fife and drum corps is a musical ensemble consisting of 2 fifes, a snare drum and a bass drum. In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing...
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Guard Fife and Drum Corps is one of four premier musical organizations of the United States Army. Members perform using musical instruments and wearing...
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is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer. The word fife comes from the German...
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A corps of drums, sometimes known as a fife and drum corps or simply field music, is a traditional European military music formation. Historically, a Corps...
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Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps is an Ancient Fife and Drum Corps based in North Haven, Connecticut, and is a member of the Connecticut Fifers and Drummers...
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his 2007 Secret Tour. In late 1975, disco studio group Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps recorded a version of the song where it peaked at number two...
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Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps was an American disco group in existence from 1975 to 1978. The assemblage of studio musicians (which, contrary to...
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drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps)...
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with one lead fife player and a troop of drummers. Unlike a drum corps, the drum troop is loosely structured. As such, a fife and drum band may have a...
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Flavors: California's new state mushroom, Good Food Award finalists, and more food and drink tidbits". The Mendocino Voice. Retrieved January 11, 2024. "California...
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The Mattatuck Drum Band is an American fife and drum corps organized in 1767 in Farmingbury, now Wolcott, Connecticut. According to its website, it is...
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The Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps (aka Excelsior Brigade of Fifes and Drums, Excelsior Brigade, or Western New York Field Music) was founded in...
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United States military bands (section Field music formations (corps of drums and drum and bugle corps))
the U.S. Marine Corps Band, the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and in the peaked hats...
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battalion during the early modern period varied from five to eight. Fife and drum corps, in particular those in high-ranking units such as foot guards had...
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a drum signal for the soldiers' curfew. Other uses for military drums have been recruiting and calling for a parley. The Ancient Fife and Drum Corps and...
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Irish-American fife and drum corps based in Norwood, MA. It was founded in 1953 after the dissolution of the Saint Catherine of Siena fife and drum corps in Norwood...
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Uniform of a drum major in the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Uniform of a sergeant in the Commander-in-Chief's Guard Uniform of a drum major in the West...
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Sanford A. Moeller (category Drum educators)
Ancient Fife and Drum Corps has the best-known collection of Moeller drums, which are still being played today. The Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps, of which...
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in some fashion from ancient drum and fife corps. With the advent of the radio, bugle signaling units became obsolete and surplus equipment was sold to...
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all-female fife and drum corps, Totoket Ancient Fife & Drum Corps, who holds their practice at Seaside Hall. A large quarry is still working and supplies...
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The Middlesex County 4-H Fife & Drum Corps is fife and drum corps, which was formed in 1972 as a 4-H club in Concord, Massachusetts, in anticipation of...
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Volunteers (MCV) is a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit fife and drum corps that plays music from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Founded in 1982 at the end...
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snappy and light manner, as in the Pipe band tradition of Scotland. A much heavier approach is used in American Drum corps playing. Ancient fife and drum corps...
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It is also used in common in civilian marching bands, fife and drum corps and drum and bugle corps. To stand at attention is also a means of saluting when...
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keeping with the heritage of certain music, such as Pipe and Drum Corps, Fife and Drum Corps, and historical military bands such as Field Music ensembles...
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Wabash is a 19th-century American folk tune, still popular with Fife and drum corps. The tune first appeared as a banjo jig in a compilation of tunes...
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United States Marine Band (redirect from United States Marine Corps Band)
"The White Cockade", traditional fife and drum march "Marines' Hymn" "Marines' Hymn", official hymn of the Marine Corps "Radetzky March" Johann Strauss...
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Tricorne (section Modern usage and legacy)
traditional dress of the Chelsea Pensioners (UK) and the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of the United States Army, and the distinctive hat of the Spanish Guardia...
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basis of the snare drum rudiments. The earliest instance of rudimental fife and drum is often cited as the Swiss military at the battle of Sempach in 1386...
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Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2016. "United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps". trumpetguild.org. International Trumpet Guild. Retrieved December...
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