march
(1929)
John Philip Sousa, composer
John Philip Sousa composed this piece after seventeen hundred Texas
students signed a petition asking Sousa to compose a march for them. The
students were from College of Industrial Arts, an all-girls school in
Denton, Texas, known today as Texas Women’s University. The march is cast
in the easy 6/8 swing that Sousa so often chose.
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