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When an individual thinks about a demanding sport, more than likely their first response would be football, basketball, or something of that nature. A sport involves physical exertion and skill in which a single person or team compete in a competition for entertainment. Contradictory to what an average person would think, marching band is just as much a sport than football or basketball. Marching band is a sport because of all the competitions, the physical exercise, and the discipline it takes to

It began during my 8th grade year, I started to play in the marching band for the football games and parades. Percussion was my cup of tea because I know that I could nail it by reading and memorizing the music more often. It took me days to memorize my music for the half-time performances, especially for the parades. Meanwhile at the football field for the first time ever, I begin to think that maybe it did not turn out to be bad after all. For the rest of the football season during half-time, I

Members: To be a member of the Titan Regiment marching band the only thing that you really need is to have motivation and drive. If you have motivation to drive you through the long hot summer days and the early fall days as well outside. The benefits of being a member is that you will become apart of the biggest activity system in the entire school. Also you will have access to the band room to not only practice your instruments but as well as have a quiet study place for challenging classes. Unlike

Summer before junior year of high school, I was looking at a lot of standardized tests, essays, a heavier school workload, college applications, and getting a driver's license; my most immediate concern, however, was the soon to begin marching band season. Spring semester of sophomore year I had decided to audition for a leadership position in the band, and I suppose I was the best candidate because I managed to snag Section Leader for my instrument, clarinet. As the final days of July passed by

The Penn Hills Marching Band is by no means a small band, boasting approximately eighty members for the 2016-2017 season. However, there is always room for improvement, especially when accounting for the large population of our school district. There are many recruitment strategies that the band could employ to boost participation, as well as increase enthusiasm within the group. All members of the band should work to recruit across a much broader range of students; appealing to middle school concert

Mr. Greubel (Dad), I would like to start by saying I would like to say that being the drum major for our marching band would be an absolute honor. Being Drum Major is one of the most important jobs during this wonderful season and would need to be under great care - which I think I’m capable of. This position is one that I’ve cared about since I first stepped out onto the marching field. I’ve always been inspired to be a leader and to endure the heavy, yet rewarding responsibility. So, what leadership

While watching the marching band perform at Kennedy Middle School for three years, I was always amazed by their talent, precision, and energetic spirit. I knew that the oboe was not a marching instrument, although that was the instrument I played in the middle school band. I was destined to find a way to be apart of the amazing experience that is, the Wall of Sound. I emailed as many friends that I knew in the marching band and talked with the directors to find out how I could become involved with

A paradiddle is a rudiment used to practice accents and tempo on the snare drum. Once one learns the paradiddle, it could be identified in nearly every rock song. However, without the snare drum, the paradiddle would not have that same groove that it does today. Meaning that music would not be the same either. The snare drum is the catalyst for a clear majority of the music played today. The snare drum dates to as far as 6000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Back then, it was simply a square piece

The use of music as a motif in (Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange 1962)] creates a lens so that the viewer is able to recognize the trend that violence has to destroy an individual’s identity. Although Alex (Malcolm McDowell) clearly associates violence with his own individual identity and sense of self, he consistently reveals the impossibility of remaining an individual in the face of group-oriented violence. The images that music create coincide the destruction of Alex’s identity, either through

Linking the fundamental conflict between individual identity and societal identity with musical imagery in the story “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess, creates a lens through which one can recognize the tendency that violence can destroy an individual’s identity. The main protagonist and narrator of the story is Alex and although he associates violence with his own individual identity and sense of self, he consistently reveals the impossibility of remaining an individual in the face of group-oriented