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The Marcha Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾtʃa reˈal]; lit. ' Royal March ') is the national anthem of Spain.It is one of only four national anthems in the world – along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, San Marino and Kosovo – that have no official lyrics. [2]
In 1926, Harry Lemaire (1862–1963) was appointed director of the marching band. Following his service in the British Army, Lemaire had been bandmaster under Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish–American War and was a friend and colleague of John Philip Sousa. Under his leadership, the band earned its name when it became the first college ...
One of these marches, Grandioso (1901), is often featured in parades. Grandioso incorporates a theme from the fourteenth of Franz Liszt ’s Hungarian Rhapsodies . Additional well-known marches include Brooke’s Chicago Marine Band (1901), Brooke’s Triumphal (1904), Salutation (1914), and University of Pennsylvania Band (1900).
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The tune is widely used by soccer fans, with the trio/grandioso section sung with the words "Here We Go". The supporters of Spanish association football team Valencia CF used to sing it with the words " Xe que bó! " which means something like "Oh! How good" in Valencian, and those words have become a symbol for the team.
8 march can be recognized immediately by its common "da-bah-da-bah" or "DA-da-DA-da" sound. An example of a 6 8 march is "The Washington Post March", also by Sousa. 2 4 time is much like cut-time, except fewer notes appear in a measure, as here the quarter-note gets the beat instead of the half-note; but there are still only two beats per measure.
The Young Leadership Council, a nonprofit civic organization, puts on 12 three-hour concerts from March to June. In addition to hearing local bands playing jazz, rock, funk, swamp pop, and Latin ...
Sousa considered this march an echo of the Spanish–American War, and it first appeared in an operetta in 1899. The Trio changes meter from compound ot simple meter, a rare device in Sousa's marches. A brief extension of the first trio strain functions as a break strain before the second trio strain.