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CONTENTS
General brass band books
Specific brass bands
Biographical
Methods and conducting
Brass instruments and percussion
Other bands and ensembles
Brass band periodicals
Subscription band music journals
Films, TV, videos, radio etc.
Brass Bands in General
Alberry, W - Old Sussex Amateur Bands - Sussex County Magazine, XVIII, no.12 (1944), pp.314-20
Aldred, Helen Mary - Ifi palasa: brass bands in Tonga - MMus Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 1997
Andrews, F - Brass Band Cylinder and Non-microgroove Disc Recordings 1903-1960 - Piccolo Press, 1997 - ISBN: 1872203256
Andrews, W - Illustrated History of Luton and District Brass Bands - Luton, 1907
Anon - [article on the Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest] - The Dalesman, 52(6), September 1990
Anon - Brass Band Tuning - Wright & Round - 1933
Anon - Challenging Brass - The New Zealand Brass Band Championships 1880-1979 - NZBBA - 1980?
Anon - Directory Of British Brass Bands - British Federation Of Brass Bands - 1 (1975-76), 2 (1978-79), 3 (1980-81), 4 (1987), 5 (1988-89), 6 (1990-91), 7 (1992-93), 8 (1994), 9 (1995), 10 (1996), 11 (1997), 12 (1998), 13 (1999)
Anon - Endeavour - The New Zealand Brass Band Championships 1980-1995 - NZBBA - 1996?
Anon - Fiftieth West of England Bandsmen's Festival - Bugle, Cornwall, 15th June 1974, 50pp (complete details of the previous 49 festivals)
Anon - List of Prize Winners (with selections of music) - from commencement of Brass Band Contests held at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester - Manchester - 1909
Anon - List of Prize Winners of Belle Vue Contests from the Commencement in 1853 - Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester - 1973
Anon - The Amateur Band Teacher's Guide And Bandsman's Advisor (compilation of articles from Brass Band News) - Wright & Round - 1889
Anon - The Brass Band - A true and succinct account of the rise, progress and character of this celebrated troupe... - (Dublin) - 1854
Anon - The New Brass Age - British Bandsman - 1971
Anon - A Musical Prize Fight - All the Year Round, 12 November 1859, pp.65-68
Anon - Annual brass band contest at the Zoological Gardens, Bellevue - Musical World, 50 (1872), pp. 607-8
Anon - Brass Bands - The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 27, No. 520 (Jun. 1, 1
Anon - Brass Bands and Banners: Gala day in the coal mining community - Best of British (Past & Present) - May 2008
Anon - Brass Bands in Early Iowa - Annals Of Iowa, October 1956. Quarterly Publication By The Iowa State Department of History and Archives
Anon - Brass bands north-east of Manchester - In Britain Magazine (British Tourist Authority), May 1987, p.55
Anon - Brass Bands, in The Music Lovers' Pocket Book - Evans Brothers Ltd, 1960
Anon - Broadcasting Brass - Brass International, 10, (1982) pp.4-7
Anon - Czech brass band music - Music News from Prague, 2-3 (1981), pp. 6
Anon - Music in the open air - brass bands and bands non-military - Dwight's, 9 (1856), pp.93-94
Anon - Our Man in London: Salvation Army Bands - New Yorker, 40 (24 Oct. 1964), pp.47-49
Anon - Royal Performance (history of Reepham Town Band) - Norfolk Fair, (October 1979), pp. 30-31
Anon - Salvation and Bass Drums - Etude, 40 (Dec. 1922), pp.802
Anon - Salvation plus music - Newsweek, 18 (15 Dec. 1941), pp.69
Anon - The Bands of New York - Musical Trade Review, 2 (1876), pp.126-7
Anon - The brass band as a social factor - Music, (Chicago), 20 (1901), pp. 242-244
Anon - The National Brass Band Festival - Musical Times, 77 (1936), pp.936-937
Anon - The Village with Three Brass Bands [Bloxham]- The Countryman Magazine, Vol 38 (1), Autumn 1948, pp.77-79
Aspin, Chris - Music, in The First Industrial Society: Lancashire, 1750-1850, pp. 172-174, Helmshore Local History Society, 1969. ISBN: 1859360165
Avis, Robert W - The Brass Band - The Instrumentalist, 16/3 (Nov 1961), pp. 31
Avis, Robert W - The British brass band - The Instrumentalist, 24 (Nov. 1969), pp. 57-61
Bacon, Gertrude - The Genesis of a Brass Band - Good Words, 42 (1901), pp.471-475
Bailey, Keith - Cornets on the Copper Fields: a history of Brass Bands in the copper Triangle - Kadina Wallaroo Moonta Band , Adelaide, Australia - 1998.
Bainbridge, C - Brass Triumphant - Frederick Muller, 1980 - ISBN: 0584103727
Baines, A - Brass Instruments: Their History And Development - Dover, London, 1993 - ISBN: 0486275744
Baker, Richard - Finding That Old Familiar Tune - The Instrumentalist, 42/2 (Sep 1987), pp.84
Ball, E - The nature of the brass band - Sounding Brass, 1(1), (1972) pp.13+
Ballou, RE - A Guide for Brass Bands in the Pacific - Laie, Hawaii, 1982 - ISBN: 0939154293
Banks, E - How to cope with contests and win! - Brass International, 10, (1982) pp.20-21 886), p. 358
Bannister, C. George - Brass Bands - The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1112 (Oct., 1935), p. 930
Bashford, R - Repertory: brass band - Music in Education, 42/349 (1978), pp. 249-250
Bastick, Desmond - Trumpet Call - The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, Walkden, 1973
Bazin F - Music in the Isle of Man up to 1896, with a special study of nineteenth-century church music - PhD, The University of Liverpool, 1995
Bean, David - Sounding Brass - Fontana, 1980 [fiction]
Berger, Kenneth - The American brass band? Yes! - The Instrumentalist, 15 (Nov. 1960), pp. 44
Bergna, C et al - Le Brass Band: un autre style, une nouvelle pédagogie - Journal de la Confédération Musicale de France, 476, June 1998
Bergna, C et al - Les cuivres à l'heure du Brass Band - Journal de la Confédération Musicale de France, 450, February 1994
Bevan, Clifford - Tales from the Bandroom - Piccolo Press, Winchester. ISBN: 978-1-872203-35-5
Bierley, Paul E - Hallelujah trombone! - Integrity Press, Columbus, Ohio, 1982 - ISBN: 0918048036
Black, TF - Bandsmen and their Teeth - SP&S Publications - 1965
Blecha, Peter - Music in Washington: Seattle and Beyond - Arcadia Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 978 0738548180
Bolton, Barbara - Clattering Drums - in Booth's Drum. The Salvation Army in Australia 1880-1980 - Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1980. ISBN: 0340257717
Bonehill, Captain Ralph - The Young Bandmaster; or, Concert Stage & Battlefield - Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1900 [fiction]
Boon, B - Play the Music, Play! The Story of Salvation Army Bands - SP&S Publications - 1978
Boon, Brindley - Story of the International Staff Band - Record Greetings, 1985 - ISBN: 0951040804
Boosey & Hawkes (Canada) Ltd - Brass By Besson: Over 100 Years of Know-How - The Besson Story - Boosey & Hawkes (Canada) Ltd., Toronto, Canada, 1953
Booth, Evangeline - How Music Helps The Salvation Army - Etude, 62 (July 1944), pp.377+
Borland, John E. - Brass Bands for Elementary Schools - The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1111 (Sep., 1935), pp. 822-823
Borland, John E. - Brass Bands for Elementary Schools (Concluded) - The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1113 (Nov., 1935), pp. 993-996
Borland, John E. - Brass Bands for Elementary Schools (Continued) - The Musical Times, Vol. 76, No. 1112 (Oct., 1935), pp. 909-911
Borowicz, JT - The Mid-Nineteenth Century Brass Band: a Rebirth - Historic Brass Society Journal, 2 (1990), pp. 123-31
Bourke, Judith Kinnison - Brass bands and Family History - Family Tree Magazine - 12(6), p51
Bradford Museums Education Service - Brass roots: 150 years of brass bands: information pack - Bradford Museums Education Service with the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - 1989
Bradley, Ian - Blowing for the Lord - History Today, 27(3) (1977), pp.190-195
Brand, G - The brass age - Music (Journal of the Schools Music Association), 4/1 (1970), pp. 36-7
Brand, V - The World Of Brass Bands - Egon, 1986 - ISBN: 0905858360
Brand, V - British brass bands - amateur music with a professional touch - The Instrumentalist, 26 (Apr. 1972), pp. 18-21
Brand, Violet - Brass Bands In The Twentieth Century - Egon, 1979 - ISBN: 0905858123
Brand, Violet - The Story of the National - British Bandsman - 1971
Brand, Violet - Brass Bands: At Work and Play, in Jennings, P - The English Difference - Aurelia, 1974
Brand, Violet & Geoffrey - Bandsmans Diary - Egon Publishers - ?19?? - 2000....
Bridges, GD - Pioneers in Brass - CD-ROM edition. ISBN: 0916262057, available via www.trescottresearch.com
Bridges, GD - Pioneers in Brass - Sherwood Publications, Detroit - 1972
Bright, C - The school brass band in high pitch - Music in Education, 30/317 (1966), pp. 30-31
British Bandsman - The Story Of The National - The British Bandsman - 1971
Broadbent, Maxwell - Brass Bands - The Musical Times, Vol. 80, No. 1161 (Nov., 1939), p. 770
Brown, A - The Volunteer Band - East Anglian Magazine, 19 (1960), pp.166-70
Brown, Margaret Wise - The little brass band - Harper, New York, 1955 [children's]
Brown, Matthew - The Development of Brass Band Repertoire - dissertation, Cardiff University, 1998
Bryceson, Richard - Banding - in Everybody's Weekly - 6th October 1945, p.12
Burgess, Phillipa Edith - An Examination of Function, Venue, and Sources in the Repertoire of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Brass Bands - Ph.D. dissertation, historical musicology, University of Kentucky, 1997
Butterworth, A - The brass band - a cloth cap joke? - Music in Education, 34/342 (1970), pp. 78-79; 34/343 (1970), pp. 152-153
Bythell, D - Class, Community and Culture: the case of the brass band in Newcastle - Labour History (Australia), 67 (1994), pp.144-50
Bythell, Duncan - Brass Bands, in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music - Melbourne, OUP, 1995, 1997, pp.78-80
Bythell, Duncan - Provinces versus Metropolis in the British Brass Band Movement in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of William Rimmer and His Music - Popular Music, Vol. 16, No. 2, Core and Periphery: Routes in British Popular Music History 1850-1980 (May, 1997), pp. 151-163
Caisley, L - Brass bands in school - Sounding Brass, 1(1), (1972) pp.23
Caisley, L - Coming of Age - Sounding Brass, 2(3), (1973) pp.91-2
Camus, Raoul F - A Re-evaluation of the American Band Tradition - Journal of Band Research, 7 (Fall 1970), pp.6
Camus, Raoul F - The Heritage: Band Music of Colonial America - Music Journal, 29, no.6 (1971), pp.18
Camus, RFB - Some nineteenth century band journals. - in Fetschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Suppan, ed. Habla, B , pp. 335-347. Tutzing Hans Schneider, 1993 - ISBN: 3795207401, 1993
Carse, A - Brass bands - Monthly Musical Record, 58 (1928), pp. 327
Carver, P. Beechfield - How To Arrange For Brass Bands - Keith Prowse - 1939
Catelinet, P - The British concept of brass - The School Musician, 29 (Feb. 1958), pp. 10-
Catherall, A - Vibrant Brass - JM Dent & Sons - 1954 [fiction]
Cawdell, David - Grandad Played the Cornet: A History of Bands in North East Essex - The Author, 2007. Available from d.cawdell@btinternet.com
Cawdell, David - Strike the Right Note - Ancestors, (41) January 2006, pp. 17-21
Chandler, CH - Temperance Brass Bands - The British Workman and Home Companion for 1910 (55th volume) - S.W. Partridge & Co., London, 1910 - [Wingates, pp.43; Rushden's Musical Shoemakers, pp.51; The Tuneful Weavers of Burnley, pp.65; Nazebottom, pp.77; Carlton, Yorks, pp.77; Atherton's Young Men, pp.88; The Plucky Colliers of Lower Ince, pp.99; S. Nottingham, pp.120; Rothwell, pp.126; The Musical Bootmakers of Raunds, pp.142.]
Christie, Greg - "...And The Band Played On..." 100 Years of Malton White Star Band (and 175 years of Ryedale's other 'Musical Movements') - Samsmall Publications, 2001. ISBN: 0954073908. Copies can be ordered from Greg Christie, at £5 including postage - contact Samsmall1@aol.com.
Clark,Ken - Bold as brass - a tribute to brass bands in West Herts - Hertfordshire Countryside, Vol 59 (541), May 2004, pp. 32-33
Clarke, George - Bold as brass: a bandsman's tales - United Writers, 1997. ISBN: 1852000759
Clover, David & Percival, Allen - School Bands School Bands - The Musical Times, Vol. 112, No. 1543 (Sep., 1971), p. 856
Cockcroft, William R. - [Police Bands] in, From cutlasses to computers: the police force in Liverpool 1836-1989 - SB Publications, Liverpool, 1991
Collins, Robert - A Divine Melody, in The Holy War of Sally Ann: the Salvation Army in Canada - (p. 174-181), Western Producer Prairie Books, Saskatoon, 1984
Cook, K - The brass band repertory - The Musical Times, 90 (1949), pp. 243-244
Cook, Kenneth - Music Through The Brass Band - Hinrichsen - 1953
Cook, Kenneth - Oh Listen To The Band - Hinrichsen - 1950
Cook, Kenneth - The Bandsman's Everything Within - Hinrichsen - 1950
Cooke, PM - Eric Ball: His Words and His Wisdom (writings from The Bandsman etc.) - Egon, 1992 - ISBN: 0905858824
Cooper, TL - Brass Bands Of Yorkshire - Dalesman Books, 1974 - ISBN: 0852061951
Copeland, Jennie F - Brass Bands, in Every Day But Sunday: the Romantic Age of New England Industry - Mansfield, Massachusetts, 1936
Cordellier, B et al - L'école des cuivres - Journal de la Confédération Musicale de France, 458, June 1995
County Durham Books - Banners and Brass - Images of Durham Miners' Gala - County Durham Books, 2006, ISBN: 1897585926
Coutts, F - The History of the Salvation Army - volume 6 - Nelson, London, 1973
Coutts, F - The History of the Salvation Army - volume 7 - Nelson, London, 1986
Cox, BG - "Strike Up the Band" - a Short History of Brass Banding in Blandford Forum - Blandford Forum Museum, 1987
Croke, L - Standard Directory of Brass and Military Bands - Musical Distributors - 1939
Crossley-Holland, Peter - Brass Bands, in Music in Wales - Hinrichsen Edition, London, 1948
Cunliffe, John - Tots and the brass band - Hippo, 1995, ISBN: 0590559427 [children's]
Curtis, M - Laughing Brass Opus 2 (Cartoons) - Egon - 1987
Curtis, M - Laughing Brass (Cartoons) - Egon - 1983
Curwen, John - The brass band book for tonic sol-fa pupils, containing instructions... for the cornet, bugle, tenor, baritone, euphonium, bombardon, trumpet, trombone, ophecleide and French horn - London - 1864
Dallas, K - Brass bound - Melody Maker, 49 (7 Sep. 1974), pp. 41
Darbyshire, Bramwell - Woodland Citadel (Illustrated by James Moss) - Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, London, 1959. A record of the activities of the Woodland Citadel - a corps in which the Band Leader is an owl and trombones are played by Badgers; meetings are attended by moles, jays, worms...and one special visitor is a rhino! [children's]
Darke, Marjorie - The big brass band - Minnow books, Kestrel Books, 1976, ISBN: 0722651325 [children's]
Desmond, J - Tubas, Cornets and Bibles: Bands of the Salvation Army - New York Times Magazine, (29 Apr 1945), pp.22-23
Dodworth, Harvey B - Band Music Then and Now - American Art Journal, 31 (July 1880), pp.1
Droste, P - Let's start a brass band - School Musician, 58, (Oct 1986) pp.18-19
Duckworth, Charles - Brass Bands in and around Buckley - Buckley: The Magazine of the Buckley Society, No.8, March 1983, pp.3-9
Duncan, Alice - Wild Dream - Dell?, 1997?, ISBN: 044022361X (A romance/comedy - inspired by the Americus Brass Band) [fiction]
Dutton, B - British Brass Band Championships - T.U.B.A. Journal, 7(4) (Spring 1980), pp.11-14
Ehrlich, Cyril - The Music Profession in Britain Since the Eighteenth Century: A Social History - Clarendon, Oxford, 1985
Elliot, J.H. - The All-Brass Ensemble - Music & Letters, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 30-34
Elliot, JH - The Modern Brass Band and its Music -  
Elliot, JH - Brass music in development - Monthly Musical Record, 67 (1937), pp. 34-35
Elliot, JH - Music for brass - Monthly Musical Record, 62 (1932), pp. 105-6
Elliot, JH - The evolution of music for brass - The Musical Times, 77 (1936), pp. 885-887
Elliott, Christopher - Facts about brass bands - East Anglian Magazine, (June 1952), pp.534-8
Ellis, Katharine - The Fair Sax: Women, Brass-Playing and the Instrument Trade in 1860s Paris - Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 124, No. 2 (1999), pp. 221-254
Erickson, Frederick - The Bands and Orchestras of Colonial Brisbane - PhD thesis, University of Queensland, 1987
Erwin, Paul Francis - Bands, Bandmasters and Bandstands: A Search for Public Support in Democracy - Journal of American Culture, 9(3), Fall 1986, pp.55
Etheridge, Stephen - Dancing was afterwards indulged in, and kept up until a late hour: The Pennine Brass Band as the social cement of the community - Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference, Surrey University, 3-6 January 2008
Etheridge, Stephen - Slate-grey rain and polished euphoniums: The Pennine Brass Band 1840-1928; social and musical influences that created a working-class cultural, and regional northern identity- MA Social and Cultural History Thesis, Leeds Metropolitan University, September 2006.
Etheridge Stephen - Working - Class Brass Bands in Yorkshire, 1856 -1914: Perceptions of Respectability, Perceptions of Control? - New Research into the History of Yorkshire - The Royal Hotel, Hull, Saturday November 7th 2009
Evans, A. Leslie - Brass bands of Cwmavon - Transactions of the Port Talbot Historical Society - 4/1 (1990)
Evans, V - Durham County Brass Band League Golden Jubilee 1940-1990 - County Durham Books, 1992 - ISBN: 1897585004
Farmer, HG - The History of the Brass Band Movement -University of Glasgow, Farmer Manuscripts 99/2
Farrant, Jean - Boulder bands win at Ballarat, 1904/ 1905, in [Layman, Lenore and Stannage, Tom (eds). Celebrations in Western Australia] - Studies in Western Australian History, no.10, Apr 1989, pp.107-113
Felts, Jack - Some Aspects of the Rise and Development of the Wind Band During the Civil War - Journal of Band Research, 3 (Spring 1967), pp.38
Fennell, Frederick - The Civil War: Its Music and its Sounds - Journal of Band Research, 3 (Fall 1967), pp.28
Field, Douglas - The British are Coming - Again - The Instrumentalist, 44/2 Sep 1989, pp.70-72
Finnegan, Ruth - The Brass Band World, in The Hidden Musicians: Music-making in an English Town - Cambridge University Press, 1989 - ISBN: 0521360668
Flaes, R.B. - Brass Unbound: Secret Children of the Colonial Brass Band - Royal Tropical Institute, 2000
Fleck, HC - The oldest American brass band - Etude, 5 (1937), pp.304
Flor, GJ (ed) - Brass Workshop: the British Brass Band in the United States - School Musician, 58, (Dec 1986) pp.18-20
Forfar Instrumental Band - Championship Contest Results from 1895-1966 - Scottish Amateur Band Association, 1966
Forman, Charles - Brass Bands, in Industrial Town - Self Portrait of St Helens in the 1920s, Cameron and Tayleur, 1978, pp. 185-187
Fox, LM - Instruments Of Processional Music - Lutterworth Press - 1967
Fox, Michael & Peter - Bands and Band Contest, in A Saddleworth Whitsuntide - Michael & Peter Fox and St Chad's Church, Saddleworth, 1990. pp. 8-11
Frak, CA - It Makes Great Sense - The Instrumentalist, 15/8 (Apr 1961), pp.32
Frak, CA - The American brass band - it makes great sense - The Instrumentalist, 15 (Apr. 1961), pp. 32
Frederick, Matthew David - The history, the lives, and the music of the Civil War brass band - DMA thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Galloway, William Johnson - Musical England - Christophers, London, 1910
Gammon, V - Popular Music in Rural Society: Sussex 1815-1914 - D.Phil Thesis, University of Sussex - 1985
Gammond, P - Music On Record: Brass Bands - Patrick Stephens, 1980 - ISBN: 0850593662
Garofalo, Robert - Heritage Americana: Reflections on the Performance Practices of Mid-Nineteenth Century Brass Bands - Journal of Band Research, 17(1) (Fall 1981), pp.1-26
Gartside, P - Guidelines on Brass Band Sponsorship - Millom, 1996 - ISBN: 1900821109
Gay, B - New music for the brass band - Music in Education, 34/341 (1970), pp. 28-29
Gay, B - The brass band - what now? - Music in Education, 34/344 (1970), pp. 205
Gerschefski, E - To the brass band - Modern Music, 14 (1937), pp. 189-192
Giles, Ray - Here Comes the Band - On the history of musical instruments and bands - Harper & Bros, London, 1936
Glover, EN - The Salvation Army International Staff Band - The Instrumentalist, 11 (June 1957), pp.25
Goodland, Norman - Rural Musicians - The Musical Times, Vol. 102, No. 1422 (Aug., 1961), pp. 490-491
Graham, Alberta Powell - Great Bands of America - Thomas Nelson, New York, 1951
Graham, Alberta Powell - The Salvation Army Band, in Great Bands of America - Thomas Nelson, New York, 1951 pp. 134-5
Graham, Peter - Music for Brass band - thesis, Salford University, 1999
Greaves, Jack and Earl, Chris - Legends in Brass - Australian Brass Band Achievers of the 20th Century - Muso's Media, 2002. ISBN: 095969403X. (PO Box 188, Kangaroo Flat, Australia 3555)
Green?, Alec - Playing's only part of it: a few brass band stories - The author?, Saddleworth? - 1986
Greenhalgh, A - Hail Smiling Morn: Whit Friday Brass Band March Contests 1884-1991 - Oldham Leisure Services, 1992 - ISBN: 0902809172
Greenhalgh, A - Playing's only a part of it... - Brass Band stories collected by Alec Greenhalgh - anecdotes from many luminaries of the brass band movement.
Greenhalgh, D - Around the bandstand - East London Record, 7 (1984), pp14-20
Griffith, D - A Musical Place of the First Quality - a History of Institutional Music-Making in York, c.1550-1989 - Ph.D. thesis, University of York - 1990
Griffith, D - A Musical Place of the First Quality - a History of Institutional Music-Making in York, c.1550-1990 - York Settlement Trust, 199?, ISBN: 0951922939
Hailstone, Alf - The British Bandsman Centenary Book: A Social History Of Brass Bands - Egon, 1987 - ISBN: 0905858395
Hailstone, Alf - The Brass Bands of England - This England - 25(2), Summer 1992, pp. 48-50
Hailstone, Alf - The British bandsman - T.U.B.A. Journal, 14/2 (Nov. 1986), pp.16
Hamblen, David - Early Boston Bands - Journal of Music, 24 (December 1966), pp.32-33
Hammerton, Peter - The Compère's Handbook
Hanci, T - Brass bands in Czechoslovakia - Journal of Band Research, 6/1 (1969), pp.42-45
Hawkes, Colonel FG - Studies In Time And Tempo: A Handbook for Conductors - Salvationist Publishing & Supplies - 1936
Haymonds, Alison - Airs and Places: People and Music in Berkshire, Corridor Press, Reading, 1999. ISBN:1897715552
Hazell, C - Not so much a brass band, more a way of life - Sounding Brass, 1(3), (1972) pp.84-87
Hazelman, H - The British brass band - The Instrumentalist, 16 (Sep. 1961), pp.59-60
Hazen, Margaret - Music Men: Illustrated History Of Brass Bands In America - Smithsonian Institute - 1987
Hazen, Margaret - Register of the Hazen collection of band photographs and ephemera, ca. 1818-1931 - Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution - 1990
Hazen, R.M. and Hazen, M.H. - Brass bands in stereo - Stereo World, May-June 1987, pp14-22
Hebert, D. G. - Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan - opening presentation, Music of Japan Today 2007 conference, March 30, 2007
Hebert, D. G. - Conducting Japanese Wind Music: Analytical and Phenomenological Insights - paper presentation, International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music (IGEB), Echternach, Luxembourg, July 10-15, 2008
Hebert, D. G. - Intercultural Music Transmission in the History of New Zealand Brass Bands - paper presentation, Society for Ethnomusicology 53nd Annual Conference, Middletown, CT, October 25-28, 2008
Hebert, D. G. - Music Competition, Cooperation and Community: An Ethnography of a Japanese School Band - Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, 2005. ISBN: 0496975889
Hebert, D. G. - Music Transmission Among Polynesian Brass Bands of New Zealand - paper presentation, Society for Ethnomusicology, 51st Annual Conference, 2006.
Hebert, D. G. - Transculturation in New Zealand Brass Bands - paper presentation, International Wind Music Conference - Away From Home: Wind Music as Cultural Identification, International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music (IGEB), 2006
Hebert, D. G. - Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan. In E. M. Richards & K. Tanosaki (Eds.), Music of Japan Today - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008, pp.236-244
Hebert, D. G. - Hoshina and Ito: Japanese Wind Band Composers - Journal of Band Research, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2001, pp. 61-77
Hebert, D. G. - Japanese Wind Bands in International Perspective - Japanese Band Directors Association Journal, Vol. 13, 2007, pp. 35-46
Hebert, D. G. - Music Transculturation and Identity in a Maori Brass Band Tradition. In R. Camus & B. Habla, Eds. Alta Musica, 26 (2008), Schneider (for IGEB: International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music), pp.173-200
Hebert, D. G. - Music Transculturation and Identity in a Maori Brass Band Tradition. In R. Camus & B. Habla, Eds. Alta Musica, 26 (2008), Schneider (for IGEB: International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music), pp.173-200
Hebert, D. G. - Music Transmission in an Auckland Tongan Community Youth Band - International Journal of Community Music, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008 pp.169-188
Hebert, D. G. - The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra: A Case Study of Intercultural Music Transmission - Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2001, pp. 212-226
Hebert, D. G. - Transculturation of Wind Band Music: The Case of a Maori Band in Tokyo, 1924 - Part I - Japanese Band Directors Association Journal, Vol. 14, 2008
Hebert, D. G. - Transculturation of Wind Band Music: The Case of a Maori Band in Tokyo, 1924 - Part II - Japanese Band Directors Association Journal, Vol. 15, 2008
Hebert, David G. - Music Transmission Among Polynesian Brass Bands of New Zealand - Unpublished Thesis - Boston University, 2006
Heiling, Gunnar - Play well and have fun. Community, group-coherence and musical development in an amateur brass band. - Dissertation: Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, 2000
Helme, Christopher David - What Brass Bands Did for Me - The History Press Ltd, 2009, ISBN-13: 9780752449821
Henneman, Harry O. - Hints in practical arranging for brass and military band - Edward B. Marks, New York, 1944
Herbert, Trevor - Social history and music history, in Clayton, Herbert and Middleton (eds), The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, pp.146-56.
Herbert, Trevor - Bands: The Brass Band Movement In The 19th And 20th Centuries - Open University Press, 1991 - ISBN: 0335097030
Herbert, Trevor - Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments - Cambridge University Press - 1997
Herbert, Trevor - The British brass band a musical and social history - (Published May 2000) Oxford University Press, 2000 - ISBN: 0198166982
Herbert, Trevor - A Softening Influence: R. T. Crawshay and the Cyfarthfa Band - Merthyr Historian, Vol. 5, pp.35-42, Merthyr, ISBN 0950484555
Herbert, Trevor - Bands and their relationship to mainstream art music, Brass Symposium 2004, University of Durham, November 2004.
Herbert, Trevor - Brass at the periphery: the Salvation Army: paper to American Musicological Society Conference, Boston, October/November 1998.
Herbert, Trevor - Brass bands and orchestral brass sections, Music Teacher: Teaching Brass, April 1998, pp. 14-16.
Herbert, Trevor - Brass Bands and Social Trends in Victorian Britain: paper to the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, London, August 1997
Herbert, Trevor - Brass instruments and the popular tradition, American Musicological Society conference, Toronto, 1-5 November 2000.
Herbert, Trevor - Brass Recordings and Performance Practice', Historic Brass Symposium, Cité de la musique, Paris, 10-13 March 1999.
Herbert, Trevor - Cultures of brass playing in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries: paper to the 23rd Annual Historic Brass Society Festival, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, August 2007
Herbert, Trevor - Enderby Jackson's Crystal Palace Brass Band Contests', Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, University of Durham, July 1999.
Herbert, Trevor - Gender Issues in Historic Brass Performance in the 16th and the 19th Centuries: paper to The Historic Brass Society Conference, Amherst, Mass., August 1996
Herbert, Trevor - Kneller Hall: the establishment of a "national" military music education, Music in 19th -Century Britain conference, Royal College of Music, July 2001.
Herbert, Trevor - Land of whose fathers?: Caradog, charisma and the Welsh musical tradition: paper to the Identities and Differences: Music and Cultures Conference, University of Newcastle, 17 February 1999.
Herbert, Trevor - Late Victorian and Edwardian Bands in Wales and Establishment Attitudes: paper to the 1994 Inaugural Conference of The Welsh Music History Centre
Herbert, Trevor - Late Victorian Brass Bands and Cymmrodorian Attitudes - Welsh Music History, 1 (1996), pp.1-11
Herbert, Trevor - Methods of studying "dark areas" of nineteenth-century British music, Royal Society of Musicians conference, Cardiff University, September 2003.
Herbert, Trevor - Military music and the musical infrastructure in Britain c.1780-c.1860: paper to the Sixth Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain, University of Birmingham, July 2007
Herbert, Trevor - Military music articles in the Farmer Collection, in Carl Cowl & Sheila M. Craik (ed.), Henry George Farmer: A Bibliography, Glasgow University Library, 1999, pp. XVII-XXI, ISBN 0852616902.
Herbert, Trevor - Music and Power: the Origins of the Welsh Choral Tradition: paper to the Third Conference of the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies, University of Wales Bangor, September 1997
Herbert, Trevor - Music in the Salvation Army before 1918', Institute of Historical Research, University of London, November 1999.
Herbert, Trevor - Nineteenth-century Bands and Mainstream Art Music: paper to the American Musicological Society, New York City, 1995
Herbert, Trevor - Paris, the factory of ideas: keynote paper to the Cité de la Musique/Historic Brass Society conference, Paris, the factory of ideas: the influence of Paris on brass instruments c.1840-c.1930, Cité de la Musique, Paris, June-July 2007
Herbert, Trevor - Reconstructing the Cyfarthfa Sound: paper to the 1995 International Historic Brass Symposium, Amherst, Massachusetts
Herbert, Trevor - Repertory of a Victorian provincial brass band - Popular Music, 9/1 (1990), pp. 117-132
Herbert, Trevor - Selling brass instruments: the commercial imaging of brass instruments (1830-1930) and its cultural messages, 9th Conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography, Metropolitan Museum, New York, November 2003.
Herbert, Trevor - Selling brass instruments: the commercial imaging of brass instruments (1830-1930) and its cultural messages, in Music in Art: the International Journal for Music Iconography, 28/1-2 (Spring-Fall 2004), 213-26.
Herbert, Trevor - The brass band movement', History of brass band music conference, University of York, 4 February 2000.
Herbert, Trevor - The cornett-sackbut ensemble in England in the 17 th century', Flanders Early Music Festival, Utrecht, August/September 2000.
Herbert, Trevor - The cultures of the trombone, Historic Brass Society conference, Yale, July 2003.
Herbert, Trevor - The Invincible Eagle: John Philip Sousa's 1900 British tour, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, October 2002.
Herbert, Trevor - The migrants return: the British reception of John Philip Sousa's Band, 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August 2002.
Herbert, Trevor - The origin of the species: the repertoire of the Cyfarthfa Band - Brass Bulletin, 97 (1997), pp. 38-44
Herbert, Trevor - The Origins of the Brass Band Movement: paper to the 1991 Historic Brass Society Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts
Herbert, Trevor - The Performance Culture of Victorian Brass Bands, British Association for Victorian Studies, Lancaster, September 2001.
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Herbert, Trevor - The Robert Minter Archive as a Profile of Natural Trumpet Repertory: paper to the 1992 Historic Brass Society Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts
Herbert, Trevor - The Salvation Army: God's perfect minstrels', Historic Brass Society conference, Berkeley, August 1999.
Herbert, Trevor - The virtuosi of Merthyr - Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, 5/1 (1988), pp. 60-69
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Herbert, Trevor - Victorian Brass Bands: The Establishment of a "Working Class Musical Tradition" - Historic Brass Society Journal, 4 (1992), pp. 1-11
Herbert, Trevor - Volunteers, Salvationists And Committees: Consensus Versus Regulation in Amateur Victorian Brass Bands - Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 50 (1999), pp. 105-122. ISSN: 0220-5610
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