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The Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry is a British Army band which ceremonially serves the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (HCMR). The HCMR Band is the largest symphonic wind band in the British Army. It is one of the bands of the Royal Corps of Army Music (RCAM) and is currently based at Hyde Park Barracks and Combermere Barracks. [1]
Today, the sole 64-strong Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry, created in 2014 with the merger of the by now two surviving bands and thus is the largest of all the bands in the regular Army proper, maintains the long heritage and traditions of the mounted band in the United Kingdom, with the band sporting two drumhorses and mounted fanfare ...
The 5 regiments of the Foot Guards have their own regimental marches, that are each performed by their respective regimental bands. The following is a list of the notable Regimental Marches for military regiments of the British Army. In addition, all regiments have additional pieces for slow marches, marches for mounted parades and pipe marches.
Army Air Corps – Recce Flight (Quick); Thievish Magpie (based on La gazza ladra) (Slow) Special Reconnaissance Regiment - Argus; Royal Army Chaplains' Department – Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary) Royal Logistic Corps – On Parade (Quick); Lion, Sword and Crown (Slow) Royal Army Medical Service – Here's a Health unto His Majesty
The massed bands during the Beating Retreat in 2008. The Beating Retreat is a massive gathering of the band's of the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade.It is based on a 16th-century military ceremony in England that was first used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
In 2019, the Corps of Army Music was restructured with a number of bands being co-located and re-named. [5] In a process of 'Military Music Optimization', the regular Army band laydown was adjusted to enable several smaller bands to train and perform as larger bands for more significant Army events: 'Co-locating 11 of the smaller bands in three major garrisons and Sandhurst has increased the ...
The British royal family, including Princess Kate Middleton, is gearing up for one of their biggest events of the year. The annual Trooping the Colour ceremony commemorates the monarch’s ...
The march The British Grenadiers was introduced to British audiences in the late 17th century. [ 3 ] George II gave Handel the task of scoring the Music for the Royal Fireworks , most commonly performed with strings, for the king's own musicians, who were wind players from his foot guards.