On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Derek Hoy wrote:
Bob said:
When I was in high school, we lived at Fort Riley, Kansas, an infantry
post.
They played bugle calls several (15?) times a day. Of course they played
retreat to take down the flag, which was preceeded by firing the howitzer.
Every
This is from a note to a CD by the Household Division (they do the
Changing
of the Guard stuff I think):
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The beating or sounding of Retreat has its origins in the sixteenth
century
When I was in high school, we lived at Fort Riley, Kansas, an infantry post.
They played bugle calls
Stuart wrote:
The retreat march is not, as Stan suggests, necessarily a march time tune
which would be marched to - as often as not it was played as part of the
evening ritual in the military camp as day duties gave way to night ones.
It
was not linked to the military manoeuvre of
Jack Campin wrote:
I guess these are mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about
rattlers--which are sometimes noted as retreats? Morgan's Rattler
also seems to be kind of speedy, but maybe i'm playing it wrong.
Morgan Rattler is from the 1780s, well before the retreat march was
I guess these are mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about
rattlers--which are sometimes noted as retreats? Morgan's Rattler
also seems to be kind of speedy, but maybe i'm playing it wrong.
Morgan Rattler is from the 1780s, well before the retreat march was
invented. I had no idea it
I find your observations interesting, especially in that a march
usually listed as a retreat like Battle of the Somme seems to
want-- at least for me-- to move along a bit. I guess these are
mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about rattlers--which are
sometimes noted as retreats? Morgan's
Re Stuart Eydmann's recent e-mail on the subject:
I am very interested in the work you refer to which was done by Dr.
Peter Cooke... to explain the internal rhythmic variation in
traditional players which gives the music its particular lift, lit and
drive. Is it available?
Re the issue
Re Stuart Eydmann's recent e-mail on the subject:
I am very interested in the work you refer to which was done by Dr.
Peter Cooke... to explain the internal rhythmic variation in
traditional players which gives the music its particular lift, lit and
drive. Is it available?
Alexander, we
All this stuff about Tempi is sort of interesting. What is right, is not
for me as interesting as WHY certain tempi work. Human Physiology dosn't
vary that much (Dinner plates are the same size all over the world).
Understanding tempi is also about understanding its function.
Marches should be
