Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who often incorporate movement - usually some type of marching - with their musical performance.
Wikipedia
A marching band is a group in which instrumental musicians perform for entertainment, and prepare for a competition. Instrumentation typically includes Brass instrument, Woodwind instrument, percussion instruments, and Color guard. Most marching bands wear some kind of uniform (often of a military style) that includes the school or organization's colors, name or symbol. Most high school marching bands are accompanied by a colorguard, a group of performers, who add a visual interpretation to the music through the use of props, most often flags and rifles.
Marching bands are generally categorized by function, size, age, gender, instruments and by the style of show they perform. In addition to traditional parade performances, many marching bands also perform field shows at special events like competitions. Increasingly, marching bands perform indoor concerts that implement many songs, traditions, and flair from outside performances.
Marching Band is a musical duo consisting of Erik Sunbring and Jacob Lind from Linköping, Sweden. Marching Band combines eccentric musical elements with mainstay rock sounds, creating a sonic fusion that finds instrumentation of marimba, banjo and vibraphone meshing with guitars, bass, drums and lush vocal harmonies. The duo’s distinct sound and style can be heard on their first full-length studio album, Spark Large, which was released by U & L Records on August 5, 2008.
"Marching Band" is the 16th single of Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation for their first best-of album Best Hit AKG. The single was released on November 30, 2011. The song "N2" is also featured on the album Landmark.
A marching band is a sport consisting of instrumental musicians performing outdoors.
It may also refer to:
- Marching Band (song), song by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation
- Marching Band (band), Swedish band
"Marching Band" is a song by American R&B singer R. Kelly, was released on November 12, 2015 as a promotional single of his thirteenth studio album The Buffet, it features American rapper Juicy J. Rapper Wale was supposed to feature in the song, but got later dropped by Dr. Luke. The song was written and produced by Kelly, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, A.C. and JMIKE with additional writing from Juicy J, Ryan Ogren and Lunchmoney Lewis
Usage examples of "marching band".
Curry, who thought he knew so much and wouldn't let Smoke play in the marching band because Smoke was tone deaf and couldn't keep rhythm on the snare drum.
He wished he could paint the way he felt and the way the morning looked as Officer Brazil drove him to George Wythe High School, where the Godwin marching band was waiting and warming up.
Perhaps, like the people of the marching Band, they created an aura which shut such shadows out.
Her open car rolled along in front of a marching band that blared out martial music.
Around them the crowd was being marshalled to form up into a procession behind a band, a fifteen-piece marching band, any gathering was an excuse for the Cape-coloured people to make music, and in ranks four and five abreast the demonstration began to snake out of the square.
Only an Orange marching band could make the flute sound martial to the ears.
The priests and their marching band made their joyful noise, circling the city walls all day long, fresh men coming up to replace tired ones as the day wore on.
Bill winced back but held onto the book all the same, thinking it would drop out of sight as the parade had done, and the marching band, and the Boy Scouts, and the Cadillac convertible carrying Miss Derry of 1945.
The World War I soldiers first, their faces strangely old under their pie-plate helmets, with their sign which read THE DERRY VFW WELCOMES HOME OUR BRAVE BOYS, then the Boy Scouts, the Kiwanians, the Home Nursing Corps, the Derry Christian Marching Band, then the Derry World War II vets themselves, with the high-school band behind them.
A marching band in green-and-gold costumes that bore the Coronal's starburst emblem came strutting across the bridge and down the esplanade.
Her head didn't feel like the practice field for a marching band now.
He averted his eyes and dipped into the mind of the nearest:mincing pansy looka that hair dye job fershure thinks he's inna marching band like to beat his fuckin' drums but no wait shit there's better we'U find us a good one tonight yeah wanna get one that squishes when we hit it.
At 8:55, the last marching band clanged into view playing something by Neil Diamond.