?TheLiberty Bell? transcribed here for Brass Quintet, is another one of John PhilipSousa?s famous marches and the theme to the Monty Python TV series. Thistranscription is of intermediate to advanced intermediate leveldifficulty. To view and listen to thispiece in its entirety as well as hundreds of other arrangements andtranscriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit www.lincolnmusicpublications.com. Playing time: 3:35

?TheThunderer? transcribed here for Brass Quintet, is another one of John PhilipSousa?s famous marches. This transcription is of intermediate leveldifficulty. To view and listen to thispiece in its entirety as well as hundreds of other arrangements andtranscriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit www.lincolnmusicpublications.com. Playing time: 2:45

?SemperFidelis? transcribed here for Brass Quintet, is another one of John PhilipSousa?s famous marches and The Official March of the United States Marine Corps.This transcription is of intermediate to advanced intermediate leveldifficulty. To view and listen to thispiece in its entirety as well as hundreds of other arrangements andtranscriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit www.lincolnmusicpublications.com. Playing time: 2:45

The Liberty Bell March for Brass Quintet by John Philip Sousa Arranged by Jari Villanueva Score 2 Trumpets in Bb Horn in F (Eb Alto Horn) Trombone (Baritone TC) Tuba Drums (optional) Substitute parts provided It may be associated with Monty Python's Flying Circus but "The Liberty Bell" was written for Sousa's unfinished operetta The Devil's Deputy in 1893. Financing for the show fell through and shortly afterwards, Sousa and his band manager George Hinton attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As they watched the spectacle "America", in which a backdrop depicting the Liberty Bell was lowered, Hinton suggested "The Liberty Bell" as the title of Sousa's recently completed march. Coincidentally, Sousa received a letter from his wife, saying their son had marched in a parade in honor of the Liberty Bell which had been on a nation-wide tour. Sousa agreed. He sold "The Liberty Bell" to the John Church Company for publication, and it was an immediate success. The origin of the tune comes from the time Sousa heard Marcella Lindh, one of his soprano soloists, whistling a tune of her own creation. Sousa couldn?t get the melody out of his head and asked his soprano if he might use it in a march. She agreed, but didn?t know that her tune had been used until several years later when she happened to hear a European band perform the march.

An excellent setting of a Sousa march dedicated to the US Naval Reserve. Sousa joined the US Navy during WWI to help train musicians for the war effort. This march incorporates his song, ?Blue Ridge, I?m Coming Back To You? in the Trio section.The arrangement for brass quintet has an optional drum part and optional substitute parts for the horn and trombone.This grade 3 arrangement would be perfect for a patriotic setting or for in commemoration of World War I.

Sousa considered the Semper Fidelis March his finest work. He composed and dedicated it to the U.S. Marine Band in 1888 after a request by President Chester Arthur.

The instrumentation is for standard Brass Quintet: Trumpets in B-flat, Horn in F, Trombone & Tuba with optional piccolo trumpets and optional rubber hose for the horn in the middle section.