounds from the pianist (cf. a composer like Crumb), liberal use of quotations (cf. Ives), and the use of tone clusters (cf. a lot of twentieth century composers). It was actually the reason I learned how to whistle. :-) (I'm still not very good.) Edit: You can hear the Battle of Manassas with the sheet music here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ef5tAIlLo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ef5tAIlLo