MARCH (OE_ Fr. marche, from (loth.. 0)1(1. markt/. (49% .11ftrk, AS. la ea cc, border: connected with Lat. ;nary°, Dlr. brit, Welsh, Corn. bro, Av. boundary). A ternt applied in Eng land during the early Middle Ages and later to the frontier or border line between England and Wales and between England and Scotland. In Anglo-Suxou times the word appears under the form Merida as the name of the most western of the English kingdoms. See 'MARK.
In Scotland the word Caine into CO113111011 use to designnte the boundaries of real property, corre sponding to 1114. EuLdish term boundary (q.v.).
MARCH, irdIrk (Lat. sFfarzt.e, Slay. lforara). March, irdIrk (Lat. sFfarzt.e, Slay. lforara). .\ tributary of the Danube and the principal river of Moravia (Map: Austria. E 2). If rises in the Sudetie :Mountains on the boundary of Silesia, and runs southward, forming in its lower course the boundary between Austria and Hun gary, and entering the Danube 20 miles east of Vienna, after a course of about 217 miles, for the last 80 of which it is navigable. See MARCH (Fr. marehc, from marcher, to walk, March (Fr. marehc, from marcher, to walk, march, probably from OP., Fr. mnrchc,Loundrry or possibly front Lat. marcus, hammer; connected with Skt. mar, to grind, on account of the beat of the feet 1. A musical composition having primarily for its object to regulate the steps of a large number of persons in motion. Even in remote antiquity, solemn processions were al ways accompanied by nmsie. In the Greek tragedy the entrance as well as the exit of the chorus was so accompanied. The military march undoubtedly was developed from soldiers' songs. The ordinary march used for parades, drills, etc., has about 75 steps to the minute, the quick-step about 100, and the double quick or charge about 120. The march as an art form was developed from the dance forms during the seventeenth cen tury. Lully in his operas and F. Couperin in his piano works established the march form as con sisting of two reprises of eight or sixteen Incas tires. To this was added, somewhat later, a por tion distinguished by repose and broad melodic outline, generally in a closely related key. This was called the trio, because at first it was in three-part writing as against the two-part writ ing of the first section. After the trio the first section is repeated. To-day the art form of the march is highly developed and employed on vari ous occasions. A special kind of march is the funeral march. It is written in very !dnw time (grave, lento, adagio), and always in the minor mode. The trio is in the relative or correspond
ing major. Beethoven's great funeral march in the Eroiea Symphony is in C minor with trio in C' major; Chopin's funeral march in the Sonata op. 35 is in B fiat minor with trio in D flat major.
MARCH, AustAs ( ?-e.1458). A Catalan poet. March, AustAs ( ?-e.1458). A Catalan poet. horn in Valencia, probably before the end of the fourteenth century. lie was admired and praised not only by his fellow citizens in Catalonia, but also by noted Spanish authors. in March's chief works, the rants d'amor and the Cants de most, he is visibly under the influence of Petrarch, as are so many of his contemporaries. He avoided all close imitation, however, and may safely Atand on his own merits. Liveliness of fancy and genuine ness of sentiment are among his best traits; his chief defect is a certain obscurity of expression. Consult the edition of his poems by Pelayo y Britz Barcelona. 1864), and that of Barcelona, 1888. neither of them a good reproduction of the six teenth century editions; J. Rubio y Ors, usias March y sat i'poca (Barcelona, 1862) : A. Pages, "Documents in6dits relatifs it In vie d'Ausias March," in the Romania, vol. xvii. (Paris, l888).
MARCH, FrtAxels .ANDREW ( 1825— ). An March, FrtAxels .ANDREW ( 1825— ). An American philologist and author, horn at Mill bury, Mass. Ile graduated in 1845 at Amherst, where he was tutor in 1847-49, and, after study ing law in New York, was in 1850 admitted to the bar. Having taught at Fredericksburg. Va., from 1852 to 1855, he was appointed tutor in Lafayette College in the latter year, and in 1858 became professor of the English language and comparative philology. In 1873 he was elected president of the American Philological .Associa tion, and in 1891 succeeded dames Russell Lowell as president of the Modern Language Association of America. Foreign societies have honored him with various distinctions; and in 1879 he was chosen to he the bead of the American staff of A New English Dictionary on. Historical Princi ples, prepared under the direction of the Philo logical Society of London. 11 is publications in clude: A die/had of Philosophical Study of the English Lanywlye nglo-Sa.roa Reader ( 1870 ) ; and Compamtire Grammar of the .4n glo-Saxon Language (1870). Ile also edited a series of text-books of Greek and Latin authors, and was consulting editor of the Standard Dic tionary ( 1890-94).