Marching in a sentence

Backwards marching usually employs the same preference for leg straightness as forward marching (if the band marches with legs completely straight while marching forwards, they also do so while marching backwards, to preserve uniformity of style).

Jackson Memorial High School’s Jaguar Marching Band is hosting the highly anticipated “Showcase of Champions,” a competition that brings together award-winning marching bands from across the state.

In July of 2024, the Gulfport Gecko Amalgamated Marching Band celebrated six years of marching while playing music.

Members of the Onyx Militaires under 18 marching team performed for friends and family before flying to the Gold Coast for the inaugural 2023 Australia and New Zealand Drill Dance and Marching Tattoo in July.

This year, professional marching bands and other musical groups will take over those roles -- though high school and college marching bands have been invited to join next year's parade instead.

But I still performed, because I was in a marching band, a very good marching band, a concert band.

Berne Union Golden Rocket Marching Band walks toward the performing field in the 44th Athens Invitaional Marching Festival on Oct. 6, 2018, in Athens, Ohio.

On November 8, 2016, none of us had any idea that we’d be marching on Washington ten weeks later, much less that millions of people all over the world would be marching along with us.

They are marching out of schools and marching on the steps of the Florida Capitol.

Cadences and marching steps main Because of its slower pace, the Foreign Legion is always the last unit marching in any parade (Parade in Rome, June 2007).

In 1792, Rouget de Lisle composed in Strasbourg the Revolutionary marching song " La Marseillaise " (as Marching song for the Army of the Rhine), which later became the anthem of France.

Lateral Marching When band members are marching in one direction but want to focus their sound in another, they may rotate their bodies at the waist, so that only the upper portion of the body faces in the direction of play.

Longstreet calculated that he had sufficient time to allow his men, tired from marching all day, to rest and the First Corps did not resume marching until after midnight.

Marching horn The marching horn is quite similar to the mellophone in shape and appearance, but is pitched in the key of B (the same as the B side of a regular double horn).

Most marching bands opt for the sousaphone, an instrument that is easier to carry and almost always cheaper than a true marching tuba.

Muffling a marching bass drum There are a few different ways to properly muffle a marching bass drum.

Other The Marching and Cycling Band HHK from Haarlem (the Netherlands) is one of the few marching bands around the world which also performs on bicycles.

Parades issue main Orangemen marching in Bangor on the Twelfth of July 2010 Inter-communal tensions rise and violence often breaks out during the "marching season" when the Protestant Orange Order parades take place across Northern Ireland.

Proper execution of a roll step gives a player marching at 40 beats per minute the same smooth tone as a player marching at 180. The roll step allows for much better control of the upper body, and thus better control of the air support needed for playing.

The Marching Illini Drumline with double baldrics The University of Illinois Marching Illini wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.