Marching And Concert Band

There has often been a lot of perplexity relating the differences between Marching and Concert Band. The most imperative fact is that they both shift together as one band. Regular high school bands are known as “marching bands” in the months of August, September, and October. Concert season begins right after marching season ends in the middle of November, and lasts until the end of May. Bands are similar and different in many different high schools due to different teaching techniques and methods. Highlighting the music fans in general, there are no two types of bands that form the foundation of music education as great as the marching and concert bands. In the first type, the band marches in parades and puts on quite a show with them outlining shapes and drill patterns on the marching field. For the views during concert season, they just assemble down and perform marches, famous classics, and melodic pieces. Although many students confuse the arts of concert and marching band, their differences and similarities unite together to function as a unit.
Many people think that marching bands are just there to participate in parades and have fun playing instruments. They believe that marching band is easily spotted by students who wear shako hats with lofty plumes and stride in high-step, and especially correlating those in colleges and universities. They do much more than just parades and marching around the parking lot. Band members form drill and demonstrate their marching show on football fields while competing against other high school bands. Many people in general consider band to be a pure sport while others consider it to be a form of a musical art. Few people say that marching band is a combination of both the physical ac...

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...dents perform which relates the two and unites them to become alike.
Generally people confuse the two types of bands because of their instrumental availability in different seasons. The differences of these two are the wide variety of instruments and the environment. The simulations are the effects and exact same styles of music being performed. Performance and competitions are similar activities that both of the bands experience. Overall one thing that they have in common are the goals and teaching methods being educated. Music educators and directors try to enforce that it’s not all about the winning title but about what we learned throughout the interminable journey and what has permeated through musical knowledge. James states that “recognition is best earned not through what we have done for ourselves, but that which we have done for others” (Middleton 184).