*; Quaternary ammonium compounds: Also known as Quats or QAC's, include the chemicals benzalkonium chloride ( BAC ), cetyl trimethylammonium bromide ( CTMB ), cetylpyridinium chloride ( Cetrim, CPC ) and benzethonium chloride ( BZT ).

In 2010, the CTMB participated in Norfolk State University's Homecoming and won first place in the McDonald's Battle of the Bands.

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

* Drum cadence, a work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

* Drum Major Academy, an annual clinic for drum majors and marching band members

Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.

" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.

* Instruments " borrowed " from marching band percussion, such as the tuned bass drums used in the drumline.

* 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

There are a number of specialist units within the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince, which include a motorcycle section ( for rapid-response and motorcycle outriding ); a bodyguard and protection unit ; a diving unit with military, rescue, and scientific capabilities ; a military first-aid unit which provides first-aid and ambulance cover at public and sporting events ; and a military band, which includes state trumpeters, a brass ensemble, and a small orchestra, as well as being a marching band for ceremonial purposes.

Charles Ives often used two conductors, one for example to simulate a marching band coming through his piece.

A useful analogy in explaining the refraction of light would be to imagine a marching band as they march at an oblique angle from pavement ( a fast medium ) into mud ( a slower medium ).

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

The Redskins were the first team in the NFL with an official marching band and also the first team to have a fight song, " Hail to the Redskins "

Is a genre of marching ensemble descended from it military drummers and can be arranged as a performance of a drum, a group of drummers, and as a part of a larger marching band.

Texas Tech University Goin ' Band from Raiderland | Goin ' Band from Raiderland, a college marching band in the United States

A marching band is an ensemble of instrumental musicians that generally perform outdoors for the purpose of entertainment and sometimes in competition.

The marching band originated with travelling musicians who performed together at festivals and celebrations throughout the ancient world.

It evolved and became more structured within the armies of the early city-states, becoming the basis for the military band, from which the modern marching band emerged.

As musicians became less important in directing the movement of troops on the battlefield, the bands moved into increasingly ceremonial roles-an intermediate stage which provided some of the instrumentation and music for marching bands was the modern brass band, which also evolved out of the military tradition.

Many military traditions survive in modern marching band.

Probably in the vicinity of Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria ), the Bastarnae broke out of their marching columns and pillaged the land far and wide.

As his army approached Histria ( Sinoe ), Antonius detached his entire mounted force from the marching column and led it away on a lengthy excursion, leaving his infantry without cavalry cover, a tactic he had already used with disastrous results against the Dardani.

The German lands saw armies marching back and forth, bringing devastation ( albeit on a far lower scale than the Thirty Years ' War, almost two centuries before ), but also bringing new ideas of liberty and civil rights for the people.

In August 1209 King John decided to flex the English muscles by marching a large army to Norham ( near Berwick ), in order to exploit the flagging leadership of the ageing Scottish monarch.

It is held during the week leading up to Ash Wednesday, and typically includes masked balls, fancy dress and grotesque mask competitions, lavish late-night parties, a colourful, ticker-tape parade of allegorical floats presided over by King Carnival ( Maltese: ir-Re tal-Karnival ), marching bands and costumed revellers.

* moving marching timpani and keyboard percussion into a stationary sideline percussion section (" pit "), which has since incorporated many different types of percussion instruments such as: Tambourines, Crash Cymbals, Suspended Cymbals, Bass Drum and Gong Sets, Chimes, EWIs ( Electronic Woodwind Instrument ), and most Keyboards

* marching band competitions are judged using criteria similar to the criteria used in drum corps competitions, with emphasis on individual aspects of the band ( captions for music performance, visual performance, percussion, guard ( auxiliary ), and general effect are standard ).

), music warm-up ( generally consisting of breathing exercises, scales, technical exercises, chorales, and tuning ), basics ( simple marching in a block to practice proper technique ), and sectionals ( in which either staff or band members designated section leaders rehearse individual sections ).

* Precision ( march ), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada

According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching ( Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome ), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words " Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα ", En toutō níka, usually translated into Latin as " in hoc signo vinces ," both phrases have the literal meaning " In this sign, shall conquer ;" a more free translation would be " Through this sign shall conquer ".

Modern uses of the marimba include solo performances, woodwind and brass ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band ( front ensembles ), drum and bugle corps, and orchestral compositions.

In addition to the ceremony held in the City of Hamilton on Remembrance Day itself, marching to the Cenotaph ( a smaller replica of the one in London ), where wreaths are laid and orations made, a smaller military parade is also held in St. George's on the nearest Sunday to Remembrance Day.

Leaving Rephidim, the Israelites advanced into the Sinai Wilderness ( Exodus 19: 1-2 ; Numbers 33: 14-15 ), possibly marching through the two passes of the Wadi Solaf and the Wadi esh-Sheikh, which converge at the entrance to the er-Rahah plain ( which would then be identified with the " Sinai Wilderness "), which is two miles ( 3 km ) long and about half a mile broad.

While the tradition of soldiers playing music while marching into battle had ended soon after the American Civil War ( mid 19th century ), military bands continued to perform marches during related ceremonies and other events.

* Because the regimental march is considerably shorter than a military march ( due to its lack of a third trio repeat and breakstrain ), it is often played by marching bands in parades ( hence the name " review march ").

The teams compete in the following MHSAA sponsored sports: cross country ( men / women ), soccer ( men / women ), football, golf ( men ), volleyball, track and field ( men / women ), baseball, softball, tennis ( men / women ), competitive cheer, basketball ( men / women ), swimming ( men / women ), and marching band ( co-ed ).

Now the yard looked wet and bald, the trees bare under their buds, but in a while Miss Ada's flowers would bloom like a marching parade.

The Force was also given the honour of marching in the victory parade under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Austin ordered that 100 men remain at Goliad, under the command of Captain Philip Dimmitt, while the rest should join the Texian Army in marching on Cos's troops in Béxar.

) After marching through Belgium, Luxembourg and the Ardennes, the German Army advanced, in the latter half of August, into northern France where they met both the French army, under Joseph Joffre, and the initial six divisions of the British Expeditionary Force, under Sir John French.

When the marching Elves reached the Hithaeglir ( Misty Mountains ) some left the Great Journey under their leader Lenwë ( Dan or Denweg in Nandorin ).

On September 24, 1813, Crockett joined the Second Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen for an initial term of 60 days and served under Colonel John Coffee in the Creek War, marching south into present day Alabama and taking an active part in the fighting.

The Minute Men, marching under their flag depicting a rattlesnake and inscribed with the words " Liberty or Death " and " Don't Tread on Me ", took part in the Battle of Great Bridge, the first Revolutionary battle on Virginia soil.

The size of the invading Swedish army was peeled of as Charles left Leszczyński with some 24, 000 German and Polish troops, departing eastwards from Saxony in late 1707 with some 35, 000 men, adding a further 12, 500 under Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt marching from Livonia.

They have won numerous state and regional titles in marching band field show and indoor percussion show competitions dating back to the 1970s, first under the direction of Gilbert A. Madrigale and currently under the direction of William R. Kingsland.

In November 2011, the Marching Green Pride, under the direction of Shawn Murphy, placed 18th out of 244 4A marching bands in the state of Texas.

The French, who had been marching and fighting for over forty hours, under intense heat and with scarce ratios of water and food, were slowly following the retreating enemy.

The British had asked for the traditional Honors of War ( marching out with dignity, flags waving, muskets shouldered, and playing an enemy tune as a tribute to the victors ), but remembering that the British, on taking Charleston earlier in the war, had refused the Americans ( under Benjamin Lincoln ) the same privilege, Washington firmly denied their request.

Consequently, the British and Hessian troops marched with flags furled, muskets reversed in shame, while according to legend the British drummers and fifers played the tune " The World Turn'd Upside Down "-actually a popular British marching tune of the time, and in line with custom, but curiously appropriate under the circumstances.

Probably Delacroix's best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity ; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty.

When Scotland consolidated under Kenneth MacAlpine ( crowned at Scone in 844 ), Galloway did not form part of the kingdom ; but in return for the services rendered to him at this crisis Kenneth gave his daughter in marriage to the Galloway chief, Olaf the White, and also conferred upon the men of Galloway the privilege of marching in the van of the Scottish armies, a right exercised and recognized for several centuries.

Therefore, with only a half day of marching time remaining, any attempt to leave this sure water source to seek that objective the same day, all while under the constant attack of Saladin's army, would be foolhardy.

The third Persian campaign, under Xerxes I of Persia ten years later ( 480 BC ), followed the pattern of the first in marching the army via the Hellespont while the fleet paralleled them offshore.

Law thundered that " Do you plan to hurl the full majesty and power of the law, supported on the bayonets of the British Army, against a million Ulstermen marching under the Union Flag and singing ' God Save The King '?

There were risks in this, because the army was not only marching under severe enemy provocation, but the troops were suffering from heat and thirst.

Late on 10 November, after a day spent marching under intermittent fire from British gunboats and field guns, Wilkinson set up his headquarters in Cook's Tavern, with Boyd's troops bivouacked in the woods around.

The selection of marching bands is already well under way except for Rose Bowl participant bands which aren't selected until 4 weeks before the parade.

In 1846, Washington was a mustering point for Arkansas troops marching south to fight under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War.

In early summer 1919, the White movement had gained the initiative, and its forces under the command of Anton Denikin were marching on Moscow.