#SOUSA STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER FOR FREE#
#SOUSA STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER PDF#

What makes a good march? What other kinds of marches are there? Wedding, funeral, Mardi Gras, military, graduation, demonstration. What instruments do you hear in each section? Which predominate? What mood was Sousa trying to convey in each section? If you don’t like the conductor’s very informative monologue, skip to the performance at around 1:00.What strikes you first about this piece of music? Which section or 'musical phrase' is especially memorable? Why?

#SOUSA STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER FOR FREE#

It also available for free from the US Marine Band as part of their Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa series.Ĭheck out this legit performance of Stars & Stripes, courtesy of the President’s Own United States Marine Band. I encourage any enterprising band directors to take a look.

#SOUSA STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER PDF#

Stars & Stripes is one of many Sousa marches (and other pieces by turn of the 19th-20th century composers) available at the Band Music PDF Library for free. The Wikipedia article on Stars & Stripes allows you to listen to a vintage recording of Sousa himself conducting the march, from 1909, in addition to containing a wealth of information about the piece. I wrote in on Christmas Day, 1896.” (Taken from program notes for the week beginning August 19th, 1923. On board the steamer as I walked miles up and down the deck, back and forth, a mental band was playing ‘Stars and Stripes Forever.’ Day after day as i walked it persisted in crashing into my very soul. I rushed to Genoa, then to Paris and to England and sailed for America. I was in Italy and I wished to get home as soon as possible. “I was in Europe and I got a cablegram that my manager was dead. Sousa, the march was written with the inspiration of God. The first came as the result of an interview on Mr. There are two commentaries of how the march was inspired. The march has been named as the national march of the United States. The author has noted the same emotional response of audiences to the march today. Sousa’s concerts and always drew tears to the eyes of the audience. The march was performed on almost all of Mr. Sousa added to the entertainment value of the march by having the piccolo(s) line up in front of the band for the final trio, and then added the trumpets and trombones join them on the final repeat of the strain. In fact, audiences rose from their chairs when the march was played.

Coupled with his Trooping of the Colors, the march quickly gained a vigorous response from audiences and critics alike. Sousa used it during the Spanish-American War as a concert closer. The march was not quite so well received though and actually got an over average rating for a new Sousa march. Bierley, University of Illinois Press, 1973, page 71)). taken from John Philip Sousa, Descriptive Catalog of his Works (Paul E. (Research done by Elizabeth Hartman, head of the music department, Free Library of Philadelphia. As reported in the Philedelphia Public Ledger (May 15, 1897) “… It is stirring enough to rouse the American eagle from his crag, and set him to shriek exultantly while he hurls his arrows at the aurora borealis.” (referring to the concert the Sousa Band gave the previous day at the Academy of Music). Stars and Stripes Forever (march) is considered the finest march ever written, and the same time one of the most patriotic ever conceived. Here are some well-researched program notes on Stars & Stripes from the Band Music PDF Library. Not only was Sousa’s band hugely popular, but it also exposed audiences all over the world to the latest, cutting-edge music, bringing excerpts of Wagner’s Parsifal to New York a decade before the Metropolitan Opera staged it, and introducing ragtime to Europe, helping to spark many a composer’s interest in American music. In 1892 he formed “Sousa and his Band”, which toured the United States and the world under his directorship for the next forty years to great acclaim. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at an early age and went on to become the conductor of the President’s Own Marine Band at age 26. native and legendary bandmaster John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) wrote a dozen operettas, six full-length operas, and over 100 marches, earning the title “March King”.

Sousa stars and stripes forever