AHISTORYOF THEWINDBANDby Dr.

StephenL. Rhodes

Table of Contents

1. The Medieval Wind Band

The Beginning of the Medieval Wind Band - SlowAcceptance of Wind Instruments into the Church -Medieval Civic Bands: Great Britain, France, andGermanic Countries - Court Wind Bands - Influencefrom the East

2. The Renaissance Wind Band

Renaissance Wind Instruments: Flute, Cupped-Mouthpiece Instruments, Double Reeds - Consorts,Consort Music - The House of Tudor: Henry VIII,Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Progresses - The ElizabethanTheater: Trumpet, Horn & Cornett, Double Reeds,Flute, Fife & Drum - France, Charles V - Music and theMilitary - The Battle - St. Mark's and the Glory ofVenice - Instrumental Forms

3. The Baroque Wind Band

Monteverdi's Orfeo - Development of Instruments:Oboe & Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet - Stadtpfeifer inLeipzig - Composers of Central & Eastern Europe:Pezel, Massaino, Fasch, Heinichen, Vivaldi, Telemann- The French Court of the Late 17th Century - TheEnglish Wind Band: Military Music, Music for the RoyalFireworks - Mehter Bands of the Ottoman Empire - The

7. The British Brass Band

Formative Years: Military Bands, Church Bands, VillageBands - Adolph Sax and the Distin Family -Manufacture and Sales of Instruments - Three Types ofBands Emerge: Patronage Bands, Subscription Bands,Volunteer Bands - Starting a Band - The Salvation ArmyBand - 19th-Century Brass Band Music - The Call forOriginal Music - The 20th-Century Brass BandMovement: Number of Bands, Public Perception ofBands, Acceptance of Women, Social Change and BandLiterature - Contests and Festivals: Early Years, TheNational Brass Band Championship

8. English Composers and the MilitaryBand

Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-flat, Second Suite in F,Hammersmith - Ralph Vaughan Williams: English FolkSong Suite, Sea Songs and Toccatta Marziale, Flourish forWind Band - Percy Aldridge Grainger: Folk SongInfluences, Lincolnshire Posy, Early Works, Later Works

- Military Band vs. Brass Band

9. The American School BandMovement

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Fireworks - Mehter Bands of the Ottoman Empire - TheCourt of Peter the Great

4. Harmoniemusik and the ClassicalWind Band

Roots of Harmoniemusik: HarmoniemusikInstrumentation, Contrabass--the Ninth Player -Performance Venues - Harmonie Literature - ProminentEnsembles: The Emperor's Harmonie, Prince Aloys vonLiechtenstein, Prince Kraft Ernst at Wallerstein, PrinceSchwarzenberg, Elector Maximilian Franz, Prince KarlEgon von Fürstenberg - Composers of Harmoniemusik:Franz Josef Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, FranzKrommer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert -Harmonie in America - Russian Horn Bands

5. Revolution and 19th-Century Europe

Band Music of the French Revolution - Hector Berlioz'Symphony for Band - Felix Mendelssohn - WilhelmWieprecht: Prussian Military Bands, Toward ConsistentInstrumentation, Massed Concerts and AdditionalReforms - Richard Wagner: Early Works, Trauersinfonie,Huldigungsmarsch, Kaisermarsch - Edvard Grieg -Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-flat, Suite in B-flat,Fanfare der Stadt Wien, The Invalid and CheerfulWorkshops - Antonin Dvorák, Charles Gounod - OtherWorks

6. The 19th-Century American WindBand

The Brass Band Movement: Keyed Brass, Valved Brass,The Saxhorn - Brass Bands and the Civil War:Responsibilities of Bandsmen, Interaction betweenUnion and Confederate Bands, Over-the-ShoulderSaxhorns - Professional Bands: The Dodworth Family,Great Entertainers, Monsieur Antoine Jullien - PatrickS. Gilmore: Gilmore vs. Kendall, Civil WarEngagement, Oversized Concerts, National PeaceJubilee, World Peace Jubilee, Gilmore'sContemporaries, Gilmore's Band, Concert Soloists -John Philip Sousa: The Marine Band, The March King,

Sousa Forms His Own Band - Creatore and the ItalianInvasion - Patrick Conway - Frederick Innes - ArthurPryor

Music Education in the 19th Century - School Bands ofthe Early Twentieth Century - Decline in ProfessionalBands - The First National School Band Contest:Frustrations Ensue, Plans for Continuation - The 1926Contest - The 1927 Contest - The 1928 Contest -Standard Instrumentation - The 1929 Contest - The 1930and 1931 Contests - Subsequent Contests and theBeginning of the End

10. The Glorious March

Military Uses of Music - Early Military Use - MarchForm - March Tempo - Early Marches - The Golden Eraof the March - Twentieth-Century Marches: Movies andTelevision, Circus Marches - Marches in a Variety ofGenres: Symphony/Symphonic Form, Ballet andIncidental Music, Marches in Opera - KeyboardMarches

11. Instrumentation

Diverse History of Instrumentation - United States vs.International Standards - Problems in Instrumentationand Bandstration - Instrumentation and the NationalSchool Band Contest - The Clarinet Choir - WindEnsemble vs. Symphonic Band

12. 20th-Century Repertoire

Repertoire of the Early Twentieth Century - Repertoireof the Early 1940s - Repertoire of the 1940s and 1950s:American Composers Make Their Mark - Repertoire ofthe 1960s - Repertoire of the 1970s - Repertoire of the1980s - Repertoire of the 1990s

Bibliography

About the Author

Image credit: Photograph of the Band of the King's Division in York, taken by Ian Britton, 2006.Copyright © 2006, Ian Britton, www.freefoto.com. Used by permission.

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