Table of Contents: Brass roots :

Main Author:	Newsome, Roy
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot ; Ashgate, c1998.
Subjects:	Brass bands > History. > Great Britain Brass band music > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

1. Music in nineteenth-century Britain
2. Wind instruments and the growth of the amateur band
3. Contests from 1860; the "Great Triumvirate"; J. H. Iles
4. Unpublished nineteenth-century brass band music and the development of instrumentation
5. Published brass band music in the nineteenth century
6. Into the twentieth century -the National Brass Band Championships
7. Principal arranger/composers and their music
8. Popular band music in thetwentieth century
9. A new type of test piece - the original work
10. Retrospect
App. 6. Alexander Owen's arrangements and compositions
App. 7. Henry Round scores at Besses
App. 8. Wright & Round successful test pieces
App. 9. Original works - 1913-1936.