Trevor Herbert, Helen Barlow

Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-century, it has been almost totally overlooked by music historians. Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century however, shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life. Beginning with a discussion of the place of the military in civilian and social life, authors Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow plot the story of military music from its sponsorship by military officers to its role as an expression of imperial force, which it took on by the end of the nineteenth century. Herbert and Barlow organize their study around three themes: the use of military status to extend musical patronage by the officer class; the influence of the military on the civilian music establishments; and an incremental movement towards central control of military music making by governments throughout the world. In so doing, they show that military music impacted everything from the configuration of the music profession in the major metropolitan centers, to the development of wind instruments throughout the century, to the emergence of organized amateur music making. A much needed addition to the scholarship on nineteenth century music, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century is an essential reference for music, cultural and military historians, the social history of music and nineteenth century studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199898329
• Artikelnr.: 39056629

Autorenporträt

Trevor Herbert was born in south Wales. He played trombone with many leading London orchestras and chamber and period instrument groups before joining the staff of the Open University, where he is now Professor of Music. He has published prolifically on the history, repertoire and performance cultures of brass instruments. He is also the author of numerous articles for the world's leading reference works. Helen Barlow was born in India and grew up in south Wales. She is a Research Fellow in Music at the Open University (UK), and her work focuses on literature and iconography as sources for music history. In addition to her published papers, she has written entries for several major reference works including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Historical preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Trumpets, drums and fifes
* Chapter 2 Bands of musick
* Chapter 3 Soldiers and musicians
* Chapter 4 Musical identities and infrastructures 1770-1857
* Chapter 5 Military music in the British provinces 1770-1840
* Chapter 6 Recruitment, training and the Kneller Hall project
* Chapter 7 Amateurs, brass bands and the 1859 Rifle Volunteers
* Chapter 8 Concerted performances and instrumentation
* Chapter 9 Military culture, the music profession and the question of
status
* Chapter 10 Ritual, performance style and musical patriotism
* Chapter 11 The empire and other foreign fields
* Appendix 1 Regulations, standing orders and circular memoranda, etc.,
addressing
* music
* Appendix 2 Printed (Harmonie) repertoire for bands of music, c.1800,
an indicative
* list
* Appendix 3 The Duke of Cumberland's Band Archive
* Appendix 4 Indicative list of band instrumentations in the late
eighteenth and
* nineteenth centuries
* Appendix 5 The objects of the Military School of Music
* Bibliography