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ORIENT AL INFLUENCES ON OCCIDENT AL MILITARY MUSIC "THE introduction of the drum into Europe has frequently been attributed to the Moors, who are said to have brought it from the East with other musical instruments.
I. THE SARACENIC INFLUENCE THE word Saracen is admittedly inapt, but such was the term given to Islamic peoples by Christian Europe during the Middle Ages, and it is used here to cover both the Arabo-Turkish polity with which the Crusaders came in contact in the East,.
· Not only were these instruments adopted by the armies of the Cru• saders as well as the tactical use of the military band, but even the alloca• tion of particular types of instruments and a stipulated number together with a specified performance of music, were allotted to high officers accord• ing to rank, as had been the custom in the Saracenic armies.
To fully appreciate what Turkish military was like at this period I must again refer the reader to my article on the Tabl_ khana in the Ency• clopcedia of Islam.
In the nature of things it was through the Balkans that much of this" influence" came to Western Europe, where many instruments of military still carry evidence of their Turkish origin in their names, as exemplified in the daule (Alban.
;ortant was the Turkish influence on European military music in the e:~!y years of the eighteenth ( =twelfth A.
For over a century, the percussion instruments of this Janissary music remained a special feature of European military bands.