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  2. 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.

  3. 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)

  4. Military band - Wikipedia

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    The music band of the Army Command was created on 16 June 1994. [10] 4 years later, on 15 August 1998, the National Air Force created a music band within the artistic brigade. [11] Outside the navy's marching band, the navy also has a small musical group known as Banda 10 de Julho (10 July Band), based at the Luanda Naval Base. [12]

  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. A. R. Casavant - Wikipedia

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    Casavant published more than 40 books on Precision Drill, exhibition marching and percussion cadences. He was awarded six patents on inventions for marching band equipment, marketed through his company ARC Products. [2] He changed the theory and practice of the marching band in America beginning in the 1950's, and his influence continues today. [3]

  7. Music of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    By the 1890s a man by the name of Poree hired a band led by cornetist Buddy Bolden, many of whose contemporaries as well as many jazz historians consider to be the first prominent jazz musician. The music was not called jazz at this time, consisting of marching band music with brass instruments and dancing. Many claim Bolden was the first ...

  8. Seventy-Six Trombones - Wikipedia

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    In the musical, it is the primary sales pitch for a boys' band, sung by "Professor" Harold Hill. [3] Hill uses the song to help the townspeople of River City, Iowa, visualize their children playing in a marching band by claiming to recall a time when he saw several famous bandleaders' bands in a combined performance.

  9. List of marching bands - Wikipedia

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    The Band of the Fighting Irish at the University of Notre Dame performs at the end of a football game. This is a list of marching bands. Major types include collegiate and military. At least 16 U.S. colleges have had scramble bands, which are also included in this list.