When and by who was the military tradition of singing cadences started?
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At least before when Gladius, leading his Roman Century Started with "There was a young lady from Naples" -- Opps, just remember I have to keep it clean in here....
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My County 'Tis of Thee.\n\nThe Star Spangled Banner was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931.
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Wasn't able to find anything on how it started or when, but I found a couple of links where you might be able to get some more information.  I did find some speculation on it originating from Maypole dancing or tree dancing, but nothing solid.  Good luck.
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My favorite one is now outlawed and I can't remember it too well it was so long ago, but it was about napalm sticking to kids!  No wonder it's outlawed nowadays.\n\nBut I have to agree with one of the other folks. Most of the units I was assigned to never ran to cadence. We ran on our own, so I don't know hardly any cadence except for the traditional airborne ones like the C-130 ones...\n\nWe actually had a Ranger at a unit once do the ranger candence..you know "R is for whatever, etc... anyway, he said N is for knowledge!  The formation just about broke apart laughing!"
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When we were kids  these were school and playtime games.Also a great rhyme was ring a ring a roses.Which was really about the great plague That's not to say they all were.But OUaB moor and TNWD blow are of norse origin which makes them even earlier So the great about 1660 and earlier
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On June 5, 1898, a week before Philippine independence would be declared, Julian Felipe, a local pianist from Kawit, Cavite, arrived at the home of Maximo Inocencio, one of Cavite's thirteen martyrs during the revolution. Upon his arrival, the leader of the revolution, General Emilio Aguinaldo, asked Felipe to play a march written by a Filipino in Hong Kong. However, Aguinaldo was not satisfied with this march. Recognizing Felipe's skills, he asked him to compose a more soul-rousing tune that would install courage and patriotism in the hearts of every Filipino.\n\nOn June 11, the day before the declaration of independence, Felipe arrived again and played his tune to the revolutionary leaders. The leaders unanimously approved it as the national hymn. Felipe called his\nwork the "Marcha Filipina Magdalo."\n\nOn June 12, Felipe's tune was played during the hoisting of the Philippine flag at the historic window at the Aguinaldo mansion. The march was renamed the "Marcha Nacional Filipina," and immediately became the National Anthem. However, the anthem still lacked words. The next year, a young soldier named José Palma penned the poem "Filipinas" in Spanish, to match the music of the anthem. It was adopted as the official lyrics.
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OOH-RAH is definitely Marine Corps thing.  Other branches may have variations -- such as the Army's HOO-AH.  But don't confuse the two.  Here's the history of the Marine's OOH-RAH:\n\nRight after Korea in 1953 the 1st Amphibious Reconnaissance Company, FMFPAC can be credited with the birth of "OORAH" in the Corps. \n\nSpecifically, where it came from was when Recon Marines were aboard the Submarine USS PERCH, ASSP-313. The Perch was an old WWII diesel boat retrofitted to carry UDT and Amphib Recon Marines. If you remember the old war movies, whenever the boat was to dive, you heard on the PA system, "DIVE,DIVE", and you heard the horn sound "AARUGHA", like an old Model "A" horn. \n\nSometime in 1953 or 1954, 1st Amphib Recon Marines, while on a conditioning run on land singing chants, someone imitated the "Dive" horn sound "AARUGHA", and it naturally became a Recon Warrior chant or mantra while on runs. It is sort of like the martial arts yell and adds a positive inference to the action. And this became part of Recon lexicon. \n\nFormer SgtMaj of the Marine Corps, John Massaro, was the company gunny of 1st Force in the late 50s and when he tansferred to MCRDSD as an instructor at DI school he took "AARUGHA" with him and passed it on to the DI students and they , in turn, passed it on to recruits. \n\nJust as "Gung Ho" became symbolic of the WWII Raiders, so did "AARUGHA" become part of the new "running Marine Corps." \n\nOver time, "AARUGHA" EVENTUALLY CHANGED TO "OORAH". The official Marine Corps Training Reference Manual on the history of Marine Recon is titled "AARUGHA", giving credence on the orgination of the 'POSITIVE RESPONSE' accenting anything that is meant to be good and uniquely Marine Corps.
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I always liked this one. It sounds awesome with a big group of people singing it. It is meant to be a marching cadence.\n\nIN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN\n\nGot a letter in the mail\nGo to war or go to jail\nGot a letter in the mail\nIn the early morning rain\n\nI packed my bags, I kissed my wife\nAnd headed for the Army life\nI packed my bags, I kissed my wife\nIn the early morning rain\n\nI told my son not to cry\nBut I had tears in my eyes\nI told my son not to cry\nIn the early morning rain\n\nWith my weapon in my hand\nAnd a pocket full of sand\nWith my weapon in my hand\nIn the early morning rain\n\nGot the enemy to my front\nAnd the ocean to my rear\nWounded dying's all I hear\nIn the early morning rain\n\nAs I'm laying here to rest\nCaught a bullet in the chest\nEven though I've done my best\nIn the early morning rain\n\nTell my darling not to cry\nCause I'll never say good-bye\nTell my darling not to cry\nIn the early morning rain\n\nMany a soldier will die today\nGuess there's nothing left to say\nSo our children, they can play\nIn the early morning rain\n\nYes, now Sergeant I can see\nWhy this training's good for me\nForever more we will be free\nIn the early morning rain
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The human voice used for singing.
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It started off as a raunchy song from the military, "Do Your Balls Hang Low?" Other verses named other pendulous body parts, easily guessed. It was completely sanitized and became a children's song, often sung at summer camp, preschools, etc. \n\nIn Britain, there is a raunchy rugby song with similar lyrics. This song may have come from an old British naval song that used "Continental soldier" because the four syllables of continental go well with soldier (and rhymes with shoulder - well, kind of!) ... and refers to British American colonists whom British sailors enjoyed taunting. Anything I find about origins, lists simply "Traditional" and "Anonymous."\n\nThe two tunes most often used for this song are "Sailor's Hornpipe" and "Turkey in the Straw."
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I think the song was based on "Fired Up, Feels Good" - US Marine Corps Cadence song \nI think you can listen to "Fired up, Feels good" here http://www.theunit-hq.net/the-songs/the-unit-songs.html
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Semper Fidelis. Latin for "always faithful"
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the us army was founded on july 14, 1775
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Here's a few:\n\nSeveral undergraduate arts organizations have venerable histories.The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (est. 1808 as the Pierian Sodality) is the nation's oldest continuous musical organization, while the Hasty Pudding Club (est. 1795 as a social group) has produced theatrical shows since 1844 (student-written since the mid-1860s), making it the nation's oldest drama group. The Harvard Lampoon (est. 1876) is the country's oldest humor magazine. The annual Christmas Carol Services (est. 1910) of the University Choir (est. 1834) are believed to be the oldest tradition of lessons and carols in the United States. In 1930, the Harvard Band (est. 1919) introduced the cleverly shaped field formations that have since become standard halftime fare at football games.
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In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition, often set apart by being played in long notes.\n\nComposition using a cantus firmus was a common technique in Medieval music, forming the basis of organum as well as 13th- and 14th-century motets. In these works the cantus firmus was originally always taken from Gregorian Chant and was the fixed melodic material, moving in long notes, around which other more florid lines, instrumental and/or vocal, were composed. (This line was usually allocated to the tenor, from the Latin verb 'tenere', to hold).\n\nIn the early Renaissance composers experimented with other ways of using the cantus firmus, such as introducing it into each voice as a contrapuntal subject (theme), or using it with a variety of rhythms, or using secular tunes for cantus firmi, even in sacred compositions. In the thirteenth century, the tenor had the ancient chant melodies altered, fragmented, and hidden beneath secular tunes, obscuring the sacred texts as composers continued to play with this new invention called polyphony. The lyrics of love poems might be sung in the vernacular above sacred Latin texts in the form of a trope, or the sacred text might be placed within a familiar secular melody.\n\nFor centuries, this was starkly rejected by the Church. It was not merely the clash of notes that offended medieval ears, but the notion of secular music merging with the sacred and making it’s way into the liturgy. It gave church music more of a jocular performance quality, removing the solemn worship they were accustomed to. Monks, Bishops, and Popes all agreed that such musical practices should not be used in worship and wrote treatises against it. This musical practice gained the most ground while the popes were ruling from outside of Rome. The use of and attitude toward polyphony varied widely in the papal court at Avignon from the beginning to the end of its religious importance in the fourteenth century. Pope John XXII wrote against it in Docta Sanctorum Patrum1324, but Clement VI invited it into his chapel twenty years later with great enthusiasm.\n\nProbably the most widely set of the secular cantus firmus melodies was L'homme armé. Over 30 settings are known. Most early Renaissance masters each set at least one mass on this melody, and the practice lasted into the seventeenth century, with a late setting by Carissimi. Some have suggested that the 'armed man' represents St Michael the Archangel, while others have suggested it merely represents the name of a popular tavern (Maison L'Homme Arme) near Dufay's rooms in Cambrai. Being that this music arose during the time of the crusades, it is possible that the text "the armed man should be feared" was used as propaganda supporting the Knights in the Middle East. Other secular examples include 'Fortuna Desperata', 'Mille regretz' and 'The western wynde'.\n\nSetting the cantus firmus was the essential pedagogical tool in Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux and formed the basis of teaching his species counterpoint.\n\nGerman composers in the Baroque period in Germany, notably Bach, used chorale melodies as cantus firmi. In the opening movement of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" appears in long notes, sung by a separate choir of boys "in ripieno". Many of his chorale preludes include a chorale tune in the pedal part.
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Though these were all true, it can be argued that the Virginia Colonial Marines (regiments that were recruited to be auxiliaries to the British Royal Marines, I am unsure of their proper title  though) raised during the French and Indian War was the real beginning of the US Marine tradition.
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The French Fourragere \n\nThe Fourragere is a combat decoration instituted by Napoleon for units that distinguished themselves in battle. In 1918, Marines of the 5th and 6th Regiments, by their deeds of valor, inscribed the names of momentous and brilliant battles on the pages of Marine Corps History. They have the single honor of being the only two Regiments in the A.E.F. to receive three citations, two in the Order of the Army and one in the Orders of the Corps. The Fourragere and the Croix de Guerre with two palms and one Gilt Star. The first award of the Croix de Guerre came after the Battle of Belleau Wood. The second award of the Croix de Guerre followed shortly after the Battle of Soissons. The final award came after the Battle of Champagne, which opened the western approaches to the Argonne.