The Gallant Seventh
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The Gallant Seventh was John Philip Sousa
's most famous march
in the 1920s. It was written in 1922 and is the only one of all Sousa marches that has two breakstrains, following pattern IAABBCDCEC(EC). The tempo is slower than the majority of Sousa marches.
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
's most famous march
March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...
in the 1920s. It was written in 1922 and is the only one of all Sousa marches that has two breakstrains, following pattern IAABBCDCEC(EC). The tempo is slower than the majority of Sousa marches.