He saw the gates at the far end swing open, heard horns, the high, piercing sound of flutes, then cymbals and martial drums as the dancers and performers led the chariots into the Hippodrome.

At last there came a great yelling of trumpets and beating of martial drums from the gallery above us and through a door came the king.

The song contains horns and martial drums as Knowles sings, "We gon' take it to the moon/ Take it to the stars."

The arrangements favor exotic harpsichord-like textures and slogging martial drums.

Instrumentally, the song is completed with synthesizers, martial drums and horns.

Huge, reverberating swells were backed by martial drums, all confident and larger than life: the sound of British rock reclaiming grand, bygone ambitions.

The gray militancy of this music, thick with martial drums and percussion, poses problems that the late chamber music seems to solve.

As she led the procession from the Grand Hall, chatting with Luan and Pelivar, thunder rolled overhead like martial drums beating the march for Tarmon Gai'don.

Sooner or later, however, it swells with glowering late-Romantic strings, Teutonic martial drums and the fanfaring horns that have always signaled "historial epic."

Idolator's Carl Williot described how on this stripped version, "gone is Minaj, gone are the piano plinks and gone are the martial drums" completely changing the composition of the Bluelight version.