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Scroll below for a video of the score as performed in Finale.Programming this arrangement would be an ideal way to feature the trombone or low brass section of your high school band. It is a setting of Sousa's famous march for a trombone or low brass ensemble in 6 parts. The parts could be doubled as needed between trombones, baritones, and tubas. Playing in the keys of Db and Gb major in cut-time can be demanding, but the arrangement is very playable and provides young musicians an excellent, collaborative learning opportunity as they learn the constructs of an important genre of American music.The High School Cadets was written approximately twenty years before the American school band movement had begun. Sousa composed the march at the request of the marching cadet corps of the one and only Washington, D.C, high school in 1890 (later called Central High School). The piece is dedicated to the teachers and students of that school. The High School Cadets has always been one of Sousa's most popular marches. You will enjoy it, too.