John Philip Sous Father Of Marching Music

John Phillip Sousa was the father of marching music and the father of the marching arts. Most of the patriotic marches that we know today were written by John Phillip Sousa, like the famous “Stars and Stripes Forever." According to The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, “John Phillip Sousa wrote 137 marches, five teen operettas, five overtures, eleven suites, twenty-four dances, twenty- eight fantasies, and 322 arrangements of nineteenth-century western European symphonic works.” Not only, he was a world renown composer, educator, and a lieutenant commander of the military Marine (known as the Presidents Own Band), and Naval Reserve band, and a successful author of three books, The Fifth String, Pipetown Sandy, and The Transit
After with the Marines, he was discharged. According to The Library of Congress, “Thereafter, he performed as a violinist and conductor in various theater orchestras in Washington and Philadelphia.” Later after he got discharged, the eighteenth of December 1879, he was married to a famous singer Jane Van Middlesworth Bellis. Few months after they got married, they returned to Washington, D.C., where Sousa regained his leadership as a band commander of the “Presidents Own Band” over twelve years he shaped and molded the musician’s physically and musically to be the best. John Phillip Sousa conducted under five presidents: Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Chester A. Arthur and William H.
He wrote three novels – The Fifth String, Pipe town Sandy, and The Transit of Venus. According to Bowen-Merrill, “In his 1902 book The Fifth String, it’s about a young violinist made a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. The first four strings of the violin excited the emotions of Pity, Hope, Love and Joy. The fifth string would cause the player's own death once played. “When the violinist was unable to win the love of the woman he desired, he played on the death string at what would be his final live concert." Furthermore, John Phillip Sousa Sousa also wrote a booklet entitled A Manual for Trumpet and Drum According to the book, Its “A manual for trumpet and drum," “published by the Ludwig drum company, with advice for playing drums and trumpet. An early version of the trumpet solo to "Semper Fidelis" was included in this