5fish
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2019
- Messages
- 10,739
- Reaction score
- 4,570
Here an article with music clips in it about music in the army in the Civil War... learn about the songs that kept camp life going....
snip...
As more than three million men and boys from the North and the South marched to war in the 1860s, so did America’s music. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, reportedly said, “I don’t believe we can have an army without music.” From marching music to camp songs, from concerts to “Taps,” music moved the armies through daily activities, rallied morale, incited conflict, and defused tensions. Soldiers also sang their own music, often at their evening encampments, for comfort and camaraderie.
snip...
Field musicians included the fife-and-drum corps with the marching units and the buglers that accompanied both the cavalry and the infantry. These musicians marked the activities of daily wartime life, including wake up, lights-out, roll call, and drills. The music also helped organize the movement of the troops (think marching) and even conveyed combat orders to soldiers, who were trained to recognize these commands.
snip...
More formal than the fife-and-drum corps, bands were assigned to Army units. Regulations stipulated up to 24 musicians a band; in practice this number varied greatly. Occasionally existing bands enlisted as a group, but typically it became too costly to pay these professional bands as the war went on. Because brass instruments and trained musicians were scarcer in the South than in the North, the Confederate Army included fewer (and smaller) bands than did the Union Army
snip...
Loading…
www.kennedy-center.org
snip...
As more than three million men and boys from the North and the South marched to war in the 1860s, so did America’s music. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, reportedly said, “I don’t believe we can have an army without music.” From marching music to camp songs, from concerts to “Taps,” music moved the armies through daily activities, rallied morale, incited conflict, and defused tensions. Soldiers also sang their own music, often at their evening encampments, for comfort and camaraderie.
snip...
Field musicians included the fife-and-drum corps with the marching units and the buglers that accompanied both the cavalry and the infantry. These musicians marked the activities of daily wartime life, including wake up, lights-out, roll call, and drills. The music also helped organize the movement of the troops (think marching) and even conveyed combat orders to soldiers, who were trained to recognize these commands.
snip...
More formal than the fife-and-drum corps, bands were assigned to Army units. Regulations stipulated up to 24 musicians a band; in practice this number varied greatly. Occasionally existing bands enlisted as a group, but typically it became too costly to pay these professional bands as the war went on. Because brass instruments and trained musicians were scarcer in the South than in the North, the Confederate Army included fewer (and smaller) bands than did the Union Army
snip...
Loading…
www.kennedy-center.org