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  2. Follow the Colours - Wikipedia

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    Thousands, thousands of marching feet, All through the land, all through the land; Gunners and Sappers, Horse and Foot, A mighty band, a mighty band. Refrain, after each verse: Follow the Colours, follow on, Where’er they go, where’er they go; Loyal the hearts that guard them well, ’Twas ever so, ’twas ever so. March, march, march !

  3. Marching band - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The British Grenadiers - Wikipedia

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    The following text may date back to the War of Spanish Succession (1702–1713), since it refers to the grenadiers throwing grenades and the men wearing "caps and pouches" (i.e. the tall grenadier caps, [10] worn by these elite troops, and the heavy satchel [11] in which grenades were carried) and "loupèd clothes" – coats with broad bands of 'lace' across the chest that distinguished early ...

  5. March (music) - Wikipedia

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    The Band of the Welsh Guards of the British Army play as Grenadier guardsmen march from Buckingham Palace to Wellington Barracks after the changing of the Guard.. A 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.

  6. American march music - Wikipedia

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    Most march composers were from the United States or Europe. Publishing new march music was most popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; sponsors of the genre began to diminish after that time. Following is a list of march music composers whose marches are still performed in the United States. Russell Alexander (1877–1915)

  7. List of national anthems - Wikipedia

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    Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...

  8. Alte Kameraden - Wikipedia

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    [2] This episode eventually led to Teike taking his leave of the band and naming the march as "Alte Kameraden". A publisher purchased the song from him for 25 German Goldmark. [3] In 1895, the Nowaweser Kapelle Fritz Köhler premiered the march. [3] Alte Kameraden later became one of the most popular marches in the world. [3]

  9. Glockenspiel - Wikipedia

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    This form of glockenspiel is also popular in Colombian marching band music. [13] Many marching bands stopped using bell lyres with the introduction of the front ensemble. One of the few college marching bands with a glockenspiel section is UC Berkeley's University of California Marching Band, where they are affectionately referred to as "glocks ...