I'm not sure where to share this so I thought this category would be a good place to put it. Just recently I was doing some research on the first world war and my search brought me to discover what I believe is some of the best music that represents the war as a whole. Something just about the consistent musical elements in these just make me instantly think of the first world war. Take a listen.
Thanks. In response here are some contemporary works Ernest Farrar was an officer in the British Grenadier Guards hisHeroic Elegy, Op.36 (1918) (for soldiers was forst performned in July 1918. He was killed in September 1918 Ralph Vaughan William's Pastoral Symphony is regarded as one of his musical responses to the War It's really wartime music - a great deal of it incubated when I used to go up night after night with the ambulance wagon at Ecoivres and we went up a steep hill and there was a wonderful Corot-like landscape in the sunset - it's not really lambkins frisking at all as most people take for granted". The most memorable and evocative music from the First World War are the popular songs and soldier's parodies of hymns. I think you might recognise this tune... This is a playlist from Oh What a Lovely War, drawing on popular songs from the First World War and soldier's parodies of hymns. . The French Chanson de Craonne was banned in France until the 1970s This is probably the best known German song - in Germany that is.
Here are some of my favourite modern tributes You may recognise the tune as the theme from the miniseries "Band of Brothers." It is Amici Forever "Requiem for a soldier" performed by the Australian Army. I captured the video on July 4th, 2018 at the centenary commemorations for the Battle of Hamel - a lesser known American Battle, where Doughboys served in the ranks of the Australian Army Corps. Australian Eric Bogle Motorhead Bryan Adams You have to listen carefully to the lyrics...
