notre dame victory march sheet music for baritone

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. The song wouldįirst be performed on Notre Dame's campus on Easter Sunday, 1909, in the The composition with his brother in the winter of 1908. Massachusetts, where Hammond was music director, soon after completing On the organ of the Second Congregational Church of Holyoke, Shea would first perform the song publicly The behest of his former music teacher, Professor William C. Shea, who earnedĭegrees from Notre Dame in 19, wrote the original lyrics.

In New York, wrote the music, and his brother, John F. Shea, a 1905 Notre Dame graduate and organist Copies of the lyrics and sheet music remain in the University Archives.' Victory March' is the fight song for the University of Notreĭame. Casasanta went on to compose the alma mater, “Notre Dame, Our Mother,” and several famous ND football songs including “Hike, Notre Dame.”Īs for the Shea brothers’ “better” fight song, it may be forgotten, but it hasn’t been lost. But that’s the last that was heard of “The Fighting Team.” Apparently no one adopted it.Īccording to the marching band’s website, the Sheas gave much of the credit for the success of the Victory March to Joseph Casasanta, band director from 1923 to 1942, who arranged the piece to sound the way we hear it today. The lyrics were printed in the homecoming issue of the Scholastic. Michael Shea later wrote that he was shipping about a thousand copies of the sheet music and lyrics to campus for sale to students and fans. Walsh wrote back promising that “The Fighting Team” would be played the weekend before homecoming. Onward to victory then, and show the world how ND menĬan Fight! Fight! Till we cross that goal line, In victory or defeat, our hearts are all for you. Here’s to you, Fighting Team, who wear the Gold and Blue. In the fall of 1922, Michael, who studied music in Rome after being ordained a priest and taught ecclesiastical chants at Saint Joseph’s Seminary in New York, wrote to then-President Matthew Walsh, CSC, discussing band and orchestra arrangements for their new composition, called “The Fighting Team.” The chorus went: Visitors can listen to an original rendition performed on an organ, as. Michael Shea, who wrote the song in 1908. Sheet music for the Notre Dame Victory March is displayed alongside portraits of John Shea and Rev. Despite the popularity of the “Victory March,” in later years the Sheas came to regard the song as an “amateurish” effort and set out to write a better one. The Band’s intriguing history includes its presence at the very first Notre Dame football game, played against Michigan in 1887. For reasons unknown, it would be another 10 years before the band played the song at an athletic event.īut history almost took another course. A week later John wrote the lyrics while Michael worked out the tune.Īccording to a history being prepared by the marching band, the “Victory March” was first performed publicly on campus on Easter Sunday 1909 as part of the band’s traditional Easter morning concert in the rotunda of the Main Building. Shea, class of 19M.A., of Holyoke, Massachusetts, near Springfield, when the young alumni returned to campus to see a football game in 1908. Inspiration for the fight song came to Michael J. Every Notre Dame fan knows and loves the “Notre Dame Victory March,” but if the brothers who wrote it had gotten their way, Irish supporters would literally be singing a different tune today.

Notre dame victory march sheet music for baritone