Our Marching Civilization: An Introduction to the Study of Music and Society (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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When I came to the history of the march, however, the materials available were so rich and as yet so unassembled that the temptation grew to devote a project to it. The march is not only a musical form; it is in itself suggestive of the condition we have set up for civilization. Mankind is civilized, we believe, when it shows capacity for progress, for getting out of the rut in which a vegetating culture is content, for lifting weaker members to their feet so they may go ahead with the strong to higher levels of living in thought and in action. We therefore speak automatically of the march of this or that whenever we mean that this or that has been improved or has itself improved the life of man.

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