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By Tad Boehmer, Kelly Carlson, Adriana Cuervo, Kathryn Feazel, Reed Gallo, Eduardo Herrera, Lisa Lehman, Elizabeth Miller, Mary Miller, Tracy Parish, Noah Lenstra, and Aaron, Samantha and Scott Schwartz
Collection Overview
Title: John Philip Sousa Music and Personal Papers, circa 1880-1932![Add to your cart. Add to your cart.](themes/library_web/images/addtocart.gif)
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ID: 12/9/51
Primary Creator: Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932)
Extent: 239.5 cubic feet
Arrangement: The collection of papers is organized into four series: Series 1, Original Music Manuscripts; Series 2, Published Music; Series 3, Ephemera and Uniforms; and Series 4, Photographs. The original music manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by either composer or arranger and the published music is arranged sequentially by a number that was unique to the original Sousa music catalog. Unidentified and unnumbered music was placed at the end of each grouping of music. Whenever possible an identification of the format of the music for each title(i.e., full score, condensed score, piano score, and parts) has been identified with the corresponding abbreviations, FS, CS, PS, P. The ephemera, consisting of correspondence, newsclippings, programs, and artifacts, is arranged alphabetically by type of material. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Subjects: Band Concerts, Band Musicians, Bands, Brass Bands, Marines, United States, Military Bands, Military History, Military Music, Music Composition, Navy, United States, Sousa, John Philip, United States Marine Band
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of original and published music, arrangements of western European symphonic music for wind band by Sousa and other musicians, microfilm of original music, correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, programs and artifacts documenting the life and career of John Philip Sousa as musician, composer, bandleader, and "March King." Of particular interest are the original parts to "Stars and Stripes Forever," correspondence between A. Austin Harding and Sousa, and photographs of Sousa with the Band.
See also record series number 35/3/68.
Biographical Note
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, DC on November 6, 1854. It was an era of the 5-cent cigar, Saturday evening baths, the horse and buggy, candle-lit parlors and gas-illuminated street lights. During his formative years Sousa witnessed the destructive forces of the Civil War as a child growing up in his nation's Capitol. Later in life he experienced the new-found joys of Ford's automobile and the painful trauma of the War to end all wars.
Sousa joined the United States Marine Band as an apprentice musician on June 9, 1868, not even fourteen years old, and remained until 1875. His Portuguese father, a trombonist with the band since 1850, believed if his son was a member of the band he could more readily monitor his son's youthful exploits and mentor his gift for music. Five years after leaving the Marine Band Sousa was asked to return as its director in 1880, a post that he retained until August 1, 1892.
It was under Sousa's leadership that the Marine Band finally gained permission from President Benjamin Harrison to tour beyond the immediate region surrounding Washington, DC (i.e., Richmond, Baltimore and Philadelphia). This first tour performance took place at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. After meeting David Blakely in Chicago Sousa was convinced that his talents would not be utilized to the fullest with the Marine Band. Sousa signed a contract with Blakely on May 27, 1892 to form and direct a civilian band of his own creation. On July 30, 1892 Sousa received a second honorable discharge from the Marine Band and began establishing what today has become best known as the John Philip Sousa Band by seeking out and engaging the finest nationally and internationally recognized musicians from America and Europe. Among the most celebrated soloists to play with the band were Herbert L. Clarke (cornet), Arthur Pryor (trombone), Simone Mantia (euphonium), Estelle Liebling (soprano) and Maud Powell (violin).
Sousa made annual transcontinential tours with his famous band from 1892 until 1931. In those thirty-nine years the Sousa Band traveled over 700,000 miles and presented over 10,000 concerts in 1,000 cities throughout the world. Between the months of May and October 1893 the Sousa Band, for a repeat performance, furnished the music for the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas in 1492. This engagement solidified Sousa's legacy in the annals of music and band history. During his life time Sousa composed 137 marches, 15 operettas, 5 overtures, 11 suites, 24 dances, 28 fantasies, and 322 arrangements of nineteenth-century western European symphonic works. In addition he wrote numerous reviews, articles on music and music education, and seven books.
Sousa's "The Washington Post" march, written for the Washington Post Amateur Author's Association ceremony held at the Smithsonian Institution on June 15, 1889, became a sensation as the accompaniment to the newly created "two-step" dance. This truly new American dance replaced the popular western-European waltz as the most popular form of entertainment in America and Europe. On Christmas Day 1896 Sousa composed his most recognizable work, "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the only march ever declared the national march of the United States. This work was the last piece that Sousa conducted in public before he died in Reading, PA on March 6, 1932.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
1932
Acquisition Method:
The music and papers were bequested to the University Bands in 1932. Thirty-nine trunks and two boxes arrived at the University in August of that year. Responsibility for the papers was transferred to the University Library in 1994.
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- Series 3: Ephemera and Uniforms
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- Box 727
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- Folder 1: Band Books and Covers - 2nd E-flat Clarinet
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- Folder 2: Band Books and Covers - Solo Clarinet
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- Folder 3: Band Books and Covers - 1st Clarinet (I)
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- Folder 4: Band Books and Covers - 1st Clarinet (II)
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- Folder 5: Band Books and Covers - 1st Clarinet (III)
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- Folder 6: Band Books and Covers - 2nd Clarinet (II)
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- Folder 7: Band Books and Covers - 3rd Clarinet
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- Folder 8: Band Books and Covers - Alto Clarinet
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- Folder 9: Band Books and Covers - Bass Clarinet
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- Folder 10: Band Books and Covers - Alto Saxophone
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- Folder 11: Band Books and Covers - Baritone Saxophone
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- Folder 12: Band Books and Covers - 2nd Bassoon
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- Folder 13: Band Books and Covers - Solo Cornet
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- Folder 14: Band Books and Covers - 2nd Cornet
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- Folder 15: Band Books and Covers - 1st Horn
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- Folder 16: Band Books and Covers - 2nd Horn
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- Folder 17: Band Books and Covers - 2nd Trombone
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- Folder 18: Band Books and Covers - Baritone
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- Folder 19: Band Books and Covers - Euphonium
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- Folder 20: Band Books and Covers - Bass Trombone
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- Folder 21: Band Books and Covers - Timpani
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- Folder 22: Band Books and Covers - Small Drum
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- Folder 23: Band Books and Covers - Bass Drum
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- Folder 24: Band Books and Covers - Solo Bass
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- Folder 25: Band Books and Covers
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- Box 728: National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands (P), 1889
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- Box 729: National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands (P), 1889
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- Box 730: National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands (P), 1889
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- Box 731: National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands (P), 1889
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- Box 732
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- Folder 1: The Fifth String, 1902
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- Folder 2: Pipetown Sandy, 1905
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- Folder 3: The Trumpet and Drum, 1954
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- Folder 4: Gospel Gems by W. Warren Bentley, 1878
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- Box 733
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- Folder 1: Sousa performance library inventory no. 1, ca. 1925
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- Folder 2: Sousa performance library inventory no. 2, ca. 1925
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- Folder 3: Sousa performance library inventory no. 3, ca. 1925
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- Folder 4: Sousa performance library inventory no. 4, ca. 1925
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- Box 734
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- Folder 1: Caricatures, Undated
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- Folder 2: Correspondence: Harding and Sousa, ca. 1930s
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- Folder 3: Correspondence: McCabe and Mills, 1915-1920
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- Folder 4: News Clippings: St. Louis Exposition, 1895
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- Folder 5: News Clippings: 1911-1920
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- Folder 6: News Clippings: University of Illinois, Undated
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- Folder 7: News Clippings: Undated
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- Folder 8: News Clippings: Sousa Obituaries, 1932
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- Folder 9: Patron List, Undated
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- Folder 10: Centennial Press Release, 1954
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- Folder 11: Postage Stamps (Sousa), Undated
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- Folder 12: Program: Sousa and United States Marine Band, 1882
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- Folder 13: Programs: 1901-1910
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- Folder 14: Programs 1911-1920
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- Folder 15: Programs: 1921-1930
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- Folder 16: Programs: Fragments, Undated
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- Folder 17: Programs: Manhattan Beach Amusement Park, 1895
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- Folder 18: Programs: Miscellaneous, 1915-1920
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- Folder 19: Programs: Panama Pacific Exposition, 1915
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- Folder 20: Programs: Undated
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- Folder 21: Programs: University of Illinois 32nd Annual Concert, 1922
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- Folder 22: Publicity, Undated
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- Folder 23: Sousa`s University of Illinois Band Audition, 1930
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- Folder 24: Postcards
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- Box 735: The Irish Dragoon (Photocopies of TEXT, PS, and FS from Library of Congress)
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- Box 736
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- Folder 1: Sousa Cigars, UI Sousa Award, Undated
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- Box 737
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- Folder 1: Unidentified pencil and ink sketches and music books, Undated
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- Box 739
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- Folder 8: Published music, newsclippings, correspondence, writing fragments, ca. 1900-1940
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- Box 746
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- Item 1: Black Sousa Band Hat
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.002.
- Box 747
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- Item 1: Black Sousa Band Hat
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.003.
- Box 748
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- Item 1: Black Sousa Band Hat
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.004.
- Box 749
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- Item 1: Black Sousa Band Hat
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.005.
- Box 750
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- Item 1: Black Sousa Band Uniform Blazer
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.001A.
- Item 2: Black Sousa Band Uniform Pants
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- Accession No. 2007.120951.001B.
- Box 751
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- Folder 1: Sousa Band South African Tour Concert Program, 1911
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- Folder 2: Sousa Band Los Angeles Concert Programs, Undated
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- Folder 3: Sousa Band Matinee Program, Undated
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- Folder 4: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 34-37, 3-4, Undated
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- Folder 5: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 20-27, Undated
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- Folder 6: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 5, 7, 10-12, 20, Undated
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- Folder 7: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-2, 28-33, Undated
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- Folder 8: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 15-22, Undated
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- Folder 9: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-2, 9-13, Undated
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- Australia
- Folder 10: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-13, Undated
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- New Zealand
- Folder 11: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs, 1911
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- Farewell Visit, England
- Folder 12: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-6, Undated
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- Folder 13: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-6, Special Opening Program, Undated
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- Folder 14: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-6, Undated
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- Folder 15: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 8-11, Undated
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- Folder 16: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 1-3, Undated
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- Folder 17: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 4-7, Undated
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- Folder 18: Sousa Band World Tour Concert Programs 3-6, Undated
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- Folder 19: Concert Bulletin, 1911
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- Official Program of Will L. Greenbaum's Attractions
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- Item 1: Sousa Portrait, Undated
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- Color oil painting.
- Box 763: Sousa's Podium
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- Box 767
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- Item 1: Handpainted Box, ca. 1903
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- "Purchased by Mr. Sousa in Russia during his Band tour of about 1903"
- Box 768
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- Folder 1: Engraved Music Folder, undated
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- Tin, leather, and rope
- Item 1: Sousa Steamer Trunk, ca. 1900
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- C.A. Taylor Trunk Works. Oak and Cast Iron Steamer Trunk, Yellow Stenciled letters on top reading: "Sousa Band." Accession Number 2004.1209051.002.
- Item 2: Sousa Steamer Trunk, ca. 1900
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- Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company Steamer Trunk. Oak with cast iron fittings and leather handles. The top of the trunk has a company label with handwritten note reading, "Old Photographs." Accession Number 2004.1209051.003.
- Box 777
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- Item 1: Ship Decanter, 1924
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- Pewter; given as a 70th birthday gift. Inscription reads: "To the young conductor Lieut. Com. John Philip Sousa as a birthday token from some of his Chicago friends, 1924." Accession Number 2018.120951.001
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