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The drum and lyre corps originated in the Philippines, as an economical alternative to regular brass bands or drum and bugle corps. The instrumentation of drum and lyre corps consists of a typical marching band (snare, tenor, bass drums, and cymbals) with the bell lyre section. The lyre sections consist of bell lyres, glockenspiels, as well as ...
The following is a list of current drum corps competing as members of Drum Corps International (DCI). [1] Member corps. World Class members Corps ...
The Venezuelan corps of drums has about 350 members. The corps is led by a single drum major. In some corps, especially in civil-based ones, other brass instruments may be added to the bugle section. [18] Military corps have tabards applied on the bass drums, snare drums, glockenspiels, and bugles at every performance.
After the members chose a drum and bugle corps, their parents immediately started a new booster club to support the new corps. They waited until its members met for rehearsal the following week to select a name. After discussing and rejecting several possible names, the corps chose Santa Clara Vanguard.
In 1934, Charles Mura, Michael Koeph, and the Rev. Edwin Garrity of the Holy Name Catholic parish in Garfield, New Jersey founded the Holy Name Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps as an activity for the boys in the parish. The corps quickly became one of the top competitive corps in the country. In 1937, the song, "O Holy Name", was written for the corps.
The Muchachos Drum and Bugle Corps [d] was an Open Class corps formed in 1959 as the junior corps component to the senior corps, the Hawthorne Caballeros. Like the Caballeros, the group was sponsored by American Legion Post #199 of Hawthorne, New Jersey and was known for their Latin-inspired shows. [ 50 ]
The "drum line" term began to be used by other marching percussion ensembles in the 70's along with the instrumentation used in the drum & bugle corps activity. This includes multi-tenor drums and pitched bass drums with split parts, embellishments like back-sticking and stick tosses, and innovations like mylar drumheads.
The Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps was founded on October 1, 1974, through the merger of two suburban Philadelphia drum and bugle corps: the Keystone Regiment and the 507 Hornets. [1] The name "Crossmen" was chosen, from a list of 43 proposed names, by the members of the new corps in recognition of American Legion Post 507, which was named in ...