Exploring The Standard Benchmark for International Marching Band Contest

Abstract

       The purposes of this research were to study 1) to study the criteria Judging of the International Marching Band Contest and 2) for presentation Guidelines for judging criteria Marching Band Contest at the international level, informants are the judges of judging the international competition of 7 people from 3 continents, including America, Europe and Asia. The tools used in the research are in-depth interview and statistics used in Analyzing data such as Likert Scale. The findings revealed as follows: The criteria for judging the marching band competition at the international level of the marching band focuses on the regulation of the rows and the instrumentation for good sound quality. The level of scoring consists of three important elements, the overall performance (Overall Effect), the sound quality of the instruments (Music) and the appearance to the audiences (Visual). The guidelines of the judgement which is based on the surveys, found that the 3 main important points are: 1) the sound quality of the instruments (Music) 2) the basic skills of the players 3) the details of each competition criteria.