MARCH

March

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. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa and the martial hymns of the late 19th century. Examples of the varied use of the march can be found in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, in the Marches Militaires of Franz Schubert, in the Marche funèbre in Chopin's Sonata in B flat minor, and in the Dead March in Handel's Saul.

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march

Noun

  1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  2. A political rally or parade
  3. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see )
  4. Steady forward movement or progression.
    The march of time.
  5. Smallage.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
  2. A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  3. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages

Verb

  1. To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  2. To go to war; to make military advances.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To have common borders or frontiers


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