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A "drumline," also known as the "battery," or "batterie," is a section of percussion instruments usually played as part of a musical marching ensemble.A drumline can also be a section on their own competing against other drumlines.
The Eagan High School indoor percussion ensemble. An indoor percussion ensemble or indoor drumline is a type of marching ensemble consisting of battery and front ensemble instruments. [1] [2] It differs itself from a traditional percussion ensemble by not only on musical performance, but on theatrics and marching. [3]
The last year marching pitched percussion instruments were commonly used in competition was 1982. [3] The use of electronic instruments in marching band is controversial and divisive within the marching band community and was prohibited outright by Drum Corps International until 2008 when it was passed in an 11–4 vote. [4]
A modern drum and bugle corps is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, electronic instruments, and color guard. Typically operating as independent non-profit organizations , corps perform in competitions, parades, festivals, and other civic functions.
Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion. Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion ...
Instruments in this category are instruments in a configuration used only in marching musical ensembles; i.e. marching bands or drum and bugle corps. Pages in category "Marching band instruments" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block". Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band [1]) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition.
The contrabass bugle (usually shortened to contra or simply called the marching tuba) is the lowest-pitched brass instrument in the drum and bugle corps and marching band hornline. [1] It is the drum corps' counterpart to the marching band's sousaphone: the lowest-pitched member of the hornline, and a replacement for the concert tuba on the ...