Marines' Hymn (From the Halls of Montezuma) (arr. Joel Jacklich (ASCAP)) by Jacques Offenbach Sheet Music for Orchestra at Sheet Music Direct
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Marines' Hymn (From the Halls of Montezuma) (arr. Joel Jacklich (ASCAP)) Digital Sheet Music
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Marines' Hymn (From the Halls of Montezuma) (arr. Joel Jacklich (ASCAP))by Jacques Offenbach String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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This arrangement os playable by string orchestra or string quartet. Following the war with the Barbary Pirates in 1805, when Lieutenant P.N. O'Bannon and his small force of Marines participated in the capture of Derne and hoisted the American flag for the first time over a fortress of the Old World, the Colors of the Corps was inscribed with the words: "To the Shores of Tripoli." After the Marines had participated in the capture and occupation of Mexico City and the Castle of Chapultepec, otherwise known as the "Halls of Montezuma," the words on the Colors were changed to read: "From the Shores of Tripoli to the Halls of Montezuma." Following the close of the Mexican War came the first verse of the Marines' Hymn, written, according to tradition, by a Marine on duty in Mexico. For the sake of euphony, the unknown author transposed the phrases in the motto on the Colors so that the first two lines of the Hymn would read: "From the Halls of Montezuma, To the Shores of Tripoli." In 1919, John Philip Sousa wrote: "The melody of the 'Halls of Montezuma' is taken from Offenbach's comic opera, 'Genevieve de Brabant' and is sung by two gendarmes."

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