eric coates wrote the music for the dambusters march.
eric coates wrote the music for the dambusters march.
who wrote the music for the dambusters march?
eric coates
the dam busters









































the dam busters may refer to:









































bullet::::- operation chastise, an attack by the raf on german dams in world war ii.









































bullet::::- no. 617 squadron raf, the royal air force squadron who carried out operation chastise.









































bullet::::- "the dam busters" (book), a 1951 book by paul brickhill about operation chastise.









































bullet::::- "the dam busters" (film), a 1955 film about operation chastise, based on paul brickhill's eponymous 1951 book









































bullet::::- "dambusters march", the theme to the "dambusters" film by british composer eric coates.









































bullet::::- "the dam busters" (video game), a 1984 video game loosely based on operation chastise.
the dam busters
ron goodwin's score opens with the "luftwaffe march", later retitled "aces high", in the style of a traditional german military march in 6/8 time. the march places heavy emphasis on the "oom-pah" sound of tubas and lower-pitched horns on the first and second beats and has the glockenspiel double the horns in the melody. because of the great length of this sequence, which shows a luftwaffe general's inspection of a heinkel squadron in occupied france, the "aces high" has three separate bridges between choruses of the main theme, one of which recurs several times in a gently sentimental variation. despite its origin in a representation of a tyrannical threat to democracy, the march has become a popular british march tune, like the "dambusters march"; an adaptation was first played by a british military band in 1974 by the corps of drums of the royal pioneer corps and is now frequently played at military parades and by marching bands in northern ireland. american radio personality and convicted watergate conspirator g. gordon liddy has used the march as bumper music on his syndicated radio programme.
battle of britain (film)