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The Stars and Stripes Forever / John Philip Sousa [notated music]
- Title
- The Stars and Stripes Forever: Study score. [notated music]
- Composer
- Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932
- Editor
- Sargeant Jr., Richard W.
- Place of Publication/Creation
- Edwardsville, IL
- Published/Created
- 2013
- Type of Material
- notated music
- Genre
- notated music
- Publisher
- Serenissima Music, Inc
- Edition
- Newly engraved urtext.
- Language
- Unknown
- Media
- unmediated
- Physical Description
- 32 pages of music
- Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- Probably the most famous march in history, Stars and Stripes Forever was composed on Christmas Day 1896 while Sousa was traveling aboard the SS Teutonic bound for New York. In his autobiography, Sousa writes that he imagined the music while at sea and set it down on paper shortly after his return home. The manuscript full score is dated April 26, 1897. The march was first performed by the composer conducting the Sousa Band on May 14, 1897 in Willow Grove Park, near Philadelphia, though this date is disputed by the city of Augusta, Maine - who claim the premiere took place at a Sousa Band concert given there on May 1. With the Spanish-American War in view, the new march became immensely popular from the very start and has remained a favorite ever since. The piece was first published on the very day of the premiere in the composer's piano reduction. With many reissues, reprints and the expansion of band instrumentation - some added after the composer's death in 1932 - the scoring became bloated over the years. This new edition by Richard W. Sergeant Jr. goes back to the composer's original source material and to the actual performing practice of the Sousa Band itself to present a masterpiece of band writing as the composer himself used it. As with all of the Serenissima band offerings, it is presented in an easy-to-read format for use as either a study score or a performance score.
- Notes
- Study score.
- Wind Band.
- ISMN with hyphens: 979-0-58042-044-2
- Description based on ISMN data provided by the publisher.
- Subject
- Marches
- ISBN
- 9781608741229
- International Standard Music Number (ISMN)
- 9790580420442
Last Updated: 03-26-2022