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United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2008. A military cadence or cadence call is a call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. They are counterparts of the military march.
Marching songs, typically with patriotic and sometimes nostalgic lyrics, are often sung by soldiers as they march. The songs invariably feature a rhythm timed to the cadence of the march. There are many examples from the American Civil War, such as "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" and "John Brown's Body".
During the American Civil War, music played a prominent role on each side of the conflict, Union (the North) and Confederate (the South). On the battlefield, different instruments including bugles, drums, and fifes were played to issue marching orders or sometimes simply to boost the morale of one's fellow soldiers.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.
"Peat Bog Soldiers" (German: Die Moorsoldaten) is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages and became a Republican anthem during the Spanish Civil War. [1] It was a symbol of resistance during the Second World War and is popular with the Peace movement today.
The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered that his pen pal's name ...
A Russian version of the poem, Pyl' (Russian: Пыль, Dust), was set to music by Soviet bard Evgeny Agranovich during the Second World War, and used as a marching song in his unit. The unit's commissar enjoyed the song, but disapproved of the foreign lyrics. Because of this, Agranovich later added several verses of his own invention to the march.
Foley artists make sounds for movies using objects. There are surprising methods for creating everything from a horse chewing to a punch in the face. 10 surprising ways sounds are made for movies