El Capitan
John Philip Sousa Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'El Capitan' by these artists:

Bryan Amadeus Un día en una rifa me saque un viaje en…
Caló (Pajarito cantando en la playa) Un dia en una rifa me…
Colony House I was born with a sickness The ache is in my…
Edad de Bronce Escucha hermano te tengo que contar ciertos días me tendría …
El Capitán Elefante EL CAPITÁN El Capitán Elefante nos hizo sincronizarnos. El C…
Gamits The I'm getting tired. I don't feel the same. I've got a…
Grupo Marca Registrada & Código FN Algunos le dicen "Capitán" Porque navegó en cualquier lugar …
Guardian A toda vela El navegó Y en el viento oyes Su canción Er…
Hayley Beth El Capitan has been so busy So much so he Don't even…

Idlewild By the harbour I harbour the strangest memories, Over land I…
Javier Rosas Y Su Artillería Pesada Como están señores les saluda el capitán, Soy ese buen amig…
Juan Luis Guerra Salí en mi botecito a navegar A recorrer las olas de…
Kinto Sol Capitan! Ah... Mi Capitan... Soy El Capitan, Soy El Capitan…
Los Titanes de Durango tropa verde camuflaje pixeliado escuadra o fucil tersiado co…
Natanael Cano Me siento desesperado Ya no sé cuánto ha pasado El cansancio…
OPM [Chorus: x2] Ooh la la la la la la la Ooh…
The Gamits I'm getting tired. I don't feel the same. I've got a…
Tony Pabon y La Protesta Oye!, Que buena está la fiesta, déjame entrar chico ¿Quién e…
Valira Se ha empeñado en soñar, a un ritmo lento, su…
Vinilo A DOS VEINTE VA CORRIENDO EL CAMIÓN NO LO VES, NO…
Vinni Tshawe Baqwa De vetta faen hva som kom i tryna din det…
ZAYDE WØLF This is not an analogy We ain′t got no guarantees I pulled…

We have lyrics for these tracks by John Philip Sousa:

Semper Fidelis * Instrumental *…
Stars and Stripes Forever Let martial note in triumph float And liberty extend its mi…
The Invincible Eagle Voices in the air I hear ′em loud and clear Telling me…
The Minnesota March RAH! RAH! SKI-U-MAH! RAH! RAH! RAH! March on, march on to …

The Stars and Stripes Forever Let martial note in triumph float And liberty extend its mig…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@tristania4548

5y↑3

Note that the description above is mistakenly for the "Bride Elect" another operetta march. The Marine Band website gives the description as follows:

"One of the perennial Sousa favorites, this march has enjoyed exceptional popularity with bands since it first appeared. It was extracted from the most successful of the Sousa operettas, El Capitan. El Capitan of the operetta was the comical and cowardly Don Medigua, the early seventeenth-century viceroy of Peru. Some of the themes appear in more than one act, and the closing theme of the march is the same rousing theme which ends the operetta.

This was the march played by the Sousa Band, augmented to over a hundred men and all at Sousa’s personal expense, as they led Admiral Dewey’s victory parade in New York on September 30, 1899. It was a matter of sentiment with Sousa, because the same march had been played by the band on Dewey’s warship Olympia as it sailed out of Mirs Bay on the way to attack Manila during the Spanish-American War. "

Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 43. Used by permission.

Written the same year as S&S Forever, it is an outstanding march and surely one of his top 5 most famous, and with its mix of 2/4 and 6/8 meter is has a great contrast of the best themes from the operetta.

All comments from YouTube:

@emilijaoverhere4224

5y↑41

Playing this song for band and it’s the best thing I have ever played I love Sousa’s work

@Misato898

what instrument do you play

@Ankoureaper

2y↑17

I'm in a marching band and this is one of the songs we're gonna be playing. From 1:11 to the end is what we play

@liamthemarchingbandguy4063

That’s where the piece only gets better from there

@riythemusicguy7696

42w

I play the tuba part to it and I love it

@RossiniSoprano

7y↑36

Love this one....more than Stars and Stripes! Really liked your soft dynamic on the second strain....beautiful!

@tristania4548

5y↑3

Yes, JPS's band played most of his marches with a "deorchestrated" second strain first time through - percussion,trumpets & low brass would cut out, the remaining voices would play at mp and an octave lower. In addition to the great contrast, the musicians were relieved to give their lips a 15 second rest!

I've always personally thought El Capitan sounded better with the second strain played identically both times, though, as there's enough dynamic contrast within it to hold our interest. But apparently this is how JPS's band played it.

@MindHydration

2y↑3

This was included in my late dads tribute concert... I conducted an orchestra of 30... in front of my family and 300 friends of his xx

@cpestrauss8740

7y↑85

Good to hear this music played properly, with attention paid to Sousa's scoring and dynamics.

@caseycarmelo547

3y↑1

pro trick : you can watch series at Flixzone. Been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

@ignaciobentley8747

3y↑1

@Casey Carmelo Yea, have been using Flixzone} for since december myself :)

@richardmiranda640

Everyone plays it properly to the best of their ability.

@bensexton7350

2y↑2

well it is the best band on the face of the earth.

@TheBlueThird

2y↑4

Sousa got more out of the five chord than any other composer!

@johnlundberg8894

Love this march!! Played it in my high school marching band.

@zuzannawisniewska4464

1y↑4

John Sousa is considered the king of marches. He is the most famous composer of American marches and one of the most famous marches in the world.He conducter the orchestra of the United States Marine Corps.Our American Pride.I'm proud to be American. The march"El Capitan" has become a standard work for brass bands as well as a gateway to other genres..from Chicago, Illinois.

@classicallpvault8251

20w↑1

The real king of marches is Herms Niel. The composer of 'Erika'.

@renatonunes2550

I go back many decades when I was a kid and lived in Portugal. In the 40's and 50's my father used to take me with him to the Soccer Games. In the intermission I recall the loudspeakers playing John Philip Sousa marches to the crowd in the stadium. Grew up loving Military Marches. Even today...on the 4th of July I play several of them.

@richardcleveland8549

5y↑3

Over several days at work, I listened to the US Marine Band's five volumes of Sousa marches, ad seriatim, and heard many outstanding works accurately and outstandingly played that I've never heard before - many of which are more than equal to the fifteen or twenty that get performed all the time. The Band has made it a project to record all 140 or so of these works, so I'm anxious to hear the volumes let to come. I have to say, though, that the UK has the US beat all to hell in the (at least former) quantity of fine military bands; there just doesn't seem to be the same tradition in the US military.

@geraldinekasper4346

a number of years ago Book of the Month Club put out the Complete Marches on Vinyl played by the Detroit Concert Band. I got them at an estate sale 10 dollars for ten albums. They are in excellent condition.

@cpestrauss8740

1y↑1

I quite agree. This music deserves proper respect and attention and gets it in this fine series of recordings. If you like this you might like to listen to Herbert von Karajan's excellent 1973 recording of German and Austrian marches. It's on here. Again, they just play what's written with the added attraction of what was at the time probably the best wind section in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's. Karajan isn't a bad conductor either!

@tristania4548

4y↑8

In 1896, Sousa published the El Capitan operetta, though all but forgotten nowadays, was apparently a smash hit in its day. However, the march extracted was a great success, and surely is in his top five or six works. He then published Stars and Stripes Forever at the end of the year, would be hard to think of a more successful year.

I'm a great proponent for having the second strain "de-orchestrated" first time around (typical Sousa style was cutting out upper woodwinds, brass and percussion, and remaining voices dropped an octave and played softer), to allow anticipation for second time round with all voices at fortissimo. However, I never thought it really works in El Cap, as the dynamics within the second strain are enough of a contrast and the crescendos just seem somewhat hollow, I'm curious to know which sources claim that this is the "authentic" way of performing is as were it up to me I'd keep all voices in both times for this one.

@andybreglia9431

Brings back memories of marching in parade formation with my M1 Garand at right shoulder arms in the Army.

@kitkitkatkatkit6057

There is an excerpt from here that is being used for the John Phillip Sousa band. Good luck to all of those auditioning this year!

@TackyFlamingo

My favorite song I’ve ever played in my band career ever. Reminds me of Disneyland

@xx_redwood_xx9737

2y↑13

This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mister James Fitzgerald.

@tristania4548

5y↑3

@edisonmirandilla7017

4y↑2

This is being played in the Philippines by the Philippine Army Band/ Philippine Marine Corps Band during Military Parades and Special Occassions....

@raulgutierrez5168

7y↑19

I have always like this music. Love the USA.

@skyyy7544

5y↑3

@Robert Binner Mattfeldt ok boomer

@cerealciller5369

Same!

@youngjunekim8848

6y↑2

I love this music most.

@CuberBeats

47w↑1

John Philip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day.

@ppputra

2y↑1

He is really Skrillex of his day.

@patrickendicott354

45w

This march, El Capitan, and Washington Post were the two matches that remember the when I played in the band of Memphis Central High School

@johnyujisong

USC ROTC Marching Band on tactical inspictions...still rings to me nowadays!

@prkr812

4y↑7

We’ve learned how to play this in band
I play percussion

@Misato898

rip

@NoirAngel921

1y↑2

The only Harvard graduate in the WWE, Christopher Nowinski!

@elvareyna8380

2y↑6

After hearing k1 this hits differently

@luck424

Same

@opotatoqopotato467

7y↑4

Playing this is symphonic band 👌🏻💩🎺

@skeetret

7y↑2

no it isn't ! ! !

@nathandavis2377

3y↑2

John Phillip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day!

@dl_supertroll

3y↑4

John Phillip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day

@CreatosStuff

2y↑13

POV: you got unentangled out of an advanced plague.

@lucaskennington9101

2y↑3

The Skrillex of his day.

@Skeleton_Rampage

4y↑7

That's why he was standing back so far that's why when he aimed he missed the car just lucky I was there or we'dve been left bereft of FDR

@nestorentera7575

20w

❤

@CosmoConstant

4y↑1

Not many Sousa marches change time signature

@mcchew7148

4y↑4

Who else is playing this for their school band in quarantine

@zachrichards2435

Yes.

@emeralddolphin1625

Nope

@prkr812

@Tamtamisan

We are about to right now-

@that1toad64

I'm here because of a certain man named James Fitzgerald.

@kaylataborn8758

Listening to this because the people in my section don’t know how to play it so I have to

@mattrivera7247

4y↑29

1:27 “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”

@coll912

1y↑1

Which is how I saved Roosevelt!

@CountTentacula

Okay Dennis, give me their licenses, IDs, toll tickets, report cards, notes from the teacher...

@beJarvis1981

I don't understand why this group uses only the cornet parts and not the trumpet parts...

@LyleFrancisDelp

4y↑2

Ben Jarvis The trumpets parts are not original. They were added later by house arrangers unknown. This is due to the evolving instrumentation of the band at the time. Once the instrumentation was standardized, publishers (Carl Fischer) had their staff arrangers add the extra parts such 2nd flute, 2nd alto sax, alto clarinet, and trumpets.

@AB-dm1wz

24w

It's lucky I was there! Or we'd have been left bereft of F
DR!

@czerbniak75

Nie to, żebym ja komuś coś narzucał, ale orkiestra reprezentacyjna nie musi cały czas rżnąć Warszawianki i Pierwszej Brygady, dla zdrowia psychicznego orkiestry i reszty żołnierzy jakaś odmiana. Nie wiem czy to jakieś plotki, ale słyszałem, że orkiestra w czasie wojny to kopie groby, byłbym wdzięczny, gdyby ktoś wyjaśniłby mi tą sprawę.

@profbosons

L'extase définitive du tubiste.

@camille-us8tx

2y↑1

part G is killing my tongue

@mitchellgeorge6031

2y↑1

Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it.

@that1toad64

2y↑6

POV: You're likely here from EATEOT.

@daniellecline3061

little notes 0:20

@chrisreagan3971

4y↑2

Channel 11 from Pittsburgh wrestling show intro music in the 60s and early 70s!

@Mikey300

Bill “Chilly Billy” Cardille!
Co-starring Izzy “The Blind Ref” Moidel - an inspiration to succeeding generations of NFL officials!

@georgeallen5885

Ayyye where the YHU honor band at??

@clayton4887

5y↑7

From Harvard, Massachusetts Christopher Nowinski.

@lindacreesy3909

1y↑1

it's the burger beer march bring you Cincinnati red baseball with white Hoyt

@WillowBark7073

3y↑2

Hell yeah 8th grade shit

@Fir_Fx

3y↑2

Yas me on my best friend's tv

@vicyoung411

I came to vote lol

@eudanielvieira

37w↑1

2:03

@mirelisflorian5497

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@tham3839

01:10

@Kettle_Whiskerz

0:54

@000Responses

*muricaintensifies

@angelbizarro6738

20w

Who here from granite

@daniellecline3061

3y↑2

0:07