With their stiff, martial tunes and trite, fill-in-the-blank lyrics, they reduce complicated, passionate people to dull abstractions.

Ply your bassoon and your cracked fiddle, till the hills echo and reëcho with the martial tune.

He asked him to give the song a martial tune that would not put people to sleep but awaken those who were sleeping.

More balloons were released, and the band played another rousing martial tune.

A joyful, martial tune like the song of a victorious army.

One recent spring morning before work, a group of amateurs practiced wushu, snapping fans in rhythm with a martial tune.

The music; heart-stirring martial tunes, came faint over the park's grassland, and the big drums punched the warm air like cannon fire.

A stirring martial tune.

Despite all the new materialism, Sudan still marches to a martial tune.

If Hancock had been fond of martial tunes, the horse might have been named Quantico or Dress Blues.