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Definition of Military band
1. Noun. A group of musicians playing brass and woodwind and percussion instruments.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Band
Literary usage of Military band
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The modern so-called concert military band is a development of the brass band,
... The concert military band has reached its greatest development in the ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The average military band ¡э composed as follows: 2 1st В flat clarinets; 2 seconds,
... The concert military band includes such additions to the regular ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Although professedly for military band, this overture is not effective for ...
Even in the composer's time Wieprecht rearranged it for military band. ..."
4. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"WE went to hear the military band play last evening in the Grand Square : it was
a splendid band, ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"THE military band by D -K- Stevens AMONG the Be-Ba-Bocs whose fame Has traveled
wide and far, Drum-Major Roland Roly / Was a celebrated star. ..."
6. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"A military band. 5 Thebes. The trumpet was particularly, though not exclusively,
appropriated to martial purposes. It was straight, like the Roman tuba, ..."
7. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"A Chinese standing listening to the military band playing in Hongkong was asked
his opinion of it, and he said the music lacked harmony. ..."
8. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1860)
"... in which he rejoiced over the artistic skill of the members, and strongly
intimated that we had at last a military band worthy of some notice. ..."
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