<P> The name of the opera and a part of the chorus was secured from Major Wallach and forwarded to Mr. Smith, who replied: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Major Wallach is to be congratulated upon a wonderfully accurate musical memory, for the aria of the Marine Hymn is certainly to be found in the opera, Genevieve de Brabant...The melody is not in the exact form of the Marine Hymn, but is undoubtedly the aria from which it was taken . I am informed, however, by one of the members of the band, who has a Spanish wife, that the aria was one familiar to her childhood and it may, therefore, be a Spanish folk song . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Major Wallach is to be congratulated upon a wonderfully accurate musical memory, for the aria of the Marine Hymn is certainly to be found in the opera, Genevieve de Brabant...The melody is not in the exact form of the Marine Hymn, but is undoubtedly the aria from which it was taken . I am informed, however, by one of the members of the band, who has a Spanish wife, that the aria was one familiar to her childhood and it may, therefore, be a Spanish folk song . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> John Philip Sousa once wrote: </P>

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