I am putting in one or two old German marches, that immediately strike the ear with their peculiarity. I wonder if any other member notices this oddity.
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Thanks.
60 BPM!I get it now
I'm glad you raised this.Yorkischer march (NVA )
@Joe Shearer I have argued time and time again that BD should have adopted the Prussian Drill style (goosestep) instead of the british style which looks cringe
Why adopt customs of your former colonial overlords ? Especially For a country like BD , All colonial remnants need to phased out, especially the mindset.
A brilliant march!
I hereby apply with this piece from Prussia.
Zeiten and Keith are both characters in their own right.A brilliant march!
The second stanza is from the Hohenfriedberger.
If you like these German classics, among their ten or so best, you may like this one about Fritz.
I would be very happy if you would tell me any other kind of music - marching music - you'd like to hear.
my own favourite, Keel Row,
Prussian Drill style (goosestep)
Haha.... that kind of stuff was parodied in a children's TV show by Robin williams of all people....the silly walks of british officers.... I fondly remember such things now (and I miss Robin so much too)I want to remove that jump-step before eyes right
just because some moron saw the Scots pipers swagger and thought rocking like that was a great idea.
<sigh>Sometimes you got to peel the layers a whole lot and you do end up in "Germany" again regarding some tunes...
Going OTOH a bit....sorry if I got any of this wrong (its quite possible):
DDR Matrosen Von Kronstadt (one of my favourite "military" songs).....
Comes from the famous soviet tune (forward red marines!).....I been told a cpl different reasons by some russian friends I know as to why this song was made after conclusion of the kronstadt rebellion (those sailors considered reddest of the red). Quite a poignant story of its own
But that song actually came from the polish march song about the Polish rebellion of 1830: Gdy Naród Do Boju (When the nation fights!)
.......but that tune actually takes influences from Chopin variations on opus 2
which in turn uses a theme from Don Giovanni* by Mozart (the duo between giovanni and zerlina)....which has been used direct or influeced several other pieces of music that come to memory (points if anyone can mention any).
Mozart is technically Austrian I suppose, but you get my point hehe.
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*Don Giovanni btw is one of reasons why I rate Mozart the absolute prodigious best of all time if you ever were to put a gun to my head and force me to pick "one".
The overture was (apparently) written at the absolute last moment when it was mentioned to him it was missing a day? before the opera premiered.... (mozart apparently saying "not to worry, its all in my head!")
Difficult to pick and choose, but I prefer the Marriage of Figaro, and ONE aria from the Magic Flute.<sigh>
That WAS Mozart.
No wonder he drove Salieri up the wall.
I would be very happy if you would tell me any other kind of music - marching music - you'd like to hear.