JANISSARY MUSIC
A type of late eighteenth-century band music that used some of the percussion instruments employed by the military band of the Janissary, the life guards of the Sultan of Turkey. Among these instruments were the triangle, cymbals, bass drum, and Turkish crescent. Their sound, considered very exotic, became quite fashionable in Europe about 1780 and was imitated by serious composers.
JANISSARY COMPANY.
Meheter, the oldest marching band in the world.
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