![]() ![]() ![]() Then there were drill and battle commands, primarily for drums but many had optional fife parts as well. There were short ditties like Musician's Call and NCO's Call-I suspect these were composed for the purpose and were not clips from other songs, but I don't know. ![]() "Roast Beef" called the troops to dinner, "The General" was used to strike the camp. Many marching tunes were just popular songs of the day, and vice versa, and most had lyrics (as well as dirty parodies!).Ĭertain tunes were used as communication. Gotta say that marching to fifes and drums is GLORIOUS. As far as I know, strictly military applications used only fifes and drums (meaning America, England, Germany, France), but regiments may have had bands with more instruments, and certainly troops relaxing had penny whistles and the like. Oh, there was LOTS of music made for general marching and entertainment. ![]()
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