Trevor Herbert (ed.)

The British Brass Band

A Musical and Social History
Herausgeber: Herbert, Trevor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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This is the definitive study of the history and music of the traditional British brass band. It explores the origins of the brass band, its unique and exclusive world, and its relevance for wider spheres of music and social history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780198166986
• ISBN-10: 0198166982
• Artikelnr.: 21363439

Inhaltsangabe

* 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