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Marches associated with the United States Armed Forces, or specific units or branches thereof. Pages in category "American military marches" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
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.
The Army Goes Rolling Along. " The Army Goes Rolling Along " is the official song of the United States Army [ 1] and is typically called " The Army Song ". It is adapted from an earlier work from 1908 entitled "The Caissons Go Rolling Along", which was in turn incorporated into John Philip Sousa 's "U.S. Field Artillery March" in 1917.
The Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra was the only symphonic orchestral ensemble to operate in the United States Army, operating from 1952 to 1962. The U.S. Army All-American Marching Band was an army-sponsored civilian marching band that recruited from high school senior musicians from 2007 to 2019.
United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson (South Carolina) in 2008. In the United States armed services, a military cadence or cadence call is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. In the United States, these cadences are sometimes called ...
Ceremonial usage. The goose step is a difficult marching style that takes much practice and choreography in order to coordinate the timing of each person's step with one-another. It is therefore reserved for ceremonial occasions such as military parades.
The oldest extant United States military band is the United States Marine Corps Band, formed in 1798 and known by the moniker "The President's Own". The U.S. armed forces field eleven ensembles and more than 100 smaller, active-duty and reserve bands.
Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady walking forward in either rhythmic or route-step time; and, typically, it refers to overland movements on foot of military troops and units under field orders. [ 1] Marching is often performed to march music and is typically associated with military and civilian ceremonial parades.