The Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa

For trumpet and piano

Written in F major, range G3 to A5

Sousa said this march began playing in his head on Christmas Day 1896, on a ship bringing him home from Europe, like a band he could hear but not see, and he wrote it down when he landed. In 1987 it became the official national march of the United States.

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