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The use of music at sporting events is a practice that is thousands of years old, but has recently had a resurgence as a noted phenomenon. Some sports have specific traditions with respect to pieces of music played at particular intervals. Others have made the presentation of music very specific to the team—even to particular players. Music may be used to build the energy of the fans, and music may also be introduced in ways that are less directly connected with the action in a sporting event.
The University of Alabama is a school with many traditions. This article describes several of these traditions.
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"Tribute to Troy" is an epic fanfare most frequently associated with the University of Southern California (USC), whose fans use it as a fight song. It was composed in 1965 by Ronald Broadwell, the director of USC's Spirit of Troy marching band. Variously described as "an incessant stanza of pounding drums and blaring horns," and "reminiscent of rallying the citizenry to guard the perimeter of the ancient Troy city-state," it is traditionally performed at USC Trojan football games following each USC defensive stop. A count in 2011 found that the song was played nearly 600 times over the course of that year's football season.
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- ↑ Menard, Drew (August 3, 2018). "Professor helped grow Liberty's top-notch music school over past 30 years".
- ↑ "Fight Song Lyrics." fightsonglyrics.com. Retrieved on October 25, 2008.