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The OU marching band plays the fight song when the team takes the field and when the team scores a touchdown, makes a big play, or makes a play in general. They also play it along with other fight songs while the Oklahoma defense is on the field to encourage the crowd to get loud.
"You're a Grand Old Flag" would go on to become one of the most popular U.S. marching-band pieces of all time. The original lyric for this perennial George M. Cohan favorite came, as Cohan later explained, from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan ...
His "Patterns in Motion", based on a constant-motion system using four-player squads, revolutionized bands and their halftime shows, moving away from the military style of marching. His style dominated both college and high school marching band shows and competitions from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, when drum corps began to become ...
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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.
The song's use of humor instead of sentimentality also made it distinctive to audiences. [3] The lyrics are in line with the musical trend of ethnic humor in early World War I war songs, as Jimmy's unaware mother is made distinctly Irish by her mention to St Patrick's Day and the stereotype of heavy drinking during celebration. [4]
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The U of M Marching Band Centennial Book, Minnesota Hats Off to Thee, published in 1992, described the origins of "The Minnesota March": "The need for a more adequate marching song had long been felt at Minnesota, yet nothing was really done about it until University band director Michael Jalma conceived the idea that John Philip Sousa might be persuaded to provide the music.