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In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial period impressions using fifes, rope tension snare drums and rope tension bass drums are known as Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. [1] Many of these ensembles originated from a type of military field music.
By the early 1500s we know that one drum and fife was authorised for every company of a hundred infantrymen. From this came the drum and flute band that remain equipped from government funds and which until the early 1900s was to be found on the strength of every infantry battalion.
Sep 18, 2001 · This is represented in the so-called "ancient drum corps" indigenous to Connecticut’s Valley Shore, specifically the several towns that line the Connecticut River as far north as Middletown and East Hampton.
A corps of drums, sometimes known as a fife and drum corps or simply field music, is a traditional European military music formation. Historically, a Corps of Drums' primary role was communication. [1] Today, the primary role of a Corps of Drums is ceremonial, performing in parades and military ceremonies. [2]
History of the Corps of Drums. Over the years, many publications prescribing duty calls for various instruments or the available marches. They range from 1521, to India in 1942, to the great Prussian March catalogues or our Drummer’s Handbook of 1983. Documents of this early period, though, are rare and oldest known fife and drum manuscript ...
Jan 30, 2020 · Around a hundred years ago, competitive drum corps were born in the form of programs sponsored by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars ® (VFW). The first such corps, called the Senior Corps, was open to any age so that World War I veterans could participate.
By the close of the American Civil War (1861-1865), “field music”, as played by the fife and drum, had reached its high water mark and then began to recede in its military use. Today, these musical groups are often referred to as the “Ancient” corps, which alludes to those who continue to play the traditional six-hole wooden fifes and ...
