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Alma College
Alma College is a private liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan.
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Alto clarinet
The alto clarinet is a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.
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American football
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Anchors Aweigh
"Anchors Aweigh" is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy and march song of the United States Navy.
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Ancient warfare
Ancient warfare is war as conducted from the beginnings of recorded history to the end of the ancient period.
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Ankle knee step
The ankle knee step is a type of high step used by marching bands.
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Arena rock
Arena rock (also known as album-oriented rock, anthem rock, corporate rock, dad rock, melodic rock, pomp rock, and stadium rock) is a style of rock music that originated in the mid-1970s.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.
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Bagad
A bagad is a Breton band, composed of bagpipes (Breton: binioù, French: cornemuse), bombards and drums (including snare, tenor and bass drums).
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Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Band camp
A band camp typically refers to a high school, college, or university marching band summer camp.
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Band of the Fighting Irish
The Band of the Fighting Irish is the marching band of the University of Notre Dame.
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Bands of America
Bands of America (BOA), a division of Music for All, is an organization that promotes and organizes marching band competitions for high school students.
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Baritone horn
The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.
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Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the largest members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.
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Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.
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Bass drum
A bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.
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Baton twirling
Baton twirling is a sport involving the manipulation of a metal rod and the performer's body to a coordinated routine.
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Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference (B1G), formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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Bill Moffit
William C. "Bill" Moffit (born May 12, 1925 in New Philadelphia, Ohio; died March 5, 2008 in Jacksonville, Florida) was an American musician, music arranger and marching band director, best known for his innovations in marching band show techniques and for hundreds of arrangements for marching bands.
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Bob Knight
Robert Montgomery Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes.
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Boston University
Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
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Carnyx
The carnyx was a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, used between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200.
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Catholic Youth Organization
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) is a Roman Catholic youth organization originating in Chicago.
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Centimetre
A centimetre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; symbol cm) or centimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of.
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Ceremonial mace
A ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high official in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority.
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Chair step
The chair step is a type of high step used by marching bands.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.
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Claves
Claves are a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about, thick dowels. Traditionally they are made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla. In modern times they are also made of fibreglass or plastics. When struck they produce a bright clicking noise. Claves are sometimes hollow and carved in the middle to amplify the sound.
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College
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.
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Color guard (flag spinning)
Color guards can be found in most American colleges, universities, high schools, and middle schools, and independent drum corps.
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Competition
Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.
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Concert band
A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass or bass guitar.
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.
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Corps of drums
A Corps of Drums is a musical unit of several national armies.
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Corps style band
A Corps style band is a type of marching band based on those of Drum Corps International.
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Cowbell (instrument)
The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music including salsa and infrequently in popular music.
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
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Dot book
A dot book (also dotbook or dot-book or drill book) is a small notebook utilized by marching bands (especially high school show bands and drum corps) in order to aid the learning of formations on a field.
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Drum and bugle corps (classic)
Classic drum and bugle corps are musical ensembles that descended from military bugle and drum units returning from World War I and succeeding wars.
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Drum and bugle corps (modern)
A modern drum and bugle corps, is a musical marching ensemble consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, synthesizers, and color guard.
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Drum brake
A drum brake is a brake that uses friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that press outward against a rotating cylinder-shaped part called a brake drum.
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Drum cadence
In music, a drum cadence or street beat is a work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band (see marching percussion).
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Drum Corps Associates
Drum Corps Associates (DCA) is the non-profit governing body for modern senior, or all-age, drum and bugle corps in North America.
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Drum Corps International
Category:WikiProject Drum Corps Drum Corps International (DCI), formed in 1972, is the non-profit governing body for junior drum and bugle corps in the U.S. and Canada.
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Drum major
A drum major or field commander is the leader of a marching band, drum and bugle corps, or pipe band, usually positioned at the head of the band or corps.
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Drumline
A drumline is a section of percussion instruments usually played as part of a musical marching ensemble.
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Drumline (film)
Drumline is a 2002 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Charles Stone III.
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E-flat clarinet
The E-flat (E) clarinet is a member of the clarinet family.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Electrophone
The electrophone category was added to the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system by Sachs in 1940, to describe instruments involving electricity.
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ESPN
ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).
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Euphonium
The euphonium is a large, conical-bore, baritone-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
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Evliya Çelebi
Mehmed Zilli (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatname ("Book of Travel").
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Fanfare band
A fanfare band, fanfare corps, fanfare battery, horn and drum corps, bugle band, drum and bugle corps, or trumpet and drum band (including the German fanfarenzug, fanfarenkorps and regimentsblaserkorps, the Dutch tamboerkorps, trompetterkorps, schutterij and jachthoornkorps, and the French batterie-fanfare and fanfare de cavalerie) is a military or civilian musical ensemble composed of percussion instruments, bugles, natural horns and natural trumpets (and sometimes even brass instruments).
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Fanfare orchestra
A Fanfare Orchestra (Dutch Fanfareorkest, French Harmonie-fanfare) is a type of brass band consisting of the entire saxhorn family, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, flugelhorns and alto- and F-horns, as well as percussion.
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Fife and drum corps
A Fife and Drum Corps is a musical ensemble that consists of flutes or fifes and drums.
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Fight song
In American and Canadian sports, a fight song is a song associated with a team.
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Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band (also known as the Noble Men of Kyle or just the Aggie Band) is the official marching band of Texas A&M University.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Fiji Times
The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji.
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File (formation)
A file is a military term for a number of troops drawn up in line ahead, i.e. one behind the other in a column.
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Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colors.
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Florida A&M University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.
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Flute
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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Follow-the-leader
In a marching band, follow-the-leader is a visual effect in which one band member follows the next.
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For Boston
"For Boston" is the traditional fight song of Boston College and Boston College High School.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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Front ensemble
In a marching band or drum corps, the front ensemble or pit is the stationary percussion ensemble.
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Güiro
The güiro is a Latin American percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
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Glide step
Glide step is a form of movement used by marching bands to minimize upper body movement, enabling musicians to play their instruments and march without air-stream interruptions.
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Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.
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Gong
A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.
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Halftime show
A halftime show is a performance given during the brief period between the first and second halves, or the second and third quarters, of a sporting event.
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Harch
"Harch" is the command issued by the Drum Major of a marching band, or by a Sergeant in charge of assembled troops, to move forwards upon the left foot.
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High school (North America)
High school is a term primarily used in the United States to describe the level of education students receive from approximately 14 to 18 years old, although there is some variation.
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Highty-Tighties
The Virginia Tech Regimental Band, also known as the Highty Tighties, VPI Cadet Band, or Band Company, is a military marching band and unit in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
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Honda Battle of the Bands
The Honda Battle of the Bands (sometimes abbreviated The Honda or HBOB) is an annual marching band exhibition in the United States which features performances by bands from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Illinois Loyalty
"Illinois Loyalty" is the main school song of the University of Illinois.
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Inch
The inch (abbreviation: in or &Prime) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to yard but usually understood as of a foot.
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Indiana State Fair
The Indiana State Fair is an annual fair held in Indianapolis, Indiana, usually in the month of August.
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Indiana State Fair Band Day
The Indiana State Fair Band Day is a marching band competition held at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis every August.
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Indiana State School Music Association
The Indiana State School Music Association, Inc.
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Indiana State University
Indiana State University (ISU) is a public university located in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.
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Istanbul
Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.
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Ivy League
The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States.
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John Philip Sousa Foundation
The John Philip Sousa Foundation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of band music internationally.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.
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Kilt
A kilt (fèileadh) is a knee-length non-bifurcated skirt-type garment, with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands.
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Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.
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List of marching bands
This is a list of marching bands.
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List of Super Bowl halftime shows
Halftime shows are a tradition during American football games at all levels of competition.
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Lutheran chorale
A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service.
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MACBDA
The Mid-American Competing Band Directors Association (MACBDA), founded in 1972, is one of the few remaining summer high school marching band competition circuits in America.
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Majorette (dancer)
A majorette is a baton twirler whose twirling performance is often accompanied by dance, movement, or gymnastics; they are primarily associated with marching bands during parades.
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Maraca
Maraca, sometimes called rumba shaker, shac-shac, and various other names, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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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.
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Marching
Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops.
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Marching 100
The Marching 100 is the official name of the marching band at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Marching arts
The marching arts are a collection of fine arts related activities that are closely associated with wind music.
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Marching Illini
The Marching Illini (MI) is the marching band of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Marching percussion
Marching percussion instruments are specially designed to be played while moving.
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Marimba
The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.
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Mellophone
The mellophone is a three-valved brass instrument pitched in the key of F or E. It has a conical bore, like that of the euphonium and flugelhorn.
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Metre
The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).
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Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University, commonly abbreviated as MTSU or MT, is a comprehensive coeducational public university in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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Military band
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.
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Music director
A music director, musical director, or director of music may be the director of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an Organist and Master of the Choristers (a title given to a Director of Music at a cathedral, particularly in England).
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Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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Musician
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).
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Nessun dorma
"" (English: "None shall sleep") is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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Norwich University
Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont.
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Oboe
Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.
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Orange Order
The Loyal Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal order based primarily in Northern Ireland.
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Ottoman military band
Ottoman military bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching bands in the world.
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Parade
A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons.
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Parades in Northern Ireland
Parades are an important part of the culture of Northern Ireland.
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Peaked cap
A peaked cap, forage cap, barracks cover or combination cap is a form of headgear worn by the armed forces of many nations, as well as many uniformed civilian organisations such as law enforcement agencies and fire departments.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Phaser (effect)
A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum.
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Phasing (disambiguation)
Phasing may refer to.
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Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
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Pipe band
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.
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Pith helmet
The pith helmet (Spanish: salacot) also known as the safari helmet, sun helmet, topee, sola topee or topi is a lightweight cloth-covered helmet made of pith material.
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Purdue All-American Marching Band
The Purdue "All-American" Marching Band (or AAMB) is the marching band of Purdue University and the main source of auxiliary entertainment for Purdue Boilermakers football games.
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.
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Railroad tie
A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America) or railway sleeper (Britain, Ireland, South Asia, Australasia, and Africa) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.
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Rank (formation)
A rank is a line of military personnel, drawn up in line abreast (i.e. standing side by side).
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Republic of Fiji Military Forces
The Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) is the military force of the Pacific island nation of Fiji.
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Reserve Officers' Training Corps
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) are a group of college and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.
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Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
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Sabre
The sabre (British English) or saber (American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
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Scramble band
A scramble band - also known as a scatter band - is a particular type of field-performing marching band with distinct characteristics that set it apart from other common forms of marching bands; most notably, scramble bands do not normally march.
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Secondary school
A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.
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Shako
A shako is a tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor, and sometimes tapered at the top.
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Snare drum
A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Soprano clarinet
The term soprano clarinet is used occasionally to refer to those instruments from the clarinet family that occupy a higher position, both in pitch and in popularity than subsequent additions to the family such as the basset horns and bass clarinets.
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Sousaphone
The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba.
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Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (commonly referred to as SMU) is a private research university in metropolitan Dallas, with its main campus spanning portions of the town of Highland Park and the cities of University Park and Dallas.
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Spats (footwear)
Spats, a shortening of spatterdashes, or spatter guards are a type of classic footwear accessory for outdoor wear, covering the instep and the ankle.
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Spirit of Houston
The Spirit of Houston is an umbrella term that represents the official spirit groups at the University of Houston.
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Spirit of Troy
The Spirit of Troy, also known as the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band (TMB) represents USC at various collegiate sports, broadcast, popular music recording, and national public appearance functions.
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.
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State school
State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".
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Tartan
Tartan (breacan) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours.
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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.
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Tenor drum
A tenor drum is a membranophone without a snare.
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Tenor horn
The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family, and is usually pitched in E. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and baritone horn, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.
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Tenor saxophone
The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States.
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The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps; sacred spring) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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The Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion (RBL), sometimes called The British Legion or The Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants.
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The Victors
"The Victors" is the fight song of the University of Michigan (UM) composed by UM student Louis Elbel in 1898.
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Timbales
Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.
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Time signature
The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Tournament of Bands
The Tournament of Bands (TOB) is one of the largest competitive band organizations in the United States and is one of several major circuits in the mid-Atlantic states (other circuits include Cavalcade of Bands and USBands).
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Troy University
Troy University is a comprehensive public university that is located in Troy, Alabama, United States.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
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Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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Ulster loyalism
Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.
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Uniform
A uniform is a type of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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University Interscholastic League
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) is an organization that creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, music, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the American state of Texas.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Houston
The University of Houston (UH) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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University of Minnesota Marching Band
The University of Minnesota Marching Band (also known as UMMB, Minnesota Marching Band, and The Pride of Minnesota) is the marching band of the University of Minnesota and the flagship university band for the state of Minnesota.
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University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.
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Upstate New York
Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.
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USBands
USBands (formally United States Scholastic Band Association or USSBA) was formed in the Fall of 1988 to provide high school band programs with a competitive circuit featuring top judges from across the continent and a venue for the US Scholastic Band Championship.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.
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Victory March (fight song)
"Victory March" is the fight song for the University of Notre Dame.
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Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets
The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) is the military component of the student body at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Western Band Association
The Western Band Association (WBA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes high school music education in California, Arizona and Nevada.
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Winter guard
Winter Guard is an indoor color guard sport derived from Military ceremonies or veterans organizations ceremonies.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.
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Wood block
A wood block (also spelled as a single word, woodblock) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Xylophone
The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Yard
The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_band
