What is the music called which the military in the 1700s marched to on the battlefield?

What is the music called which the military in the 1700s marched to on the battlefield?What is the music called which the military in the 1700s marched to on the battlefield?
The music, and the bands that played it, developed and changed quite a lot in the 18th Century. At the beginning of the century, fifes and drums were almost the only instruments in an Army band. By the Napoleonic Wars, bands sounded very much as they do today - brass, woodwind, drums etc.



The other contribution, of course, came from the Scots, who brought their pipes into the British Army from the 1750s onwards.



Much of the new military music came from Germany, but there are a number of 18th Century marches and marching songs still known today, that were British or French in origin. They include (in probable date order of origin)



Over the hills and far away

Aupres de ma Blonde

Hey Johnnie Cope

The British Grenadiers

Rule Britannia

The Marseillaise

The Girl I Left Behind Me



The American favourite, Garryowen, comes from the very end of the 18th Century. Possibly more of an officers' song, it was sung in Irish regiments of the British Army before making its way, like so much else from Ireland, across the Atlantic.



Finally - as an ex-Wren - I ought not to leave out Hearts of Oak, even though it was not originally written as a march but as a patriotic song derived from the Marine drummer's call to Quarters, or Action Stations. Still with us, and I brace up and straighten my back whenever I hear it!What is the music called which the military in the 1700s marched to on the battlefield?
It was, and still is, called "Martial Music".

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