John Philip Sousa

March (Full Score).

Moving between 6/8 and 2/4 meters, this is classic Sousa and is ensemble playing throughout; no one rests from beginning to end. Solid concert fare.

While John Philip Sousa was not entirely a slave to formulaic marches (in this march, for example, the introduction is an unusual twenty measures long), he did believe that marches should be paced at...

The musical comedy The Yankee Girl (1909) needed a march and Sousa was asked to provide one. The result was one of his most melodic efforts, with wonderful euphonium countermelodies and a great piccol...

Powhatan's Daughter March (pronounced POW-uh-tan), was composed between 1906 and 1907. Although informally written in honor of Pocahontas, the march's inherent character probably informed Sousa's deci...

In 1893 he composed the lively march The Liberty Bell, which is typical of Sousa's early creative period. The title refers to the play 'America', which Sousa had attended in Chicago at the time, and w...

Leichtes Medley bekannter Melodien (Marschbuchformat) von John Philip Sousa! Inhalt: 1. Unter dem Sternenbanner (Einleitung) 2. The Thunderer 3. The High School Cadets 4. Manhattan Beach 5. The Gladia...

In the company history of the 'Washington Post', one of the great American newspapers, under the year '1889' is the following brief entry: 'At the prize-giving of an essay contest on June 15, John Phi...