The Vietnam war produced a hit song in 1966, "Ballad of the Green Berets" which has a martial rhythm.
Musical features include relentless martial rhythm and dark, non-diatonic harmonic support.
The piece is called "heroic" because of the martial rhythms and fanfares of the first movement.
It's Wagnerian, with white martial rhythm.
Instinctively the workmen formed in orderly ranks and fell into martial rhythms as they marched past the place where the Buddhist priest stood.
The soundtrack responds with martial rhythms signaling a national dynamo barreling forward.
They stomped and slapped their boots in a martial rhythm, and chanted this ditty: Get bazookas!
He clanked away, his magnetic shoe-soles beating out a singularly martial rhythm.
The song "Secha (Slashing)" begins with sounds like a battle, horses galoping, axes, screams, and a martial rhythm.
He has devised an ingenious system for representing the battles, in which the opposing sides beat out martial rhythms on oil cans and plastic containers.