Informative Speech On Marching Band
Topic: The different types of marching bands.
Speech Purpose: To Inform
Specific Speech Purpose: To inform others that there are different types of marching bands, and that all have different styles and require different techniques.
Introduction
Attention-getter: When you think of a marching band, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you think of a pep band that you see in the stands during a football game? Or do you think of a military band marching in a parade?
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who typically perform outdoors and combine marching or other movements with a musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion with the addition of the flag, rifle, and sabre units into "auxiliaries". These individuals march with the band and provide visual flair by spinning and tossing flags or mock weapons. These elements combined help to interpret the music that the marching band or drum and bugle corps is playing via their synchronized work.
Thesis statement: Marching bands can be categorized based on primary function, instrumentation, and style. A marching band not only performs musical compositions, but also entertains with …show more content…
Military bands are historically the first marching band to have been created. The instrumentation varies but generally contains brass, percussion, and woodwinds. Military marching bands march forward only in straight lines, rarely making curves. Music is played at a constant tempo of 120 BPM to provide a steady beat for military units to march at. Almost all military marching bands have disappeared from schools in the United States, exceptions are the “Fightin' Texas Aggie Band from Texas A&M and the Highty-Tighties of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets” (Marching Band, New World Encyclopedia). These bands have formed the National Association of Military Marching Bands in order to preserve the tradition of military marching and keep it as original as
Speech Purpose: To Inform
Specific Speech Purpose: To inform others that there are different types of marching bands, and that all have different styles and require different techniques.
Introduction
Attention-getter: When you think of a marching band, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you think of a pep band that you see in the stands during a football game? Or do you think of a military band marching in a parade?
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who typically perform outdoors and combine marching or other movements with a musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion with the addition of the flag, rifle, and sabre units into "auxiliaries". These individuals march with the band and provide visual flair by spinning and tossing flags or mock weapons. These elements combined help to interpret the music that the marching band or drum and bugle corps is playing via their synchronized work.
Thesis statement: Marching bands can be categorized based on primary function, instrumentation, and style. A marching band not only performs musical compositions, but also entertains with …show more content…
Military bands are historically the first marching band to have been created. The instrumentation varies but generally contains brass, percussion, and woodwinds. Military marching bands march forward only in straight lines, rarely making curves. Music is played at a constant tempo of 120 BPM to provide a steady beat for military units to march at. Almost all military marching bands have disappeared from schools in the United States, exceptions are the “Fightin' Texas Aggie Band from Texas A&M and the Highty-Tighties of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets” (Marching Band, New World Encyclopedia). These bands have formed the National Association of Military Marching Bands in order to preserve the tradition of military marching and keep it as original as