File:"Cosmopolitan America", by Helen May Butler (1904).opus

English: Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/scores/7749440?from=youtube_share

To mark 300 uploads and in the spirit of my series on women composers, here is a march from the "female Sousa". Wikipedia explains:

"Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American bandleader and composer who has been called "The female Sousa". Leading an all-women's band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a time when women were discouraged from such public activities. Her best-known group, Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band, was a favorite of President Theodore Roosevelt, and one of her compositions, "Cosmopolitan American March", was selected as the official march of the Republican Party during Roosevelt's 1904 election campaign."

The incumbent Teddy Roosevelt did win the 1904 election by a wide margin and went on to be a popular figure of the day.

"Cosmopolitan America" became a march standard, still being performed today. There are at least three YouTube videos available of it being performed recently, the best of which is this one by the United States Coast Guard Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBa63PjA2c

Published by the Tolbert R. Ingram Music Co. in Denver, Colorado in 1904. Original score source was from the University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection at this link: https://cudl.colorado.edu//luna/servlet/detail/UCBOULDERCB1~78~78~1101651~305677

This is the original score reproduced. Only change was measure 154 near the end which in the original is left blank, probably for a drum roll, but I've inserted a couple of E flat octaves to fill in the space.

Score #90 in my current ongoing series "Women Ragtime Composers". See the set link below for all 90 done to date. Plenty more to come.