John Phillip Sousa was America’s first great musical composer and most notable director of the U.S. Marine Corp Band. He composed many great American marches and military pieces and brought the Marine Band into national and international fame. The Marine Band became known as “The President’s Own” and Sousa became known as the “March King.” After military service he organized his own concert band, which toured and gained worldwide fame and popularity. In addition to being a renowned composer of the American marches, Sousa also composed many other types of music, including symphonies, operettas and operas. Sousa also became a published author and made many other contributions to society. This report focuses on the musical and personal life of John Phillip Sousa including some of his most notable successes. American composer, John Phillip Sousa was born on November 6th, 1854 in Washington, D.C. He died on March 6th, 1932 in Reading, PA at the age of 77. Sousa was born and raised on G street in Washington, DC just a few blocks for the U.S. Marine barracks where is father, Antonio served as a trombone player in the Marine Band. The third of ten children, John Phillip Sousa was born to immigrant parents. His father, John Antonio Sousa whose parents were Portuguese, was born in Spain. He mother, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus was born in Bavaria. …show more content…
In 1896, Sousa’s first operetta “El Capitan” was performed and became one of his most successful works. He also wrote a number of comic operas including “The Bride Elect” and “The Free Lance.” Sousa’s band continued to tour across the U.S. and Europe and eventually around the world in 1910. After the beginning of World War I, Sousa join the Navy and began leading naval bands however, in 1920 he left the Navy and returned to his band.
On November 6th, 1854, John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. His Father, John Antonio Sousa was Portuguese, while His Mother Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Was Bavarian. The first instrument John ever played was the violin. He also sang, and played instruments such as the piano, flute, trombone, and baritone. When John was 13, his father enlisted him in the Marine Corps Band so he wouldn’t join the circus, however he did play drums for Pt Barnum, the Circus King. John remained with the Marines until he was twenty years old.
"He just got his music out of the air," said one neighbor. One cannot hear the word "ragtime" without thinking of the "King of Ragtime," Scott Joplin. He is clearly one forerunner in the field of American music, particularly at the turn of the twentieth century.
Howard, John Tasker, and George Kent Bellows. A Short History of Music in America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. 342-3. Print.
The Orchestra written by Michael Hurd-Erin District High School Library-Date of publication:1981-Publishing Company: Phaidon Press Ltd
Aaron Copland was born November 14th 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He is the youngest of five children to Sarah Mittenthal, his mother and Harris Copland, his father. He had two brothers, Ralph and Leon and two sisters Laurine and Josephine. As early as the age of nine, he began making up songs on the piano and two years later, his older sister Laurine began giving him piano lessons. In 1914, Copland began studying with his first professional piano teacher, Ludwig Wolfsohn in Brooklyn, New York. His first public performance as a pianist was in 1917, one year before his graduation from high school in Brooklyn. Upon it’s grand opening in 1921, Copland attended the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, a music conservatory designed to introduce the best American composers to the French traditions of teaching music, composing and performing.
In their books: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943, Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis give a detailed account of the life of one of America’s most influential composers. The books are arranged similarly to the Shostakovich biography that our class reviewed earlier this semester. That is, through personal accounts by Copland himself along with accounts of Copland’s friends and acquaintances, the authors manage to paint an accurate and interesting picture detailing the life of the great composer. When combined, the two books recount Copland’s entire life, dividing it into two periods for the purpose of easier organization and reading.
John Adam in his early age he studied and learnt clarinet, composition and music theory which he actually studied from his father. He use to play orchestra and performed in marching bands. In the era of late 1960’s Adams attended Harvard University and appeared as a Clarinetists along with the band named Boston Symphony.
In the 1920s a new kind of music rose in New Orleans. Different from the ballroom songs popular in that day, former slaves and their families created this new music called jazz, which spread like wildfire. Many artists influenced the growth of this great type of music including Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Louis Armstrong played as one of these great men. Growing up in a poor section of the “Birthplace of Jazz”, Armstrong taught himself to play the trumpet, also known as the cornet. Louis Armstrong was the most influential jazz trumpet player to walk this earth due to his own created style of jazz including many songs that are still used today.
Amy Beach was a very famous and influential composer and pianist from New Hampshire, United States. She fought long and hard to get to where she got in her lifetime. Back in the late 1800’s, it was hard for women to get noticed because they believe that their role in society was to stay at home and take care of the family. Amy Beach defeated all the odds of a female gender role in her lifetime. She became a role model for young girls wanting to become a composer or becoming anything they wanted to be, as long as they fought for it. She has made an enormous impact on music in America. The following paper will discuss Beach’s life, her struggles, her musical training, how her music was shaped by the society she lived in and famous compositions
John Philip Sousa was born in 1854, the third child of ten. He was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were immigrants. John
The ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’ is a march by an American composer Sousa Phillip (Blackburn, 2004). The piece was premiered in 1897. It is one of the famous compositions among the composer’s works. Sousa and his band performed this piece regularly at their concerts. The piece commences with a short, exciting introduction, trailed by three contrasting melodies of different moods. Although Sousa had established his own poetry in the music, the piece is mostly heard in its instrumental structure. In 1987, the piece was nominated as the official march in the United States (Blackburn, 2004).
Though Jelly Roll Morton began his career without formal training, he grew to live an influential life. His piano style, musical notations on paper, and creative compositions thrived in the 1910s and the 1920s and even weaved its way into the later eras as musicians used Morton’s music as the foundation for their own. Even past his death, Jelly Roll Morton remains a legendary figure. His works are meticulously preserved and displayed in the prestigious Smithsonian Museum and universities around the world continue his legacy by teaching students about Jelly Roll Morton and his influential career.
Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer and pianist, was born on March 1,1810, according to the statements of the artist himself and his family, but according to his baptismal certificate, which was written several weeks after his birth, the date was 22 February. His birthplace was the village of Zelazowa Wola, part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
Sousa was born on November 6, 1854 at a small place on 636 G Street, in southeast Washington D.C., near the Marine Barracks that would later have some influence on his music. (Sousa) His father played trombone in the Marine Band. Sousa was the third of ten children from John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhous. Young Sousa grew up around military band music, and when he was just 6, he began learning a variety of instruments, such as; violin and piano. He also played flute, cornet, baritone, trombone, and alto horn. (Sousa)
Some topics that music composers used in their musical song composition were honored towards were the inaugural event for the Erie Canal or telling a story about celebration for the Gold Rush commotion in California. First song as a listener that was highlighted in the Early African American culture in the chapter was a music piece “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land.” Some musical composers based their lyrics written about the dangers of having slavery in the south. Anyway back to the listening musical piece, it was three minutes long the music piece was written around 1860.