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The march and the earlier quick-step were used in the late nineteenth
century to accompany both social dancing and parade marching. Nevertheless,
the toe tapping rhythms of the piano versions so popular at the time were
more frequently written for parlor or concert performance. The bravura
march in ABA form with a lyrical "trio" as the center section was a
showpiece composition. John Philip Sousa, Victor Herbert, and others
contributed many rousing examples of the genre such as the immortal
"Stars and Stripes Forever". The piano marches of E.T. Paull are distinguished
by their extraordinarily colorful covers.
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