Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century

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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

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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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