found: Schwandt, Erich, and Andrew Lamb. "March;" accessed via Grove Music Online, July 9, 2020(March: Music with strong repetitive rhythms and an uncomplicated style usually used to accompany orderly military movements and processions. Since the 16th century, functional march music has existed alongside stylized representations of the march, which were often incorporated for programmatic purposes into art music. The distinction between the functional and the stylized march is often blurred, however: in the 18th century, functional marches were frequently imported virtually unchanged into wind-band music, often forming integral movements of serenades or divertimentos. During the 19th century, the functional military march declined, and the stylized march became popular in its own right, reaching its height in the works of the later Romantic composers. After World War I, the idea of using an orchestral or choral march as a vehicle for paying homage to rulers and celebrating nations and ideals, which had prevailed since the time of Lully, fell into decline, and the march came to be seen principally as an art-music genre)
