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American march music. Sheet music cover for "The Stars and Stripes Forever March", written by John Philip Sousa. American march music is march music written and/or performed in the United States. Its origins are those of European composers borrowing from the military music of the Ottoman Empire in place there from the 16th century.
American march music is march music written and/or performed in the United States. Its origins are those of European composers borrowing from the military music of the Ottoman Empire in place there from the 16th century.
Of the over 120 marches Sousa wrote, the most recognizable one is “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” the national march of the United States of America. Here is a list of famous march composers.
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march, originally, musical form having an even metre (in 2/4 or 4/4) with strongly accented first beats to facilitate military marching; many later examples, while retaining the military connotation, were not intended for actual marching.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band.
Categories: American compositions and recordings. American patriotic songs. March music by country.
