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Victorian brass bands: class, taste, and space
No full textConsiders the phenomenon of the brass band from geographic and sociological perspectives. In late–20th-c. Britain, brass bands are often associated with nostalgic visions of class, time, and region, but they were in fact a product of Victorian modernity. The emergence of the brass band signaled the evolution of leisure and a new concept of 'rational recreations' in Victorian Britain, and it represented the first engagement of working-class people with instrumental art music as practitioners. Also considered are the impact of technological change and commercialization, and the interaction of regionalism and nationalism in the growth of the brass band movement
An interview with Colin Lawson
No full textAn interview with one of the leading writers on the clarinet, who is also a distinguished performer on period instruments
Book review: 'Shaping time: music, the brain, and performance' by David Epstein
No full textThis article reviews 'Shaping time: music, the brain, and performance' by David Epstein (New York: Schirmer, 1995), xvi + 598 pp. ISBN 0-02-873320-7
The origin of the species/L'origine d'un genre/Ursprung einer Gattung
No full textThe Wallace Collection recently released the recording The origin of the species, a performance of 19th-c. Cyfarthfa band repertoire on period instruments. The history of the Cyfarthfa Band, the first virtuoso brass band in Britain, is recounted, as are the processes used by the author and the trumpeter John Wallace to recreate its sound
