Band Music

Everyone loves a band. No football game, parade, circus, or Fourth of July Celebration be quite complete without a rousing march. Not only does everyone love to hear a band, but almost everyone loves to play in one. In the United States alone there are millions of people who play in bands now or who have palyed in school, college, or town bands.
The world band is a broad term that describes a groups of musicians performing on wind and percussion ainstruments. One thinks immediately of a brightly uniformed marching band, perhaps part of an army or navy unit or the band of college or high school.
Aside from marching bands that entertain at fairs, public ceremonies, and informal social gatherings, there are other bands that exist only to perform music in a concert, just as an orchestra does. Such bands are known as concert or symphonic bands, or wind ensembles. What all bands have in common is that they are composed of wind and percussion. Band usually have at least 50 palyers.
Since band often perform out-of-doors, they require instrumens whose sound carry easily. Trumpet, trombones, tubas, horn, drums-all are instruments capable of making plenty of noise with little effort on the part of the player. The large family of woodwinds, icluding clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and flutes (and their relative, bass clarinets, English horn, saxophones, and piccolos), also has this advantage.
A second requirement is that the instruments be easy to carry. It is impossible to march while playing a cello or double bass; even the violin is not easy to play while one is walking. But one can easily play brass and woodwind instrument while marching. And of course the band has always required instruments that cerate the proper military excitement. For this the brass and percussion instruments are perfect.
There is a special type of band called a brass band. As its name implies, it uses only brass instrument and no woodwinds. Many excellent Salvation Army bands are of this type. They usually have 24 players and produce a good, well-blended sound despite their limits of tone quality and range.