Precision (march)

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"Precision" is the authorized march of Royal Military College of Canada. It was composed in 1932 by Denise Chabot, wife of Major C. A. Chabot, a Royal Canadian Artillery officer on staff as professor of French at the College at the time. She earned the degree of Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music and was the president of the Kingston Music Club.

‘Precision’ was inspired by "Madelon", one of the popular marching songs sung and whistled by the cadets marching on their way to the Riding School, and the favourite song of the Class of 1932. Mme Chabot improvised a variation on the song, to represent the cadence of the cadets on the march. The composition starts, “We are the gentlemen cadets of RMC We have sworn to love and serve Her Majesty…”

The as-yet untitled composition was presented to RMC in the spring of 1932; it was orchestrated for military band by Captain F. W. Coleman of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. It was used as the theme music for "Precision", an Associated Screen News film of the cadets in training; Mme Chabot found the name fitting and in 1933 called her composition by the same title.

Mme Chabot composed ‘Precision’ for RMC, the official march of Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, a waltz, and a tango.

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Authorized marches of the Canadian Forces

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