Is drum corps marching band?

[triplefunk]

Why does it need to be seperated? I thought it already was.

I've seen marching band drumlines that are better than top 12 corps lines.

This just points out the arrogance of some corps people. Would you think the same if you found out he played first trumpet for Marion Catholic, Ronald Reagan or Carmel? There are phenomonal players out there that never march corps and to judge someone's playing ability by being in a marching band or a drum corps is elitist at best. How many musicians just do marching band or drum corps? Very few. Most play in orchestras or concert bands, or have for a significant point in their playing careers.

Canadian Brass. Ronald Romm

[Jeff Ream]

You took what I said the wrong way. I don't care about the arguement. Really why should we.

The topic that NEEDS to be discuss is... How do we seperate Drum Corps from Marching Band.

Like Hoppy said, to people not in the acrtivity: Drum Corps = Marching Band.

in an email to alumni, he said drum corps is dead, marching band is the future.

[Jeff Ream]

Marching Band people know the difference, too. I don't think

ANY marching band person considers it the same as drum corps.

well the guy who runs a corps and a band circuit can't :P

[baristeve]

if you think drum corps is marching band you should probably kill yourself.

[Hrothgar15]

if you think drum corps is marching band you should probably kill yourself.

w/Stp:

[Hup234]

Thank you for starting this post.

A Drum and Bugle Corps by definition is comprised of drums and bugles.

Using common definitions of accepted word usages:

If a marching group uses drums and brass instruments exclusively (we're going to call brass saxophones by the accepted definition as woodwind instruments), it is either a brass band or a drum and bugle corps.

Defining further:

If the brass complement in that unit has three valves, it is a brass band.

If the brass complement has two, one or no valves, it is a drum and bugle corps.

If woodwinds are added, it becomes a band.

A unit using only drums is a drum corps.

A drum corps with bells added is a drum and bell corps.

But a drum corps with added fifes is a fife and drum corps, with the word fife preceding drum.

With no musical instruments at all, the marching unit is a drill team.

It can't be a brass band if woodwinds are included, and it can't be a drum and bugle corps without bugles.

In terms of three-valve instruments:

Bell-front soprano brass instruments are simply called trumpets, or cornets.

Bell-front mellophones are mellophoniums.

Other bell-front instruments are correctly termed "bell-front -" or "marching trombones, euphoniums and french horns". The lowest brass are "horizontal marching tubas". ("Contrabass" is a misnomer as applied to these horns, as a contrabass tuba is pitched one octave below a standard tuba.)

Using common word definitions, today's competitive "drum corps" are really brass bands.

[Kamarag]

if you think drum corps is marching band you should probably kill yourself.

...and if you think it's not, you're deluding yourself.

[RegimentContra94]

if you think drum corps is marching band you should probably kill yourself.

I'm assuming this is an ill-conceived joke of some sort. Why isn't it exactly? Several people seem to be of the opinion that it isn't, but I have yet to see a concrete argument for that position.

[JimF-LowBari]

...and if you think it's not, you're deluding yourself.

And if DC ain't quite MB yet it's sure been getting closer and closer over the last few years.

[dbc03]

if you think drum corps is marching band you should probably kill yourself.

I assure you that drum corps is not a life and death matter.

After all, it's just marching band.