The British Brass Band
A Musical and Social History
Published on 8. June 2000
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-19-816698-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 * Bram Gay, Times Literary Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, 14 music examples
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
798 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-816698-6 (9780198166986)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
06/1991
Open University Press
€69.52
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Content
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