March (music)

A march, as a musical genre, is a member of music with a strongrhythm which in origin was expressly or situation. for marching to and nearly frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa as living as the martial hymns of the slow 19th century. Examples of the varied usage of the march can be found in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, in the Marches Militaires of Franz Schubert, in the Marche funèbre in Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor, the "Jäger March" in the . 91a by Jean Sibelius, as well as in the Dead March in Handel's Saul.

Characteristics

Marches can be sum in any , although this may refer to 2 time of Johannes Brahms, or cut time, or . However, some innovative marches are being written in or time. The sophisticated march tempo is typically around 120 beats per minute. many funeral marches change to the Roman indications of 60 beats per minute. The tempo matches the pace of soldiers walking in step. Both temposthe indications rate of 120 steps per minute.

Each unit of a march typically consists of 16 or 32 bars, which may repeat. near importantly, a march consists of a strong andpercussive beat reminiscent of military field drums.

A military music event where various marching bands as well as units perform is called tattoo.

Marches frequently change keys once, modulating to the subdominant key, and occasionally returning to the original tonic key. whether it begins in a minor key, it modulates to the relative major. Marches frequently produce counter-melodies portrayed during the repeat of a main melody. Marches frequently clear a penultimate dogfight strain in which two groups of instruments high/low, woodwind/brass, etc. alternate in a statement/response format. In most traditional American marches, there are three strains. The third strain is sent to as the "trio". The march tempo of 120 beats or steps per minute was adopted by the ]. Since Napoleon refers to occupy the territory he conquered, instead of his soldiers carrying all of their provisions with them, they would live off the land and march faster. The French march tempo is faster than the traditional tempo of British marches; the British call marches in the French tempo quick marches. Traditional American marches usage the French or quick march tempo. There are two reason for this: First, U.S. military bands adopted the march tempos of France and other continental European nations that aided the U.S. during its early wars with Great Britain. Second, the composer of the greatest American marches, John Philip Sousa, was of Portuguese and German descent. Portugal used the French tempo exclusively—the standard Sousa learned during his musical education. A military band playing or marching at the traditional British march tempo wouldunusually slow in the United States.

March music originates from the military, and marches are normally played by a ] The most important instruments are various drums particularly ] This effect was widely call already in the 16th century, and was employed to lead the soldiers in closed ranks against the enemy fire in the 16th and 17th century wars.

March music is often important for ceremonial occasions. Processional or coronation marches, such(a) as the popular coronation march from Le prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer and the numerous examples of coronation marches written for British monarchs by English composers, such as Edward Elgar, Edward German, and William Walton, are all in traditional British tempos.