Title Music & the British military in the long nineteenth century / Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Historical preface -- Introduction -- 1. Trumpets, drums and fifes -- 2. Bands of music -- 3. Soldiers and musicians -- 4. Musical identities and infrastructures 1770�1857 -- 5. Military music in the provinces 1770�1840 -- 6. Recruitment, training and the Kneller Hall project -- 7. Amateurs, brass bands and the 1859 Rifle Volunteers -- 8. Later musical idioms -- 9. Military culture, the music profession and the question of status -- 10. Ritual, performance style and musical patriotism 11. The empire and other foreign fieldsAppendix 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q Rs -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z Summary This study examines the relationship between the British military as a sponsor of music and musicians within wider aspects of music history during the nineteenth century. While the focus is on Britain, it also deals directly or by implication with other European countries and the USA. Throughout the period the military was by far the largest employer of musicians and generator of the most widely dispersed musical networks. Consequently it was essential to the commercial infrastructures of music Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Great Britain. Army -- Songs and music -- History and criticism SUBJECT Great Britain. Army fast Subject Military music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism Military music -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- History and criticism MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Military & Marches. Military music Armed Forces -- Songs and music Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Barlow, Helen, 1967- ISBN 9780199898329 0199898324 9780199345526 019934552X

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