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March (music)
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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