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==Description==
==Description==
The "'''Pomp''' and Circumstance Marches" (full title "Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches"), Op. 39 are a series of marches for [[orchestra]] composed by Sir [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar Edward Elgar].
The "'''Pomp''' and Circumstance Marches" (full title "Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches"), Op. 39 are a series of marches for [[orchestra]] composed by Sir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar Edward Elgar].
*The title
*The title
The title is taken from Act III, Scene III of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Shakespeare]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello Othello]:
The title is taken from Act III, Scene III of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Shakespeare]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello Othello]:
:[[Farewell]] the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
:[[Farewell]] the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
:[[Pride]], pomp, and circumstance of [[glorious]] [[war]]!"
:[[Pride]], pomp, and circumstance of [[glorious]] [[war]]!"
But also, on the score of the first march, Elgar set as a motto for the whole set of marches a verse from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warren,_3rd_Baron_de_Tabley Lord de Tabley]'s poem ''The March of Glory'' which begins
But also, on the score of the first march, Elgar set as a motto for the whole set of marches a verse from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warren,_3rd_Baron_de_Tabley Lord de Tabley]'s poem ''The March of Glory'' which begins
:Like a [[proud]] [[music]] that draws men on to die
:Like a [[proud]] [[music]] that draws men on to die
:With [[worship]] and with [[conquest]], and the [[voice]] of myriads.
:With [[worship]] and with [[conquest]], and the [[voice]] of myriads.
proclaiming the "shows of things": the [[naïve]] [[assumption]] that the splendid show of [[military]] pageantry –"Pomp"– has no [[connection]] with the drabness and [[terror]] —"Circumstance"— of actual warfare. The first four marches were all written before the [[events]] of [[World War I]] shattered that [[belief]], and the styles in which wars were written about spurned the false [[romance]] of the [[battle]]-[[song]]. Elgar understood this.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomp_and_Circumstance_Marches]
proclaiming the "shows of things": the [[naïve]] [[assumption]] that the splendid show of [[military]] pageantry –"Pomp"– has no [[connection]] with the drabness and [[terror]] —"Circumstance"— of actual warfare. The first four marches were all written before the [[events]] of [[World War I]] shattered that [[belief]], and the styles in which wars were written about spurned the false [[romance]] of the [[battle]]-[[song]]. Elgar understood this.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomp_and_Circumstance_Marches]
==See also==
==See also==
*'''''[[Procession]]'''''
*'''''[[Procession]]'''''
[[Category: Theatre]]
[[Category: Theatre]]