1st Edition
Brass Roots A Hundred Years of Brass Bands and Their Music, 1836-1936
By Roy Newsome
Copyright 1998
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book was originally published in 1998. For most of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century, the brass band was a major feature of musical life in Britain. This book surveys the hundred years from 1836 in which bands flourished, examining their origins in the village bands of the nineteenth century, the culture of banding competitions that developed and the manner in which... Read more
Introduction. 1. Music in Nineteenth-Century Brtain. 2. Wind Instruments and the Growth of the Amateur Band. 3. Contests from 1860; the 'Great Triumvirate', J. H. Iles. 4. Unpublished Nineteenth-Century Brass Band Music and the Development of Instrumentation. 5. Published Brass Band Music in the Nineteenth Century. 6. Into the Twentieth Century: The National Brass Band Championships. 7. Principal Arranger/Composers and their Music. 8. Popular Band Music in the Twentieth Century. 9. A New Type of Test Piece: The Original Work. 10. Retrospect.
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