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Marching music - the world doesn't march the same
Each of us can imagine something about marching music. Music for marching. But what else is behind it and what does marching music look like in other countries? What is meant by marching music? A march as a musical genre is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm that was originally written expressly for marching to, and most often performed by, a military band. In terms of atmosphere, the marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa to the martial hymns of the late 19th century. Examples...