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2. Circus music - Wikipedia

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   String instruments were no longer used in "traditional" circus bands to make "traditional" circus music, which is defined by Merle Evans as music that is brighter in tone than other music. [ 13 ] Sounds of cornets, trumpets, trombones, French horns, baritones, and tubas were able to reach far and wide, signaling to entire towns that the circus ...

3. Merle Evans - Wikipedia

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   Merle Slease Evans (December 26, 1891 – December 31, 1987) was an American cornet player and circus band conductor who conducted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for fifty years. He was known as the " Toscanini of the Big Top."

4. Screamer (march) - Wikipedia

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   Screamers were mostly composed in a 60-year period (1895–1955). Circuses were in need of music that would stir the audience into a frenzy, as four-footed animals galloped across the ring. Because march music was a prominent part of American music at that time, and because it carried such a quick tempo, it was this that ringmasters demanded.

5. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - Wikipedia

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   Most of the lyrics came from a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal appearance at Rochdale. It was one of three songs from the Sgt. Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase "Henry the Horse" combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.

6. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Wikipedia

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   A music video for the live version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was directed by Olivier Gondry. It contains footage shot by the audience on 250 cameras at Daft Punk's Brooklyn performance in KeySpan Park (now called Maimonides Park) in Coney Island. The video was inspired by the Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!. [1]

7. Frolic (song) - Wikipedia

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   "Frolic" is commonly seen as being connected to circus music. This connotation comes from the rhythms and instruments (specifically tuba and mandolin ) [ 13 ] used in the song by Michelini. [ 14 ] Additional inspiration comes from the bossa nova , which can be heard in the harmony of the song.

8. The Circus (1928 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Circus finally premiered in New York City on January 6, 1928, at the Strand Theatre, [12] and in Los Angeles on January 27 at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. [13] It came right at the beginning of the sound film era, [ 14 ] with the very first feature sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), having been released just months earlier.

9. Circus Polka - Wikipedia

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   Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production that the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus .