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

“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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

John Sousa was a 35 year old musican.He first was a leader of the marine band at the age of twelve.Instead of the marine band John wanted to do something diffrent.On July 30,1892 Sosusa resigned from the marine band,to start his own.

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.

Hendrix’s ability to perform guitar solos categorized by perplexing whammy bar use gave The Star Spangled Banner a sense of distortion of both time and direction. The most controversial nature of his style is characterized by the shrill and lurid sounds he manufactured from his guitar as they were complemented by the sounds of gunfire, screams, and bombs (Owen). However, his intentions were morally just and noble by simply playing a patriotic song for the soldiers risking their lives for the American people in Vietnam. He incorporates his artistic side as a musician by including sounds of war, barrage of gunfire, and bombs that American soldier face with the use of the whammy bar. From the beginning, Hendrix’s basics of playing were completely different from everyone else; he did not play with the C Major Chord like many guitarists would, instead he did it outside the box (Jones).

During the 1950’s-1970’s many composers started experimenting film scoring by associating genres such as jazz, funk, and rock. Composers such as Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington and Kenyon Hopkins associated different genres of music into film scoring. Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger. His most notable works include the Jazz-idiom theme to the Pink Panther film series. Mancini also composed the film scoring for Victor Victoria and Oklahoma Crude etc. He also recorded music in styles ranging from big band to classical to pop. Duke Ellington was also an American composer and Pianist and is often considered as the most influential composer and bandleader of the big band era. Ellington composed the film scoring for films

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.

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.

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