What is the march?

The march has evolved with a practical purpose: to allow large groups of soldiers to move in step and only later was used in an artistic environment to think of the army. Because the march was invented as an accompaniment and guide to the army movements, the genre contains strong, repeated rhythms and avoids excessive decoration. When it happened, stylized processes developed. Slow processes were used for ritual activities such as shows and reviews. A fast march, twice as fast as a slow march, more or less, was used for maneuvers and the double pedestrian was a pace of attack.

Soon marches of the 16th and 17th centuries included both original pieces and work with melodies modified from other music genres, including popular melodies and operas. By the end of the eighteenth century, the individual regiments and armies were introducing marches on their own private, and British soldiers marched, among other things, to Handel and Haydn, while Austrian troops would occasionally perform on Beethoven marches.

Many of the most famous marches were written today in the nineteenth century. "The Radetzky March" of Johann Strauss, s. It was written, for example, for the Austrian Revolution of 1848. The marches such as "Semper Fidelis", "The Liberty Bell", "King Cotton", "Stars and stripes forever" and "The Washington Post" were written in the 80's and 1890 for the United States.

Some famous marches are associated with a specific work. Kenneth J. Alford, a British composer, is known especially for his march "Colonel Bogey", which Alec Guinness whistled in the film bridge on the River Kwai . Felix Mendelssohn wrote a "wedding march" for night dream at night. Say . In symphonic music, funeral marches play a role in the third symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and the first symphony of Gustav Mahler, where Mahler createsRome a parodic movement based on the song "Frère Jacques."