Music Branch (Canadian Forces)
The Music Branch is a personnel branch of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). It is primarily composed of band musicians, and also deals with the selection and musical training of its recruits. The branch encompasses all the military bands in service in the Canadian Armed Forces. It is roughly the equivalent to the British Army's Royal Corps of Army Music (CAMUS).
Badge of the Music Branch
The Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders is one of many voluntary pipe and drum bands administered by the Music Branch of the CF.
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces. A typical military band consists mostly of wind and percussion instruments. The conductor of a band commonly bears the title of bandmaster or music director. Ottoman military bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching bands in the world, dating from the 13th century.
A massed group of military bands from several countries at the 2011 Berlin Military Tattoo
Depiction of the Ottoman military band in 1720. The notion of a military band originates from the Ottomans.
A Tajik military band with Karnays at a military tattoo at Zhurihe Training Base in China, 2014.
Cameroonian and American military band members in Douala, March 2015
