List of compositions by John Philip Sousa

This is a list of compositions by John Philip Sousa.

John Philip Sousa

By genre

Sources:[1][2]

Concert Pieces

• The Summer Girl (1901)
• Willow Blossoms (1916)

Fantasies

• In The Sweet Bye and Bye (1876)
• Sounds from the Revivals (1876)
• The International Congress (1876)
• Medley (1877)
• Adamsonia (1879)
• Home Sweet Home (1879)
• In Parlor and Street (1880)
• Out of Work (1880)
• Tyrolienne (1880)
• Under the Eaves (1880)
• The Blending of the Blue and the Gray (1887)
• Songs of Grace and Glory (1892)
• The Salute of the Nations (1893)
• Rose, Thistle and Shamrock (1901)
• In the Realm of the Dance (1902)
• Tipperary (1915)
• On the 5:15 (1916)
• In Pulpit and Pew (1917)
• A Study in Rhythms (1920)
• An Old-Fashioned Girl (1922)
• Music of the Minute (1922)
• The Merry-Merry Chorus (1923)
• On With The Dance (1923)
• Assembly of the Artisans (1924)
• Jazz America (1925)
• Where My Dreams Come True (1929)

Humoresques

• Look for the Silver Lining (1885)
• A Little Peach in the Orchard Grew (1885)
• The Stag Party (1885)
• Good-Bye (1892)
• The Band Came Back (1895)
• Showing Off Before Company (1919)
• Smiles (1919)
• Swanee (1920)
• Gallagher and Shean (1923)
• What Do You Do Sunday, Mary? (1924)
• The Mingling of the Wets and the Drys (1926)
• Follow the Swallow (1926)
• Oh, How I’ve Waited For You (1926)
• Among My Souvenirs (1928)

Marches

• Review (1873)
• Salutation (1873)
• The Phoenix March (1875) (lost)
• Revival March (1876)
• The Honored Dead (1876)
• Across the Danube (1877)
• Esprit de Corps (1878)
• Globe and Eagle (1879)
• On the Tramp (1879)
• Resumption March (1879)
• Our Flirtations (1880)
• Recognition March (1880)
• Guide Right (1881)
• President Garfield's Inauguration March (1881)
• In Memoriam: President Garfield's Funeral March (1881)
• Right Forward (1881)
• Yorktown Centennial (1881)
• Congress Hall (1882)
• Bonnie Annie Laurel (1883)
• Mother Goose (1883)
• Pet of the Petticoats (1883)
• Right-Left (1883)
• Transit of Venus (1883)
• The White Plume (1884)
• Mother Hubbard March (1885)
• Sound Off (1885)
• The Mikado March (1885) (utilizes themes from The Mikado)
• The Gladiator March (1886)
• The Rifle Regiment (1886)
• The Occidental (1887)
• Ben Bolt (1888)
• National Fencibles (1888)
• Semper Fidelis (1888) (Official march of the United States Marine Corps)
• The Crusader (1888)
• The Picadore (1889)
• The Quilting Party March (1889)
• The Thunderer (1889)
• The Washington Post March (1889)
• Hurray (1890)
• Corcoran Cadets (1890)
• High School Cadets (1890)
• The Loyal Legion (1890)
• The Wolverine March (1891)
• Homeward Bound (1891-92)
• March of the Royal Trumpets (1892)
• On Parade: The Lion Tamer (1892)
• The Bell of Chicago (1892)
• The Triton (1892)

• Manhattan Beach (1893)
• The Beau Ideal (1893)
• The Liberty Bell March (1893)
• The Directorate (1894)
• King Cotton (1895)
• El Capitan (1896) (based on his operetta of the same name)
• The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) (Official march of the United States)
• The Bride Elect (1897)
• The Charlatan (1898)
• Hands Across the Sea (1899)
• Hail to the Spirit of Liberty (1900)
• The Man Behind the Gun (1900)
• The Invincible Eagle (1901)
• The Pride Of Pittsburgh: Homage To Pittsburgh (1901)
• Imperial Edward (1902)
• Jack Tar (1903)
• The Diplomat (1904)
• The Free Lance (1906)
• Powhatan's Daughter (1907)
• Fairest of the Fair (1908)
• The Glory of the Yankee Navy (1909)
• The Federal (1910)
• From Maine to Oregon (1913)
• Colombia's Pride (1914)
• The Lamb's March (1914)
• The New York Hippodrome (1915)
• The Pathfinder of Panama (1915)
• America First (1916)
• Boy Scouts of America (1916)
• March of the Pan Americans (1916)
• Liberty Loan (1917)
• The Naval Reserve (1917)
• The White Rose (1917)
• U.S. Field Artillery March (1917) (Official march of the United States Army)
• Wisconsin Forward Forever (1917)
• Anchor and Star (1918)
• Flags of Freedom (1918)
• Sabre and Spurs (1918)
• Solid Men to the Front (1918)
• The Chantyman's March (1918)
• The Volunteers March (1918)
• USAAC March (1918)
• Wedding March (1918)
• Bullets and Bayonets (1919)
• The Golden Star (1919)
• Comrades of the Legion (1920)
• On the Campus (1920)
• Who's In Navy Blue (1920)
• Keeping in Step With the Union (1921)
• The Dauntless Battalion (1922)
• The Gallant Seventh (1923)
• March Of The Mitten Men: Power And Glory (1923)
• Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (1924)
• Marquette University March (1924)
• The Black Horse Troop (1924)
• The National Game (1925)
• Universal Peace (1925-26)
• Old Ironsides (1926)
• Sesqui-Centennial Exposition March (1926)
• The Gridiron Club (1926)
• The Pride Of The Wolverines (1926)
• Magna Carta (1927)
• Riders for the Flag (1927)
• The Atlantic City Pageant (1927)
• Minnesota March (1927)
• Golden Jubilee (1928)
• New Mexico (1928)
• Prince Charming (1928)
• University Of Nebraska (1928)
• Daughters of Texas (1929)
• Foshay Tower–Washington Memorial March (1929)
• La Flor De Sevilla (1929)
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers (1929) (rewritten in 1930)
• University of Illinois (1930)
• George Washington Bicentennial March (1930)
• Harmonica Wizard March (1930)
• The Legionnaires (1930)
• The Salvation Army (1930)
• The Wildcats: Salute To Kansas (1930-31)
• A Century of Progress (1931)
• Kansas Wildcats (1931)
• The Aviators (1931)
• The Circumnavigators Club (1931)
• The Northern Pines (1931)
• Library of Congress (1932, unfinished)

Operettas

• Katherine (1879)
• Florine (1881, unfinished)
• The Smugglers (1882)
• The Queen Of Hearts (1885)
• The Wolf (1888)
• Désirée (1890)
• The Devil's Deputy (1893, unfinished)
• El Capitan (1895)
• The Bride Elect (1897)
• The Charlatan (1898)
• Chris And The Wonderful Lamp (1899)
• The Free Lance (1905)
• The American Maid (1909)
• The Irish Dragoon (1915)
• The Victory (1915, unfinished)

Overtures

• Rivals (1877)
• Tally-Ho! (1886)
• Vautour: Sans Souci (1886)
• The Lamb's Gambol (1914)

Songs and Other Vocal Works

• Fall Tenderly, Roses (1869)
• Day and Night (1873)
• Wilt Thou Be True (1873)
• Te Deum in B-Flat (1874)
• O My Country (1874)
• Only a Dream (1876)
• Only Thee (1876)
• Ah Me! (1876)
• The Song of the Sea (1876)
• The Magic Glass (1877)
• The Free Lunch Cadets (1877)
• Love Me Little, Love Me Long (1877)
• Lonely (1877)
• Hoping (1877)
• ‘Deed I Has to Laugh (1877)
• Mavourneen Asthore (1878)
• Smick, Smack, Smuck (1878)
• When He Is Near (1880)
• Pretty Patty Honeywood (1881)
• A Rare Old Fellow (1881)
• Star of Light (1882)
• We’ll Follow Where the White Plume Waves (1884)
• The Window Blind (1887)
• Sweet Miss Industry (1887)
• My Own, My Geraldine (1887)
• O Ye Lilies White (1887)
• I Wonder (1888)
• O’Reilly’s Kettledrum (1889)
• Do We? We Do (1889)
• Love That Comes When May-Roses Blow (1889)
• 2:15 (1889)
• There’s Something Mysterious (1889)
• You’ll Miss Lots of Fun When You’re Married (1890)
• Nail the Flag to the Mast (1890)
• Reveille (1890)
• Stuffed Stork (1894)
• Maid of the Meadow (1897)
• The Trooping of the Colors (1898) (pageant)
• Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? (1899) (hymn)
• It’s a Thing We Are Apt to Forget (1900)
• The Messiah of Nations (1902) (hymn)
• I’ve Made My Plans for the Summer (1907)
• The Belle of Bayou Teche (1911)
• The Milkmaid (1914)
• We March, We March to Victory (1914) (hymn)
• Boots (1916)
• I Love Jim (1916)
• Come Laugh and Be Merry (1916)
• The Song of the Dagger (1916)
• Blue Ridge, I’m Coming Back to You (1917)
• The Love That Lives Forever (1917)
• When the Boys Come Sailing Home! (1918)
• We Are Coming (1918)
• The Toast (1918)
• Pushing On (1918)
• Lovely Mary Donnelly (1918)
• In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow (1918)
• The Fighting Race (1919)
• Non-Committal Declarations (1920) (vocal trio)
• The Last Crusade (1920) (ballad)
• While Navy Ships Are Coaling (1923)
• The Journal (1924)
• A Serenade in Seville (1924)
• There’s a Merry Brown Thrush (1926)
• Crossing the Bar (1926)
• Forever and a Day (1927)
• Love’s Radiant Hour (1928)
• Annabel Lee (1931)

Suites

• The Last Days of Pompeii (1893)
• Three Quotations (1895)
• Looking Upward (1902)
• At the King's Court (1904)
• People Who Live in a Glass House (1909)
• Dwellers of a Western World (1910)
• Tales of a Traveler (1911)
• Impressions at the Movies (1915)
• Camera Studies (1920)
• Leaves From My Notebook (1922)
• Cubaland (1925)

Tone Poem

• Sheridan's Ride (1890)
• The Chariot Race (1891)

Trumpet and Drum

• Four Marches For Regimental Drums And Trumpets (1884)
• Funeral March (1886)
• Gallant And Gay We'll March Away (1886)
• Good-Bye, Sweet Nannie Magee (1886)
• Hannah, My True Love (1886)
• Here's To Your Health, Sir! (1886)
• Hurrah! We Are Almost There (1886)
• Waltz (1886)
• With Steady Step (1886)

Waltzes and Other Dances

• Moonlight on the Potomac (1872)
• Cuckoo (1873) (galop)
• La Reine D’Amour (1874)
• Alexander (1876) (gavotte)
• Myrrha (1876) (gavotte)
• Sardanapalus (1877)
• Silver Spray (1878) (schottische)
• Paroles D’Amour (1880)
• Intaglio Waltzes (1884)
• Wissahickon (1885)
• Presidential Polonaise (1886)
• Sandalphon Waltzes (1886)
• La Reine de la Mer (1886)
• The Coquette (1887) (caprice)
• The Colonial Dames (1896)
• The Lady of the White House (1897)
• Queen of the Harvest (1899) (quadrille)
• The Gliding Girl (1912) (tango)
• With Pleasure (Dance Hilarious) (1912)
• Love’s But A Dance, Where Time Plays The Fiddle (1923) (foxtrot)
• Peaches and Cream (1924) (foxtrot)
• The Coeds of Michigan (1925)

References

1. "Works". John Philip Sousa. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
2. "The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa". www.marineband.marines.mil. Retrieved 2020-05-02.