| LC control no. | sh 85080979 |
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| Topical heading | Marches |
| Variant(s) | Military marches |
| See also | Music |
| Scope note | Here are entered collections of march music for various mediums of performance. Individual marches and collections of marches for a specific medium of performance are entered under the heading followed by the medium. |
| Found in | New Grove dict. of Am. mus. (a basic walking step and the generic term for a variety of music that could be used to accompany this step in parades and in dance ... quickstep, a march genre) Elgar, Edward. Pomp and circumstance, 1977: t.p. (military marches nos. 1-5, op. 39) Beethoven, Ludwig van. Two military marches, ©1986. Schwandt, Erich, and Andrew Lamb. "March;" accessed via Grove Music Online, July 9, 2020 (March: Music with strong repetitive rhythms and an uncomplicated style usually used to accompany orderly military movements and processions. Since the 16th century, functional march music has existed alongside stylized representations of the march, which were often incorporated for programmatic purposes into art music. The distinction between the functional and the stylized march is often blurred, however: in the 18th century, functional marches were frequently imported virtually unchanged into wind-band music, often forming integral movements of serenades or divertimentos. During the 19th century, the functional military march declined, and the stylized march became popular in its own right, reaching its height in the works of the later Romantic composers. After World War I, the idea of using an orchestral or choral march as a vehicle for paying homage to rulers and celebrating nations and ideals, which had prevailed since the time of Lully, fell into decline, and the march came to be seen principally as an art-music genre) |
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