Boston City Band plays the National Emblem March

[CRvids101]

@mariokartcollector that sounds like it stinks! we have (in our symphonic band) 11 clarinets, 6 flutes, 9 trumpets, 4 horns, 7 trombones, 3 euphoniums, 7 alto saxes, 1 tenor sax, 1 bari sax, 2 bassoons, 2 oboes, (one serves as an english horn sometimes) 1 bass clarinet,(sometimes we have a contra) and 6 tubas. and thats just the band you have to audition for.

[Littlebocco]

@Heartlover1717 O then I've heard wrong thanks for telling me who it was by

[Littlebocco]

@Heartlover1717 true true but they usually are used in marching bands but then again wasnt this made by john philip sousa creator of the sousaphone?

[Littlebocco]

uhhh why is there a sousa



[MrFantasticalism]

our high school band had to turn in our music so i dont get to keep it! it's also a great song, i play the saxophone

[Raypena45]

we played this in our honor band:)

[meaume]

Do you know it by... Sidney Bechet ?

[Uptheirons6six6]

This is a pretty good march but the band I'm in pretty much sucks because we're so small. We got like 6 alto saxes, 1 baritone, 2 trombones, 1 tuba, 3 trumpets, like 9 flutes, 6 clarinets, and me the 1 tenor sax player, which sucks because like this song for example, I have the soli and I have to play over the whole band(which is freaking hard) but I manage it somehow. I mainly do it by using a plastic reed because it's never cold and never breaks.

[Glarfugus]

@Uptheirons6six6 That's actually not a half bad sized band - You've got a good amount of woodwinds (although there shouldn't be six alto saxes, 2 is enough for even a symphony band) and pretty much all parts of the harmonies and the like should be covered. The only thing maybe missing is a trombone and then you'd be able to play most beginner concert band repertoire.

[MarioKartCollecter12]

@Uptheirons6six6 haha, well, my high school only has 1 alto sax, 1 tenor sax, 1 baritone sax, 2 trumpets, 3 flutes, 1 clarinet, and a Euphonium (me)... Having a small band sucks especially since last year my high school had a lot of members!

[0tubachick0]

I actually like this march. As a tuba player, I've generally become fairly calloused to the thought of playing marches, but this one actually doesn't sound "exactly like" every other march. It has its own style and pizzaz.

[7435t]

I play alto sax in my middle school band and we did this song for district band festival

[45thSFX]

Wait... difficult sections? What parts in this song are difficult, and for what instrument? For us alto saxophones, it's rather easy >_>

[Kuzya3k]

Perfect!

[Scaltt]

these are high notes for first note clarinets

[Aaron123Lane]

me and my band are playing this at my band concert im in 8th grade by the way

[himatsuri]

But I bet you didn't play it this fast did you?

[bubblyboutJesus]

me too! it's hard, but i like it! i play the flute.

[Kuzya3k]

it should be a little bit slower.

[manik6687]

no it shouldn't, my band is playing this at the moment (sight-reading exercises) and we just got and are playing it almost this fast. Personally, my favorite part is the trio, and the cornet fanfare at the end.

[wurlitzerwilly]

Remember it's meant for troops to march to at a steady rate, to get them where they're going in good time. Also, any slower and it would start getting funeralistic on the parade ground.

[aznpincer1]

I play clarinet in my high school band, and I like this march and all... but I am used to playing second parts but this year I got moved up to first part since my section leaders said I had improved. The runs are kind of in the high altissimo register and some of the rhythms are pretty fast.. guess practice, practice, practice will be the way to go. Any clarinet players out there who play the 1st part of this march? Any advice on nailing the runs and the double high E and F?

[bryandawkins]

Laura sang part of this when she was stoned on the dick van Dyke show. " oh the monkey chased hi tail around the flag pole" and when I hear that part in march I smile.

[daudert]

Yeah, really; it IS a march.

It isn't supposed to be played for concerts, sitting down in front of audiences.

You're supposed to play it while marching.

[re6356]

This is not a SONG!!!! it`s a bloody march and a great one when it`s played by a military band or the Boston Pops.

[cheddarjack7]

i hate this song....were playing it in band.

[lowslowCRX]

What are you talking about, this is a good song.

[applekillerguy]

wait i think i know that piece acidemic festival overture and i think hes name was bhrams not brahms but yes the national emblem was by E.E bagley

[metequ]

yeah it was bagley brahms or something is in the acedemic festival overture another piece we played

[applekillerguy]

did you know that this was made in europe by was it bhams or that other guy i forgot hes name but there is also part of the the star spangled banner in this.

[wilegfass]

I'm playing this song right now for band. Before this, I always thought the euphonium was a neglected instrument.

Not so in this piece. Love the parts were its just us and the trombones.

[applekillerguy]

i played this for the south distract music festival march 1,2008 in hawaii

[applekillerguy]

i played this along with acedemic festival overture in the south central music festival or something in hawaii march first. and moa'aloua or how every you spell it as 1 of the top 10 in the national sounded excellent and it was very unually since they all move at the exact same time standing and siting

[OldGregsBaileys]

haha this march is so fun! im envious of those flutes. They get so many rests. Alto Saxophone :]

[poopnia]

thanks for the confidence. :)

[poopnia]

this song is hard... :( im in a middle school band.. :( hard.

[SexyRexyLover8]

My Middle School Sym 1 band played this.

The Bass Clarinet part was AWESOME.

I loved this song!

[rosie71350]

it sure was!

[Homestar61588]

what do you mean!?!? all we have are like quarter note things...

who's who in navy blue was a lot more fun

but yeah this songs pretty cool either way

[gunnerdan]

i remember playing this song in jr high. my director was a conducter in the korean war, and he always had a tear in his eye when we played this song.

[tyedyekindaguy]

love the trio

[Andorian12]

Wow, I'm playing that march for my band right now. We're a very small band, only about 20 members :)

[SamFerdoo]

Written in 1906 by little-known New Englander E. E. Bagley, this stupendous march rivals anything written by Sousa and would have been just hitting the first peak of its popularity around 1914, as The Great War broke out in Europe.