Related Venus Music
Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" is only one of the Library of Congress’ holdings in the Music Division pertaining to the transit of Venus of 1882. Other musical compositions, published around the same time and probably related to the same event, include "The Transit Galop," by Ed. J. Case, published in 1881; "Venus Galop," by William G. Dietrich, published in 1883; "Venus Polka Quadrille," by Carl Heinemann, published in 1883; and "Venus Waltz," an arrangement by Thomas J. Armstrong, published in 1884. An even earlier transit of Venus, that of June 6, 1769, is memorialized by an anonymous composer in a song published in 1774 London, and today preserved in the British Public Library: "Come Ye Lads and Lasses with Speed: The Transit of Venus."
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