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Definition of Sousa
1. Noun. A United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sousa
Literary usage of Sousa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1897)
"The programs were filled with the specialties for which Mr. Sousa is famous. ...
A round of Sousa marches was given in every program, and no listener ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Frei Luiz de Sousa, a famous stylist, worked up existing materials into the ...
Manoel de Faria y Sousa, historian and arch-commentator of Camoens, ..."
3. Little Visits With Great Americans by Orison Swett Marden (1904)
"As Sousa is preeminently a man of action, so his career and characteristics are
best outlined by incidents. One in connection with his operatic composition ..."
4. The Pacific Monthly by William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease, Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1899)
"Sousa, above all things, is humane, full of interest in life. You feel that he
is sure of himself.that he understands that the characteristics of a ..."
5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"Meanwhile, nobody was at the pains to inquire whether musical composition and
the ability to lead a great orchestra were all that Sousa could do; and Sousa. ..."
6. The Greeks and the Persians by George William Cox (1876)
"The whole strength of the empire Progress of was to be lavished on one supreme
effort, Xerxes from r * Sousa to and that empire extended now from the ..."
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