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In 1978, Minister of Defence Yvon Bourges ordered that the band be enlarged so it could be the largest of the five musical formations in the army. In 1997, it was officially designated as the army's senior band. In 2016, as part of special reforms within the Army Music Command, the band was put back under the Marine chain of command. [3] [4] [5 ...
The Army Music Command. The Army Music Command (French: Commandement des Musiques de l’Armée de Terre, COMMAT)) is an organization under the direct authority of the Chief of Staff of the French Army. It is composed of a staff stationed in Versailles and 6 army bands throughout France in the following cities: Lille, Lyon, Metz, Toulouse ...
The band during a Bastille Day rehearsal ceremony. The Musique de l’Artillerie (English: Artillery Band) sometimes referred to informally as the Music of 9-9 or M-ART is a military band of French Army falls under the Sud-Est territorial region. It consists of 50 musicians, who perform at official protocol ceremonies as well as public ...
The Symphonie militaire (later renamed Symphonie funèbre et triomphale), rather than following the model Berlioz had established in Romeo and Juliet, represents a reversion to an earlier pre-Beethovenian style in the tradition of monumental French public ceremonial music. [1]
History [ edit ] Struck by the impact that the Last Post , of the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations, and Taps , of the United States , had on ceremonies and their participants, General Gouraud took the initiative to call by the head of the music of the Republican Guard, Major Pierre Dupont, and requested a composition of an appropriate bugle call.
The mounted fanfare band section of the French Republican Guard Band in dismounted formation during a concert.. A fanfare band, fanfare corps, fanfare battery, fanfare team, horn and drum corps, bugle band, drum and bugle corps, or trumpet and drum band (including the German Fanfarenzug, Fanfarenkorps and Regimentsbläserkorps, the Dutch drumband, tamboerkorps, trompetterkorps ...
The Music of the Foreign Legion (MLE) is requested and demanded in France as well as overseas in international military music festivals. [2] The music is produced frequently in various civilian lieu and environments as well. [2] Within this title, the music can be considered as the Ambassador of the Foreign Legion and the entire French Armed ...
Martial music or military music is a specific genre of music intended for use in military settings performed by professional soldiers called field musicians. Much of the military music has been composed to announce military events as with bugle calls and fanfares , or accompany marching formations with drum cadences , or mark special occasions ...