John Phillip Sousa

John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era. Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 1854, to John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus. Born of both Portuguese and Bavarian ancestry. His father was Portuguese, and his mother of Bavarian ancestry. Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert for harmony and musical composition at the age of six. At this time he also began studying voice, violin, piano, flute, cornet, baritone, trombone and alto horn. He was found to have absolute pitch. When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine

Other than all of the important war events that took place at the fort, the National Anthem of the U.S.A. was written because of the events that took place during the Battle of Baltimore. The writer, Francis Scott Key, was inspired at how the American flag was still standing after the British bombed Fort McHenry. The National Anthem was originally made just to be read, but over time started to be sung as a song. Come see this patriotic landmark today!

John Philip Sousa’s career started out when he was the conductor of the military band. Then he was thinking that the military band wasn't quite the right thing for him to so he decided to resign.

“The March King”, as John Philip Sousa was so aptly nicknamed due to the total of 136 military marches he composed over his lifetime, was born in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 1854. From an early age, Sousa had a great deal of parental influence persuading him to let music be a guiding force in his life, as his father played the trombone in the United States Marine Band. The adults in Sousa’s life believed that he possessed a great deal of natural talent even in his youth. At the age of 14, he followed in his father’s footsteps and became an apprentice in the Marine Band. He went on to join the Marines himself and was specially discharged at the age of twenty, after which he decided to try his hand at being a professional musician.

As the leader of the band Sousa was very busy with his work.He chose the music the music for band.John’s band was made up of diffrent unique instermements.Also Sosusa had to write the music that the musicans could adapt.He also had to

Scott, Francis Key “The rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,” The Star Spangled Banner. The War of 1812 contained the battle of which inspired the Defense of Fort McHenry, or also widely known as the Star Spangled Banner, America’s national anthem written by Francis Key Scott.

Some of you may ask, “Why? Why choose Louis Armstrong out of every composer out there?” Well there 's a few reasons why I believe Louis Armstrong is one of the top composers and should be known. To understand where I am coming from, it is best to understand him and how he came to be what he is today and see how he achieved his greatness throughout his lifetime. Some are fast to judge him without even knowing a single piece of music he had created. Little do many of you know you have heard of his music’s before but did not know who compose it, basically paid little attention to it. One of his most famous song compose is “What A Wonderful World”. Many of you have heard it through classical movie, it was inserted in one of America 's favorite

Jazz music was originally developed by African Americans during the start of the twentieth century. Throughout the semester we have studied the timeline of musical periods including the Romantic and Classical eras of music. Becoming internationally popular in the 1920's, jazz music has been typically described as "America's Classical Music." The musical periods we have discussed in this course have influenced and show a strong relation to jazz music and also jazz musicians. Among these musicians, is John Coltrane, considered one of the greatest jazz saxophonists and composers of all time. He was also one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century.

Ralph Martino (b. 1945), was an arranger and composer for the U.S. Navy Band for over 20 years. He received his B.M. and M.M. in composition from the Manhattan School of Music and has written for multitudes of different instrument combinations from large bands, to piano solos, to chamber groups. Currently, Mr. Martino maintains a private studio in the Washington D.C. area.

Sousa resigned from the military corps to become a musician. In first passage, paragraph 1, line 2-4 it states “On July 30, 1892, he resigned from the marine corps to start his own band. But what kind of band would it be”. He is thinking about what kind of band he wanted to be in so he can be a musician. He started to think of some bands and some he came up with in his head are Brass band, Military bands and Orchestra band. He combined all them together and he came up with his own band and that was the Sousa band. “It took

The clarinet is a woodwind instrament consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at one end and a mouthpiece at the other end, to which a thin reed is attached. The clarinet has five different sections, the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper section, the lower section, and the bell. The length of the entire instrument is 60 cm long. The mouthpiece section consists of a slotted cylinder, to which a reed is attached by a metal clamp called a ligature. The mouthpiece plugs into the next section which is a barrel. The barrel is simply a connecting cylinder to which the mouthpiece and the upper section plugs into. The upper section is a cylindrical pipe consisting of 4 holes and 9 keys placed in

One of the greatest musical composers, pianist and conductor during the nineteenth century was Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in Raiding, Hungary. His parents were Adam and Anne Liszt. Franz father, Adam was an artist who played many instruments and had many ties with great composers like Beethoven. Franz mother, Anne was a homemaker who took care of Franz children.

According to De Portales, Liszt had a struggle in himself between the virtuoso and the composer and he knew that he had to choose. He chose to go with the composer and in 1847 his virtuoso career was over (De Portales 111-112). Another reason he made the choice was that in 1847 Liszt once again fell in love upon meeting a princess, named Carolyne Sayn- Wittgenstein, in Kiev. She gave him a large sum of money after a charity concert and he deeply desired to meet her to thank her (De Pourtales 117). They met and fell in love. In 1848, after knowing each other for a couple of months they went back to Weimar together, even though she was married to another man (De Pourtales 121-122). Liszt accepted a job at the Grand Duke of Weimar’s court and became the Kapellmeister in Weimar and also the conductor (Perenyi 238, Kamien 238). This even though it by the romantic era was more normal for musicians to be independent (“Liszt, Franz”). His reason was not because he needed money, he was the first pianist performer who could support himself by doing what he did, he wanted to start composing (Franz Liszt). He stayed at his position in Weimar from 1848 until 1861 (“Liszt, Franz”). His new orchestra one of the first in Germany (De Portales (114). He managed to make the orchestra bigger and to obtain more skilled players. He made sure to give them better pay and better pensions. The orchestra had 45 members (“Liszt, Franz”), which was a normal size for a romantic orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1757 - 1791, was a prolific writer of concertos, composing 27 piano concertos. Throughout his writing he developed the use of the cadenza, highlighting the performer’s talent with a virtuosic passage. Not all Mozart’s cadenzas have survived therefore future composers have attempted to recreate these passages, often reflecting the period in which they were written.

Joseph Haydn, as well as having many connections to many great composers of the classical period such as a friend and mentor of Mozart, and a teacher of Beethoven was also the older brother of composer Michael Haydn. Joseph Haydn was born on the border of Hungary in the village of Rohrau, Austria. Mathias Haydn his father was Mathias Haydn, who served as an office akin to village mayor. Mathias was an enthusiastic musician, who during his career had taught himself to play the harp. Haydn's family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together and with their