Essays Tagged: "Pomp and Circumstance Marches"

Listening: Introductory Concepts

Selection: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1Composer: Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)This listening selection can be ... ve a Specific Purpose". The title of this piece comes from a line in Shakespeare's Othello ("Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!"), in 1901. This outwardly straightforward music is known as ...

(2 pages) 68 1 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies