The British Brass Band
A Musical and Social History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 June 2000
- ISBN 9780198166986
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 242x161x26 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, 14 music examples 0
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Short description:
This is the definitive study of the history and music of the traditional British Brass Band. It explores the origins of the brass band, in its unique and exclusive world, whilst demonstrating its relevance to the wider spheres of music and social history.
MoreLong description:
The British Brass Band is based on an earlier volume, Bands, published by Open University Press (1991) as part of its Popular Music in Britain Series. It was hailed as the most detailed and scholarly treatment of its subject. For the present volume, the original chapters have been heavily revised and an additional three chapters added, together with new and extensive appendices, numerous illustrations, a bibliography, and a new introduction. The new material includes studies on brass band repertoire, performance practices, and the bands of the Salvation Army. The contributors are the pre-eminent authorities on the subject.
The work as a whole can be taken as a study of both a unique (and often misunderstood) aspect of British music, and its interaction with broader spheres of social and cultural history. It is the most detailed and definitive study of the subject.
This book, surely, is essential reading for all those who take a serious interest in this branch of music-making ... Here at last we have a history, as complete as human endeavour can make, of the birth, development, organization and repertoire of the brass band in the British sense of the term
Table of Contents:
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Nineteenth-Century Bands: Making a Movement
'What's Wrong with Brass Bands?': Cultural Change and the Band Movement, 1918- c.1964
The Musical Revolution of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: From 'repeat and twiddle' to 'precision and snap'
Instruments and Instrumentation of British Brass Bands
God's Perfect Minstrels: The Bands of the Salvation Army
The Brass Band in the Antipodes: Original Compositions for the British Popular Culture
Building a Repertoire: Original Compositions for the British Brass Band (1913-98)
Aspects of Performance Techniques: The Brass Band and its Influence on Other Brass-Playing
Appendix 1. Prices of Brass Band Instruments
Appendix 2. The Salvation Army
Appendix 3. Contest Rules
Appendix 4. Enderby Jackson's Crystal Palace Contests
Appendex 5. Open and National Championship Results
A Note on Discographies and Recordings
Select Bibliography
Index
