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==Origin==
Anglo-Norman and Middle French ''pompe'' (French ''pompe'' ) splendid display (c1165 in Old French), [[vanities]] of the world (c1350; a [[solemn]] [[procession]] (a1502) and its etymon classical [[Latin]] ''pompa'' ceremonial [[procession]], ostentation, display < ancient [[Greek]] πομπή a sending away, solemn procession, parade, display < πέμπειν to send, of [[unknown]] origin.
==Definitions==
*1: a show of [[magnificence]] : splendor <every day begins … in a pomp of flaming [[colors]] — F. D. Ommanney>
*2: a [[ceremonial]] or festival display (as a train of followers or a pageant)
*3a : ostentatious display : vainglory
==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 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]:
:[[Farewell]] the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
:The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
:The royal banner, and all [[quality]],
:[[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
:Like a [[proud]] [[music]] that draws men on to die
:Madly upon the spears in martial [[ecstasy]],
:A [[measure]] that sets [[heaven]] in all their veins
::And iron in their hands.
:I hear the [[Nation]] march
:Beneath her ensign as an eagle's wing;
:O'er shield and sheeted targe
:The banners of my [[faith]] most gaily swing;
:Moving to [[victory]] with [[solemn]] [[noise]],
: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]
==See also==
*'''''[[Procession]]'''''
[[Category: Theatre]]
==Origin==
Anglo-Norman and Middle French ''pompe'' (French ''pompe'' ) splendid display (c1165 in Old French), [[vanities]] of the world (c1350; a [[solemn]] [[procession]] (a1502) and its etymon classical [[Latin]] ''pompa'' ceremonial [[procession]], ostentation, display < ancient [[Greek]] πομπή a sending away, solemn procession, parade, display < πέμπειν to send, of [[unknown]] origin.
==Definitions==
*1: a show of [[magnificence]] : splendor <every day begins … in a pomp of flaming [[colors]] — F. D. Ommanney>
*2: a [[ceremonial]] or festival display (as a train of followers or a pageant)
*3a : ostentatious display : vainglory
==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 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]:
:[[Farewell]] the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
:The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
:The royal banner, and all [[quality]],
:[[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
:Like a [[proud]] [[music]] that draws men on to die
:Madly upon the spears in martial [[ecstasy]],
:A [[measure]] that sets [[heaven]] in all their veins
::And iron in their hands.
:I hear the [[Nation]] march
:Beneath her ensign as an eagle's wing;
:O'er shield and sheeted targe
:The banners of my [[faith]] most gaily swing;
:Moving to [[victory]] with [[solemn]] [[noise]],
: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]
==See also==
*'''''[[Procession]]'''''
[[Category: Theatre]]
