John Phillip Soussa - Nobles of the Mystic Shrine

[kelseyb520]

playing alto and i just love that high e flat

[PhillipMcRoin]

@mknight333 get the fuck out of here with your stupid illuminati bullshit. Shove it up your ass

[BlargeMan]

I play 3rd Trumpet in this piece and even that is exciting!

[antonioMuSiC001]

the only song in a long time that I've played with important parts in the trombones :D

[magspags999]

the people with the bell trees need to learn to cut off. lol :)

[cemab4y]

@jimmyboy I was made a Shriner at Kena Shrine Center, Fairfax VA. I belong to Bowling Green Lodge #73, Bowling Green KY

[iloveboston28]

1:56 Trombones!

[Logg66]

it is refreshing to play this after being so used to Stars and Stripes Forever or Washington Post

[sousafan100]

ah the eastman wind ensemble playing nobles of the mystic shrine - it doesn't get any better than this - thanks zzahier!

[yuhhhashley]

we're playing this :) i'm a first trombone player

oh, this just bugs me, can you please spell sousa right

[OTooleBoy213]

Im playing 1st trombone on this piece to. HELLO KEY SIGNATURE! lol :p

[chubbymuzicman77]

Awesome song, very fun to play..even on the bass clarinet. :)

[cemab4y]

The nobles of the Mystic Shrine is a real organization. We run a network of FREE hospitals for crippled and burned children. See (dot) beashrinernow (dot) com

[jimmyboy99]

@cemab4y Hey Noble, what temple you belong to? Also what lodge? Message me. I belong to Orak in Michigan City, Indiana.

[cemab4y]

The nobles of the Mystic Shrine is a real organization. We run a network of FREE hospitals for crippled and burned children.

[Audinos]

This march was written for the Washington Shrine, and given that Sousa was a high-ranking Freemason and that Shriners fancy themselves as some kind of Arabic association, he gave this march a rather Eastern fell with the minor key and the Schellenbaum. This is perhaps the only American march which calls for a Schellenbaum (and those things are quite hard to find in the United States). Another name besides Turkish crescent is the jingling Johnny.

[dangerfan2005]

THAT'S THE WORD!  (actually 'schellenbaum') a/k/a a Turkish Crescent. Thank you for taking my question seriously. Vielen Dank!

[vonmazur1]

"Schillenbaum" Lit. "Bell tree" Ever;y German Band has one...

[mpjmt]

On the second time we played the very last repeat, we slowed down majorly and gradually sped up. It was a nice effect.

[strawberriswirl]

My band in sixth grade just played this song, I thought it sounded like freaky circus lol I played the triangle : )

[BlueFur33]

Hmm..for some reason this song reminds my band of a demented circus...the begining mostly. I play bassoon, another greman instrument! Yay!

[mpjmt]

It's a glockenspiel!!! 8D

My band is playing this now, too. Go Southmoreland! ;D

[nuidea]

my school's band is playinq this!!...it is so amazinq!.... and my director is a qood teacher as well

[446pandas]

im in 8th grade and our band is playin this! is sooo fun! i cant stop whistling it!

[tubonianflute]

@446pandas

What city do you go to that plays this in 8th grade? I played this at All-State!

[446pandas]

charlotte nc

my middle school (jm robinson) has a really good director. were also playin corsican litany

[dangerfan2005]

What do you call the instrument that makes the "bell" sounds?

[tubonianflute]

@dangerfan2005

Bells?

[dangerfan2005]

hardy har har! no, it's a prussian instrument if I remember right with a preposterous German name It is carreid at the front of a parade. My old Sousa albumm with this march had the name, but I lost that 25 years ago.

[adawgisagangster]

this is soo hard..i play first alto sax. but i cant play the high sixteenth notes...:(

[sailorwaterprincess]

We played this my freshman year I was..um...last flute? XD

I hated it, too difficult to play. Now it's a breeze, I bet if I get it back it'll be so easy~

[DrStrangelove346]

This was the last song I ever played in high school. I was the first and only trumpet.

[ibriveadus]

Sounds like Freddie Fennell to me!

[3387279]

we play this for state some weeks ago and we got a 1 1 2 too but i play the contra bass clarinet it was a fun day and we had a piccolo too

[ChiquillaD]

We played this song for band & we got a 1 1 2..it's a fun song to play but we had a piccolo & it sounded really cool

[wiiman250]

This song is fun to play. We're playing it at my high school right now (I am 1st trombone). It's fast and high, and that's why I love it!

[JupiterIV]

Well, in your opinion, wouldn't you say that this march is a little TOO Slavic at times for John Phillip Sousa?

[tromboner13805]

love this song playing for our wind ensemble