The Pipe, the Drum and the Thunder Run: Music & War
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:53:54
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Piece Description
On Episode 3 of The Nerve, host Jowi Taylor surveys the entwined histories of war and music. Military music is meant to stir the blood. In order to achieve this, some instruments, some compositions, some sounds are more favoured than others. The Israelites used trumpets to bring down the walls of Jericho. Coppola's Apocalypse Now helicopters played Ride of the Valkyries, which was based on an actual practice used during the Vietnam War - and is used today as part of the "Thunder Run" strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Scots went to war with bagpipes. And every army has a band. And music can also be an instrument of torture, as happens today, when the U.S. Army uses music to "forcibly interrogate" its prisoners.
From pipes, to drums, to thunder runs, The Nerve 3 takes a serious look at the dark side of music.
Broadcast History
This piece, the third of six, was first broadcast on The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in September 2008.
Timing and Cues
Piece is 53:54
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Nerve Opening theme | Paolo Pietropaolo | unreleased. | 01:30 | ||
| The Ride of the Valkyries | conductor: Sir Georg Solti; orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic | Wagner: Favourite Overtures. | Decca | 04:55 | |
| Preobrajensky March | The Leningrad Military District Headquarters Band | 00:20 | |||
| Saeta | Miles Davis | Sketches of Spain. | 03:30 | ||
| Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets | Charles Dutoit & Orch. Symph. de Montréal | Decca | 05:00 | ||
| Highway to Hell | AC/DC | Highway to Hell. | 01:30 | ||
| Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American) | Toby Keith | Unleashed. | 01:20 | ||
| Lili Marlene | Lale Andersen | 00:30 | |||
| Elmer’s Tune | Charlie and his Orchestra | 01:55 | |||
| German Submarines | Charlie and his Orchestra | 01:50 | |||
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | U2 | War. | 01:30 | ||
| Peace on Earth | U2 | All That You Can’t Leave Behind. | 03:20 | ||
| We Hate Terrorists | Nick Brown & JR Schultz | Iraq Unplugged. | 01:55 | ||
| Seek and Destroy | Metallica | Kill ‘em All. | 00:50 | ||
| X Gon’ Give it to Ya | DMX | X Gon’ Give it to Ya. | 00:35 | ||
| When You Told Me You Loved Me | Jessica Simpson | Irresistible. | 01:30 | ||
| Tourette’s | Nirvana | In Utero. | 01:30 | ||
| The Flowers of the Forest | Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | The Flower of Scotland. | 02:45 | ||
| The Nerve: Closing Theme | Paolo Pietropaolo | unreleased. | 00:00 |
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