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Michigan victory march c flute
Michigan victory march c flute









Each instrument provides a vital timbre that contributes to the unique sound of the Notre Dame Band. The saxophone section includes alto and tenor saxophones only. The mallets include both marching xylophones and bells. The instrumentation of the drumline is further broken down into snare drums, bass drums, tenor drums, cymbals, and mallets. With over 400 members, the band features nine main sections: trombones, drumline, piccolos, clarinets, saxophones, faltos (mellophones, or f-alto horns), baritones, basses, and trumpets. Next, approximately half-an-hour before kick-off, the band steps off from in front of the Main Building for their traditional march to the stadium, led by the Cheerleaders and Irish Guard, the band parades down the streets, lined by fans clapping and cheering the Irish onwards to victory.Īfter performing for pre-game festivities, its halftime show, and the post-game show, the band makes a triumphant march back to the band building after the game, and awaits preparations for the upcoming game day and the next opportunity to support its Fighting Irish football team.Ĭomposition Instrumentation During this performance, the band performs traditional tunes as well as the halftime field show music in stand-still performance, galvanizing the large crowds surrounding the building. The day continues with the traditional "Trumpets under the Dome" performance in the Main Building, and the "Concert on the Steps" at Bond Hall, the former Architecture Building, follows. Once arriving at the Loftus Indoor Sports Facility, the band practices their field show once more and thereafter convenes for lunch, often performing various songs for special banquets held in the South Dining Hall at this time. Saturday morning commences with an early morning march about campus as a traditional way to "wake-up" students across campus in preparation for game day festivities.

michigan victory march c flute

At midnight, students and fans gather in front of the main building for the energizing "Drummers' Circle" performed by the drum line to prepare the student body for the following day's events. Joyce Center to perform for the pep rally, energizing students and fans alike. Following practice, the band heads to the Edmund P. A typical home game schedule commences on Friday afternoon when the band marches out from the Main Building to the Ricci Family Fields for a final run-through of their field show, to the delight of onlookers. The Band of the fighting Irish performs at all home football games and pep rallies. Although the lush orchestral arrangement popularized by Leopold Stokowski from 1949 remains popular, the distinctively idiomatic scor­ing techniques of the wind-band arrangement seems to con­vey Grainger's genius more vividly.The Notre Dame Marching band performs at the end of a football game

michigan victory march c flute

MICHIGAN VICTORY MARCH C FLUTE FULL

The work exists in no fewer than seven substantively different versions for combinations ranging from chorus with optional piano through full orchestra, wind band (the version presented here) and harmonium with accompa­nying instrumental and/or vocal ensemble. Grainger evidently was fully aware of the potential of the stunningly beautiful music presented here. In the wind arrangement presented here the work was first pub­lished in 1918-a period of competing cultural pride and mourning throughout the British Commonwealth, in the wake of the staggering losses and ultimate victory in Word War I-as No. Irish Tune from County Derry is one of Grainger's most popu­lar works, familiar not only to classical music audiences but also to movie-goers and television viewers the world over.









Michigan victory march c flute