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Music of War-Battle Music
This is a representative list which has connotations of War and Battles.
Name |
Composer |
Remarks |
| 1812 Overture | Tchaikovsky | Classic Overture with Guns |
| 633 Squadron | Goodwin | March Celebrates the famous Dam Busters Squadron |
| 74th Farewell to Gibraltar | Unknown | Pipe Music |
| A Bridge To Far | Anderson | Arnhem Bridge/Movie |
| A Hundred Pipers | Lady Naire | Crimean War |
| A Life on teh Ocean Wave | Russel/Sargeant | Royal Marines |
| Abide With Me | Monke/Lyte | Fallen Comrades |
| Aces High | Goodwin | Battle of Britain |
| Aida | Verdi | Tel-el-kebir |
| Alamein (El) | Stanley | Alamein-March |
| All Through the Night | Annon | Welsh Folk Song |
| Alma | Price | |
| Amazing Grace | hymn/Pipes and Drums | |
| Anchors Away | Miles/Zimmerman | US Navy |
| Army Goes Rolling Along | Gruber/Sousa/Arberg | Caissons /US Army |
| Auld Lange Syne | Burns | Remembrance |
| Balaklava | Unknown | Balaklava-The charge of the Light Brigade 1854 |
| Battle Cry of Freedom | Root | |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | Howe/Steffe | US Civil War |
| Battle of Britain | Goodwin | Battle of Britain-RAF |
| Battle of the Somme | Unknown | Somme WW1 |
| Blaze Away | Holtzman | Manila Bay |
| Blue Bomnnets o’er the Border | Scott | Piper Laidlaw |
| Bluebells of Scotland | Traditional | Folk Song-Tenting Song |
| Bonnie Blue Flag | Macarthy | US Civil War Song |
| Bonnie Dundee | Scott | Bonnie Prince Charley |
| Black Horse Troop | Sousa | US Cavalry March |
| Boots and Saddles | Brigham | |
| British Grenadiers | Traditional | British/Canadian Regimental March |
| By Land and Sea | Alford | Slow march |
| Cavalry of the Steepes | Knipper | The French Revolution |
| Celer Paratus Callidus | Pando | Canadian Mobile Command |
| Children of The Regiment | Fucik | Military March |
| Coburg March | Haydn/Albert | Slow march |
| Cock of The Nort | Uknown Pipe Music | Tirah Campaign |
| Cockleshell Heros | Dunn | Movie /Special Service Britain |
| Colditz March | Farnon | Castle Escape |
| Colonel Bogey | Alford | Traditional Military March |
| The Dam Busters | Coates | WW2 Raids on The Mohnesee |
| Dixie’s Land | Emmett | American Civil War |
| Dixie, Land of Cotton | Hughes/Hewitt | General Robert E Lee |
| Dumbarton’s Drums | Unknown | Many Regiments |
| El Capitan | Sousa | US Military march |
| Eternal Father | Whiting/Dykes | The Naval Hymn |
| Fare Thee Well Inniskilling | Lever/Adams | Spanish Civil War |
| Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch | Henrion | Battle of Fehrbellinger 1675 |
| Garb of Old Gaul | Reid/Brakin | Slow March |
| Going Home | Dvorak | Symphonic/Pipes/ |
| Golden Spurs | Rhodes | Slow March-Britain |
| Graf Zeppelin March | Teike | Lighter Than Air/Aircraft |
| Great Escape ( The) | Bernstein | WW2 Escape |
| Great Little Army | Alford | WW1 march |
| Hail to The Chief | Scott/sanderson | US Presidential Greeting March |
| Hands Across The Sea | Sousa | Spanish American War 1898 |
| Heart of Oak | Boyce/Garrick | Traditional Naval march |
| Here’s a Health unto her Majesty | Barrow | Medical Corps march-UK/Canada |
| High Flight | Magee | Poem with Airman’s Prayer |
| Highland Laddie | Burns | Traditional Pipesand Mil band |
| Hoch and Deutschmeister | Ertl | Regiment of Same name |
| Imjim River | Gossip | Korean War |
| Imperial Echoes | Safroni-Middleton | BBC-WW2 |
| Invincible Eagle | Sousa | US Military march |
| Jack Tar | Sousa | US navy WW1 |
| King Cotton | Sousa | Military march |
| Koniggrater March | Piefke | Austro/Prussian War 1866 |
| Land of Hope and Glory | Elgar | Traditional -British Patriotic Song |
| Last Post | Traditional | Trumpet Call Remembrance |
| Let Erin Remember | Bunting/Moore | Irish Patriotic |
| Liberty Bell | Sousa | American Patriotic |
| Loch Lomand | Traditional | Cartisle 1745 |
| March Lorraine | Ganne | French March |
| March Militarie | Shubert | Military March |
| Marching Through Georgia | Sherman’s March to the Sea | |
| Marine Corps Hymn(US) | Unknown | US Marines |
| Men of Action | Heming | Military march |
| Men of Harlech | Regimental march/Britian/Canada | |
| Minstrel Boy | Moore | Irish Patriotic Music |
| Mountbatten March | Dunn | Dedicated to Lord Mountbatten |
| National Emblem | Bagley | Patriotic March |
| New Colonial March | Hall | Military Street March |
| Nibelungen | R. Wagner | Concert March |
| Nijmegen march | Kimberley | WW2 |
| Old Panama | Alford | Military march re Panama Canal |
| On the Quarter Deck | Alford | Naval march |
| Orb and Septre | Walton | British Royalty |
| Over There | Cohan | US Army WW1 |
| Pathfinders | Lockyear | WW2 Aircraft |
| Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu | Scott/Hummell | Inverlochy 1431 |
| Post Horn Galop | Koenig | Musical “special” for post horn |
| Preobrajensky March | Donajowski | Czarist March/UK Marines |
| Prussen Gloria March | Austrian-German Military march | |
| Radetsky March | Strauss Sr. | Austrian Army in Italy 1848 |
| Ride of the Valkeries | Wagner | British parachute Regiments |
| Road to The Iles | Popular Pipes March | |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | Sousa | The Boxer Rebellion |
| Rule Britannia | Arne/Augustine | British Naval and Patriotic Song |
| Sabres and Spurs | Sousa | US Cavalry March |
| Sambre et Meuse | Cezino | French Military march |
| Scotland the Brave | Traditional | Numerous Regiments |
| Scottish Soldier | Traditional | Patriotic Song |
| Screw Guns | Kipling | Artillery /Regimental Song |
| Semper Fidelis | Sousa | US Marines |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Unknown | US Cavalry |
| Sink The Bismark | Parker | WW2 /Naval Encounter |
| Soldiers of the Queen | Stuart | Boer War |
| Soldier’s Chorus | Gounod | Opera |
| Sons of the Brave | Bidgood | Military march |
| Standard of St George | Alford | British Military march |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Sousa | US March and Patriotic Song |
| Stedfast and True | Tieke | German patriotic March |
| Sunset | Traditional | Ceremony |
| Sussex by the Sea | Ward-Higgs | British Regiment 14/21 Sussex |
| Taps | Butterfield | US Trumpet Call |
| (The)Thin Red Line | Alford | Balaclava |
| Thunderer | Sousa | Military March |
| Trafalgar | Zehle | The Battle Thereof |
| Under The Double Eagle | JF Wagner | Austria |
| Under The White Ensign | Dunn | Royal Navy |
| US Air Force march-Wild Blue Yonder | Crawford | US Official March |
| Vanished Army | Alford | WW1 1918-Poetic March |
| Village Blacksmith | Longfellow/Weiss | Ordnance Corp Canada |
| Vimy Ridge | Bidgood | 1917-Battle-WW1 |
| Viscount Nelson | Zehle | Admiral Nelson |
| Voice of the Guns | Alford | WW1 |
| Volga Boat Song | Russian Traditional | Battle of Leningrad WW2 |
| Wait For the Wagon | Knaff/Buckley | Service Corps |
| Waltzing Matilda | Paterson | Australian Patriotic Song |
| When Johnny Comes Marching Home | Gilmore | US Civil War Song-March |
| When The Saints Go Marching In | Black/Purvis | Song of Hope |
| With Sword and Lance | Starke | Military march |
| Yankee Doodle | American Revolution 1792 | |
| Ye Banks and Braes | Burns and Miller | Scottish Traditional |
| Yellow Rose of Texas | Unknown | Frontier Soldiers Song |
| Zachmi Dil(Wounded Heart) | NW Frontier |


