Military & Marches

There were approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British army in the interwar years. This was about a third of the total number of musicians in the music profession in the United Kingdom, making the War Office the largest single employer...

“The peerless musicians of the Royal Marines Band Service are no strangers to war, as the Author, Brian Short, himself a musician, reminds us in his book. Brian Short has an engaging style, and sense of humour, combined with a shrewd assessment of his...

Walton's two coronation marches - Crown Imperial, written for the coronation of George VI in 1937, and Orb and Sceptre, written for the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 - are both stirring marches with sweeping tunes, and famous examples of the genre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574241167Author Dave V. NobbmanPage Count 80Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

This monograph examines the relationship between music and memory as it relates to the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). Drawing upon a wide variety of sources in many languages, it explores the multiple ways in which music is employed to remember and to...

An advertisement in the sheet music of the song "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" (1917) announces: "Music will help win the war!" This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103886Author John M. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467129084Author Michelle BaheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 166mm * 8mm

Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039119765Author Ian PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 18mm

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...

Anthem Quality is a book about the lyrics of national anthems. In this theoretical survey, Christopher Kelen deals with the general meaning of an inter-national social phenomenon - the words we sing together with our compatriots when we assert ourselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039119772Author Ian PearsonFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 1084gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540241177Author John M FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906766133Author Neil EdmundsFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 550g

During the American Civil War, songs united and inspired people on both sides. The North had a well-established music publishing industry when the war broke out, but the South had no such industry. The importance of music as an expression of the South's...

Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences explains how the individual's conceptualization of reality is dependent on the development of their brain, body structure, and the experiences that are physiologically confronted, acted, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990830136Author Peter J Burke EddFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Prominence PublishingPublisher Prominence PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Ken Matthews was working at the CEGB's Marchwood Engineering Laboratories near Southampton when, in 1977, a group of his colleagues, who were keen brass band enthusiasts, started "having a blow" during their lunchtime break. He went along and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412054157Author Chris PrevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 433g

The first cultural history of the Philippines during the twentieth century, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation focuses on the relationships between music, performance, and ideologies of nation. Spanning the hundred years from the...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire into the Philippines while subjugating Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. And yet, one of the most popular musical acts was a band of "little brown men," Filipino...

In this, the first comprehensive study of the music of the Fourth of July, information on notable Independence Day compositions and performances is presented chronologically from 1777 through 2008. The book demonstrates the remarkable significance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275722002Author Frank MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 726g

This book can be used as an accompanying text for the collegiate marching band techniques course and to help build a successful marching band program at a high school. Topics include everything from developing a program handbook to student leadership and...

An advertisement in the sheet music of the song "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" (1917) announces: "Music will help win the war!" This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916074Author V F SafranakFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 186g

This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodgers-Bennett score. Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually...

The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual is the definitive guide to the intricate art of directing college and high school marching bands. Supplemented with musical arrangements, warm-up exercises, and over a hundred drill charts, this manual presents...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire into the Philippines while subjugating Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. And yet, one of the most popular musical acts was a band of "little brown men," Filipino musicians...