Drums are easier to hear in battle than voice commands. You very quickly learn the drumbeats that go with commands for Prime and Load, Make Ready, Fire!, and there was also Cease Fire, Parley, things like that. Then there were drill and battle commands, primarily for drums but many had optional fife parts as well. There were short ditties like Musician's Call and NCO's Call-I suspect these were composed for the purpose and were not clips from other songs, but I don't know. "Roast Beef" called the troops to dinner, "The General" was used to strike the camp.
The Org needs You Please visit the Watchtower for more information on how to help. Many marching tunes were just popular songs of the day, and vice versa, and most had lyrics (as well as dirty parodies!).Ĭertain tunes were used as communication. Wambat is holding a weekly raffle giveaway of Steam games to promote the Fourth Age Total War mod and his Lets Play campaign Check out the announcement thread here. Gotta say that marching to fifes and drums is GLORIOUS. As far as I know, strictly military applications used only fifes and drums (meaning America, England, Germany, France), but regiments may have had bands with more instruments, and certainly troops relaxing had penny whistles and the like. Oh, there was LOTS of music made for general marching and entertainment.
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