From 1880 until his death, Sousa began focusing exclusively on conducting and wrote marches during this time.

Sousa wrote 136 marches, published by the Sam Fox Publishing Company beginning in 1917 and continuing until his death.

Sousa wrote marches for several American universities, including University of Illinois, University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, Marquette University, and University of Minnesota.

In addition, Sousa wrote a march based on themes from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado, the elegant overture Our Flirtations, a number of musical suites, etc.

Sousa also wrote numerous articles about trapshooting.

In music, Myrrha was the subject of an 1876 band piece by John Phillip Sousa, Myrrha Gavotte and in 1901, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet each wrote cantatas titled Myrrha.

Piccolos are now only manufactured in the key of C ; however, they were once also available in D. It was for this D piccolo that John Philip Sousa wrote the famous solo in the final repeat of the closing section ( trio ) of his march " The Stars and Stripes Forever ".

Formerly the bandmaster of the United States Marine Band, Sousa wrote military marches like " Stars and Stripes Forever " that reflected his " nostalgia for home and country ", giving the melody a " stirring virile character ".

Enthusiastic, the King wrote, on June 1909, to the President of the Council of Ministers ( the Prime Minister ) Wenceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima, to make him aware of the reorganisation of the Socialist Party ( under Alfredo Aquiles Monteverde ) and to remind him of the importance of collaborating with the Socialists, "... so that, we will empty their supporters from the Republican Party, and orient them into a useful and productive force.

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

John Philip Sousa wrote a descriptive piece for band memorializing Sheridan.

John Philip Sousa, who wrote the Presidential Polonaise, intended to keep visitors moving briskly through the White House receiving line.

John Philip Sousa wrote " Foshay Tower-Washington Memorial March " for the dedication of the Foshay Tower in 1929.

John Philip Sousa conducted music, including " Foshay Tower – Washington Memorial March " a march he wrote for the occasion.

Manuel da Costa wrote a number of Petrarchian sonnets, Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga showed himself an ardent lyricist and cultivator of form, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga became famous by the harmonious verses of his love poem " Marília de Dirceu ", while the " Poesias sacras " of António Pereira Sousa Caldas have a certain mystical charm though metrically hard.

In his autobiography, Marching Along, Sousa wrote that he composed the march on Christmas Day 1896.

Sousa wrote lyrics to the piece, although they are not as familiar as the music itself.

John Philip Sousa wrote On Parade and a few others, but his writing in the circus march style is not renowned.

Others who wrote in a similar vein included Reginald de Koven ( 1859 – 1920 ), John Philip Sousa ( 1854 – 1932 ), Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml.

Paulo Bonavides wrote that the Moderating Power " can only be appreciated for its role on the consolidation of national unity and the stability of the political system of the Empire " on “ a continent politically flagellated by civil hatreds and pulverized into weak and rival republics .” For Galvão Sousa, the Moderating Power under Pedro II, “ created the space for the famous ' dictatorship of honesty.

Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares ( 1926, Catembe-2003 ) was a poet from Mozambique who wrote in the Portuguese language.

In there, he also befriended Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa, and wrote a poem named " Deusa incruenta ", based on Sousa's work " Terribilis Dea ".

Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho ( Recife, Pernambuco, April 19, 1886 – Rio de Janeiro, October 13, 1968 ) was a poet, literary critic, and translator.

* Manuel José de Carvalho Melo e Daun de Albuquerque Sousa e Lorena ( 1881 – 1886 ), 6th Count of Oeiras and 5th Marquess of Pombal ;

Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.

The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s at the request of John Philip Sousa, who was unhappy with the hélicons used at that time by the United States Marine Band.

Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.

The Sousa Band toured from 1892 – 1931, performing at 15, 623 concerts.

The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, a modified helicon, was created by J. W. Pepper – a Philadelphia instrument maker who created the instrument in 1893 at Sousa ’ s request using several of his suggestions in its design.

Sousa died of heart failure at the age of 77 on March 6, 1932, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Sousa served in the U. S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892 ; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service and was a Warrant Officer at the time he resigned.

John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band at the inaugural parade and ball.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera ( Santorini ), traditionally led by Battus I, at a site ten miles from its associated port, Apollonia ( Marsa Sousa ).

There is extensive local theater, with many productions held at the large stone auditorium, built in the city's downtown in 1929 and inaugurated with a concert by John Phillip Sousa.

* John Philip Sousa conducted the Sousa Band on October 26, 1926 at the facility that became known as Slagle Auditorium in 1929.

The first Governor-General appointed by John III was Tomé de Sousa, who in 1549 founded the city of Bahia ( known at the time as São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, Holy Saviour of the Bay of All Saints ).

Sousa at first rejected his advances but Lincke was persistent.

However, three months later Sousa was again singing Frau Luna at the Apollo.

Lincke experienced another wave of success from Paris, leading to him spending many nights out on the social scene, leaving Sousa at home to attend to her maternal commitments.

A similar episode occurred later when Coelho de Sousa seized the house of a wealthy foreign resident in Jinzhou of Fujian, which led authorities to cut off supplies to the Portuguese ; the Portuguese then attacked and ransacked a nearby village for supplies, which prompted Chinese authorities to destroy thirteen of their ships while thirty Portuguese survivors of this settlement fled to the Portuguese settlement at Macau in 1549.

In 1554, Leonel de Sousa — a later Governor of Macau — established positive relations through an agreement with Cantonese authorities and in 1557 the Ming court finally gave consent for a permanent and official Portuguese trade base at Macau.

In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon ( a former soloist with the John Philip Sousa Orchestra ).

The course of her life had changed when, aged 16, she got a job as a waitress at the Alexandra Palace so that she could see the composer John Philip Sousa, but she overheard two gentlemen discussing the loss of a target for an act in which they shot an apple off a girl ’ s head.

In 1530, an expedition led by Martim Afonso de Sousa arrived to patrol the entire coast, ban the French, and to create the first colonial villages, like São Vicente, at the coast.