Questions tagged [march]
March, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.
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Strange cymbals notation in The Free Lance March
I'm currently playing cymbals for the arrangement of The Free Lance March by William D. Revelli with my high school band. However, I'm having trouble interpreting some of the notations in the music. ...
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March form and instrumentation [closed]
I'm currently composing a Sousa-style march for concert band. I've made it through the intro and the first strain, but I only have a vague idea of where to go from there. I've played bassoon on ...
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Why don't most high-tension marching snares have an inner hoop or any reinforcement on the snare side?
High-tension marching snares have an inner hoop where the batter head is placed to prevent its shells from collapsing—due to the high tension from Kevlar heads being tuned to higher pitches.
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Did American drum corps ever utilize the tuning slide of valveless bugles for more notes?
I used to be a member of my school's drum and bugle corps in middle school whose entire brass section is composed of US regulation bugles in G (if I'm not mistaken) which are are valveless. They used ...
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Tuba, 4th valve extension?
I use a three valve tuba, but have been playing around with 3d printing an 'extension' to replace the main tuning slide with another valve that could direct the air flow through a longer pipe, just ...
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Trouble keeping tempo while marching
I am doing marching band for the first time for a small parade in my town. I am having trouble keeping tempo while marching. I stand right behind the percussion and while they are playing cadence I ...
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Found in an 1800s newspaper--what kind of march notation is this?
Does anyone recognize this musical notation? It looks like a bunch of vertical bars. Is it supposed to be read by a machine? It was found in an issue of Scientific American from 1846. I'm guessing ...
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What kind of things should trombones do in marching bands in the following case?
I'm trying to write some simple stuff (kind of) for brass marching band and not entirely happy with how it sounds. (But this might be because of the MuseScore sounds.)
I have a trumpet playing the ...
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Can a Rondo also be a Theme and Variations?
I am composing a piece that I have nicknamed "The March of a Hero" and I noticed something. If I separate the piece out into sections, I get this:
Introduction - A few slow arpeggios to introduce the ...
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What is the “Trio” in a march?
During a band rehearsal the bandmaster may ask when playing a march: Let’s start from the trio!
a) What is meant by this term?
b) where does it come from?
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Why doesn't a marching band have strings?
In a regular orchestra the violin takes an important role. Why is it that in marching bands there are no strings usually? To give some context I'm working on a march composition and I like strings ...
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Are repeats, segnos, and coda markings "bad style" in marching band music?
Nearly all marching band music (not classic marches, mind) that I've seen in my five years of performing experience has been written without any kind of repeat signs. However, I've recently seen some ...
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Close transposition but want to avoid dissonance
So I had this idea to have a march in canon. So I would have a rhythmic cell like this:
to give a march-like feeling. I have decided on 6 rhythmic cells before a note change and going up 1 note and ...
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What makes a Turkish March a Turkish March?
I can only find 2 pieces called Turkish March. There is the 5th movement of The Ruins of Athens by Beethoven. Then there is the infamous Rondo Alla Turka by Mozart.
And when I search Turkish March ...
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How to compose a successful and popular a military march? [closed]
I came across this question What components make military music especially rousing? and thought I'd examine the question - what makes a military march successful?
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