"National Emblem March" (Vermonter E.E. Bagley)

[LittleMonster099]

i play alto sax and this peice is SOOOOO EFFING HARD!!! the rhythms are easy but, technically the song is HARD!!!!!!

[FlierFrank172]

Which three flags are the most instantly recognizable? Great Britain, the USA and Israel. Now let the protests begin.

[FlierFrank172]

A pox upon those who run ads before the videos begin.

[FlierFrank172]

It doesn't get any better than this.....National Emblem performed by the New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein.

[petey815]

1:43! That's what I've been playing in the middle of jingle bells at Tubachristmas!

[Mikehooperz]

My parrot can whistle this tune - and he's British.

[TheDapperdan75]

@Rready555 I'm glad you disabled the ratings for this video. This song will forever outlast any youtube ratings attributed to it. Thanks for uploading it.

[mmh41593]

Go America!

[trombonemassa]

Good performance, but there isn't enough low brass; marches are supposed to have a very powerful bass line. I noticed that there were sections in the song in which the trumpets played the parts that should have been played by the trombones.

[dmelevator1]

Wasn't this deemed by Sousa as one of the best marches that he "didn't write"?

[rwhit9351]

@dmelevator1 Correct

[spitfireale60]

Cleft?

[Mikehooperz]

I taught my parrot to whistle to this tune!

[smooth73074]

We play this in our town band and I love it. Always make the hair on the back of my neck stand up!

[BlackFluteChance]

*is ready to start waving an American flag around* This should've totally been our National Anthem. It makes you want to jump up and act. I mean, no offense to Mr. Key, but the "Star Spangled Banner" sounds like a dirge.

I have to play this for a wind ensemble concert tomorrow and our conductor decided to give us this piece today. DX The other two flutes, sad to say, don't have a clue about what to do and I'm stressed enough playing this. The conductor told them to wing it and me to play. DDDX

[spitfireale60]

This is SO much better than "Stars and Stripes Forever."

[GiuliaDj]

The Dirty Dozen. Good song!

[paddyosee]

Actually, this march was composed when Bagley was living in Keene, NH; the Gordon-Bissel Post #4 American Legion Band in Keene uses it as their signature tune (I know it very well, as I was with the band for several years).

[xL4dx7]

1:44 is the best :D

[iambobthebullyJMD]

@xL4dx7 Totally agree

[bbrf534a]

@xL4dx7 Quite so!! I have listened to this march for more than 50 years and the four notes in a row make a fantastic change. When I was a child I used to go to auto races in Balboa Stadium in San Diego (1955). This march was always played before the main race as the cars circled around the track before the start. That repeated experience of hearing that has never left me. Great addition to Utube.

[P5eudonym]

Yarrr! Proud to be a Vermonter. Hah. Great track too.

[Blackpigy102]

i love this song. have to play it tommorrow actually for a concert. i love being a 1st trumpet in this song since they carry the melody alot:)

[Jguy365]

we're doing this song in band right now... hard, but great song!

[BDFDJOE]

to my knowledge, that March, , or parts of it, are used at, U S Ceremonials, whenever our, National Colors, are moved about on a parade-field... Composer, Bagley, lived in, Keene, N H, for a time, and at the end of, picturesque, " Main Street ", there is a beautiful, Bandstand; most befitting a location maybe where his famous composition is still, frequently played, on a fine, Summer's Evening.... bdfd joe

[Sully3322]

were playing this right now....

i play the 1st part trombone and the trombone part kicks ass maijorly it is probably the best song we have ever played in band!!!

[raystormx]

lol....symphonic band is playing this song....but I'd rather hear this in a march, not a concert.

[BenWebster10]

we're playin this in my hs band lol(:!

[romocowboysfan]

this song always reminds me of "sgt. bilko"

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Sousa himself once said that he thought this was the best march ever composed and he wished it was his.

[uspunk]

OMG we are playing this in our concert band right now, and holy crap i love this song so much (:

im playing baritone and my lord this song is beauitful (: i have so much fun playing it !

[WFR]

I feel so sorry for you. What you just said just made a tear fall from my eye ;/ I hope your life will turn around and you will find somthing valuable to do with your time

[harvythewondergerbil]

you're a very shallow person if you think that music isn't important. I can tell that you need to make fun of others to make yourself feel good. Enjoy making 10,000 a year and marrying someone just as dumb and shallow as yourself.

[WFR]

Oh well thanks. Im not in the mood of hating anymore. The comment i originally responded to was just so funny

[db0255]

this march is better than most of sousas'...love it!

[JazzyEuphoner]

We're playing this as our main march this year in my school's marching band, I get to play the awesome euphonium solo.

[Scaltt]

I played this in a concert. I loved playing it.

[SarahMDGal]

I am a Vermont native and am very proud when I hear of wonderful things like this! I studied a lot of the life of John Philip Sousa, and for all these years I thought it was his piece. I'm glad to be wrong! Thank you for sharing this tidbit of American and Vermont History!

[Callavsg94]

This is a very good March! He is played wonderful!

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

By the way find the version "Alte Kameraden Marsch" by the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting.....you have to use the spelling "marsch" to find it.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

If you like good marches find "Alte Kameraden" by Carl Teike. Yes I'm 100% American and proud of it but enjoy the piece I mentioned just as a good march. Carl Teike died in 1922 long before the little corporal became a factor so the march doesn't have the Nazi stench about it.

[barbarabuoncristiani]

Does anyone remember the words? All I can remember is: "And the monkey rapped his tail around the flagpole and caught a bad cold in his a...... " was there any more?

[yowhatzup1991]

I remember this song...first song i played in high school... Loved playing this song.

[re6356]

This is a very driving march, you would`nt want to lay in bed if this was being played.

I bet a guy with one leg could march to this rouser; great stuff.

[emoClarinetist]

my dad and his fellow vets marched to this song when he graduated from the Navy. :)

[S5L80]

Yeah me too! I loved marching to this song at Air Force ROTC Field Training graduation. Put a pep in my step lol.

[xboilermaker]

Can anyone tell me who performed the version on "The Dirty Dozen". There is nothing to compare. It is conspicuously missing from the movie soundtrack and no mention is made of who performed it, or even of the march. The middle part was played with more pronounced drum paradiddles when the fake General was about to visit, and I believe another portion was played during troop transport.

[ElevatorMan2012]

Why'd you disable ratings?

[KapnKoolio]

AKA "The Monkey Wrapped His Tail Around the Flagpole", right?

[crazygamer123456]

Yes,lol thats the only way I found the name of this song.

[dewey44]

Written back when Vermont was still part of the United States.

[ElevatorMan2012]

In case you didn't hear, it still is.

[tinkerfan226]

i have to play this for jr. honors band and im terrible at the saxophone and we only have like 2 practices and the concert is on december 5th so this comment is basically saying that this is a hard song!

[X4vi3R34]

hey im going to that festival, aat marywood right?

im on first cornet for this song and its really fun

[tinkerfan226]

yea its marrywood and im not the brightest person but whats a cornet

[X4vi3R34]

its a trumpet

[ElevatorMan2012]

A cornet is basically a small trumpet. Not the exact same thing.

[HMKGman1]

A softer trumpet.

[tinkerfan226]

did you see me i was the girl with the red sax and were you one of the horses?

[RReady555]

Hope your concert went well, young friend!

-RR

[Tobi324]

@tinkerfan226 this song actually isnt very hard. our middle school symphonic band sight read this with only a couple troubles

[ElWongus]

@Tobi324 Well, it depends on the arrangement. When I went to Boy's State we played a pretty easy arrangement. However, my high school plays a very, very tough arrangement of this march.

[YaboiScotty]

@tinkerfan226 i play bass cleft baritone when i first saw iwas like wtf!

[MegaSmashMonkey]

@tinkerfan226 mee too!



[carlahardyx]

The actually playing of this is terrbliey hard.. I wanna burn the sheet of music when I'm done with it...

[glaufenberg]

If someone could post "The Monkey Wrapped his Tail around the Flagpole"....

[RReady555]

In Googling those lyrics you'll find choices from "G" to "X" ratings... ;)

-RR

[Ibrabdeledl]

This march is amazing. I love it

[RReady555]

Thanks--amazing interweaving of themes. Bagley was an underrated genius.

Best,

-RR

[JackLipnick]

Thanks for uploading! It's a good reminder that not *all* the great marches were written by Sousa.

[RReady555]

It's one of the best, Jack--even manages to make the SSB sound tuneful. ;)

When was the last good American march written...WW II?

[JackLipnick]

So true. Not sure why the march is such an underutilized form. Maybe people can't separate the music from the militarism and patriotism.