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  • The Brass Band Story

    A lively and engaging history of the brass band in Britain and beyondBrass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread across the country at breathtaking speed. At their height in the late Victorian ... Read more

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    The Brass Band Story

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    11 hours 30 min

    A lively and engaging history of the brass band in Britain and beyondBrass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread across the country at breathtaking speed. At their height in the late Victorian ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Music in Words

    A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music

    Music in Words is a compact guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the issues that anyone who writes about music--from students to professional musicians and critics--may confront when putting together anything from brief program notes to a lengthy thesis. The book is a writing guide and a reference manual in one: the first part, a "how to" section, offers a clear explanation ... Read more

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  • Music in Words

    A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music

    Music in Words is a compact guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the issues that anyone who writes about music--from students to professional musicians and critics--may confront when putting together anything from brief program notes to a lengthy thesis. The book is a writing guide and a reference manual in one: the first part, a "how to" section, offers a clear explanation ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Study of Music

    A Critical Introduction

    What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the book’s initial publication. Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments

    Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments

    Edited by Trevor Herbert, John Wallace ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion covers many diverse aspects of brass instruments and in such detail. It provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their technical and musical development. Although the greatest part of the volume is devoted to the western art music tradition, with chapters covering topics from the medieval to the contemporary periods, there are important contributions on the ... Read more

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  • The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836

    Enriched edition. Evolution of Mail Delivery and Postal Reform in Historical England

    In "The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836," Herbert Joyce delivers a meticulous examination of the evolution of postal services in England. Employing a blend of historical narrative and analytical rigor, Joyce navigates through the intricacies of postal operations, legal frameworks, and societal impacts from the inception of the Post Office. His work is anchored in a ... Read more

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  • The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The presidency of Donald J. Trump is rather ordinary. Trump himself may be the most unusual, unorthodox and unconventional president the US has ever had. Yet, even with his extraordinary personality and approach to the job, his presidency is proving quite ordinary in its accomplishments and outcomes, both at home and abroad. Like most modern US presidents, the number and scope of Trump’s ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The History of Tasmania, volume 1 of 2

    by John West ...
    First published in 1852. "Nearly fifty years have elapsed, since Van Diemen's Land was numbered with the colonies of the British empire. A generation has risen up and is passing away. Thousands, while they venerate the land of their European ancestors, with an amiable fondness love Tasmania as their native country. They will, hereafter, guide its affairs, extend its commerce, and defend its soil; ... Read more

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  • Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people ... Read more

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