John Philip Sousa Sheet Music for Concert Band

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In 1890 'The High School Cadets', a popular drill team attached to the very first high school in Washington D.C., asked John Philip Sousa to write a march for the group. They requested a 'better' marc...

One of many masterful but little-known works of John Philip Sousa, the overture to The Charlatan is representative of the composer at his melodic peak. This arrangement by Loras John Schissel has dram...

Written by John Philip Sousa in appreciation of an honor awarded him by the Board of Directors of the 1893 St. Louis Exposition, The Directorate was one of the first pieces Sousa composed for his newl...

The Thunderer is among the early set of marches Sousa sold outright to the Philadelphia publisher, Harry Coleman, for thirty-five dollars apiece. Its unusual second strain, music taken from Sousa's "T...

The Gallant Seventh honors the 107th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard. One of the 'March King's' finest efforts, it contains the traditional 'trumpet and drum' writing associated with...

John Philip Sousa wrote music in a variety of styles and was particularly adept at dance music, which, of course, was the original purpose of the march. The Gliding Girl is a tango, and its relaxed te...

The 'March King' wrote this in honor of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Schissel has prepared this edition for the modern concert band with corrected pitches, unified dynamics, and articulations. A bri...

Sousa's second decade of writing marches began with The Corcoran Cadets (1890). The piece is an eighth-note march designed more for sit-down playing, rather than for the field. It seems as though Sous...

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...

In addition to his well known marches, Sousa was also a prominent composer of operettas and musical comedies.  This delightful work was originally written as an opening to the first act of an un-...

The Gallant Seventh honors the 107th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard. One of the 'March King's' finest efforts, it contains the traditional 'trumpet and drum' writing associated with...

John Philip Sousa wrote music in a variety of styles and was particularly adept at dance music, which, of course, was the original purpose of the march. The Gliding Girl is a tango, and its relaxed te...

The 'March King' wrote this in honor of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Schissel has prepared this edition for the modern concert band with corrected pitches, unified dynamics, and articulations. A bri...