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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 ...
The composition is mainly played by military bands and brass bands, and less-frequently by orchestras too, at gala concerts.When the Queen opened the new £35m UK Berlin embassy on 18 July 2000, [4] the band of the Royal Tank Regiment played the music, which was viewed as a faux-pas.
In musical genre, battle music may refer to: Battle music (video game music), a type of video game music; Battle music (heavy metal music), a type of heavy metal music;
A battaglia is a form of Renaissance and Baroque programme music imitating a battle. The Renaissance form is typically in the form of a madrigal for four or more voices where cannons, fanfares, cries, drum rolls, and other noises of a battle are imitated by voices. The Baroque form is more often an instrumental depiction of a battle. [1]
The "War Trilogy" on Midsummer consists of three songs. The first, a love ballad, anticipates the battle; the second portrays the battle; the third looks back on the battle and its results. "Tomorrow I Leave For Battle," lyrics: Philip R. Obermarck, music: Heather Alexander "March of Cambreadth," lyrics & music: Heather Alexander
The music derived from this war was of greater quantity and variety than from any other war involving America. [38] Songs came from a variety of sources. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" borrowed its tune from a song sung at Methodist revivals. "Dixie" was a minstrel song that Daniel Emmett adapted from two Ohio black singers named Snowden. [39]
Gunka (軍歌, lit. ' military song ') is the Japanese term for military music. While in standard use in Japan it applies both to Japanese songs and foreign songs such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", as an English language category it refers to songs produced by the Empire of Japan in between roughly 1877 and 1943.
Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 film Gladiator. The soundtrack was composed and produced by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, and was released on April 25, 2000. It was conducted by Gavin Greenaway and performed by the Lyndhurst Orchestra. The album won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original ...