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The World of Brass Bands

World of brass bands -- History of brass bands -- Individual bands -- Contests history -- Press articles -- Other brass resources -- Bandstands -- Championships

See also General music reference

• Bandsman's Prayer
• The Brass Band Bibliography - Books and journals
• What is a Brass Band?
• British-style Brass Band Instrumentation
• Back articles from "The Conductor"
• Copyright FAQ - questions and answers about copyright, particularly that of music
• Le brass band
• Les Brass Bands - by Isabell Sothier
• Master Class on Conducting - presented by Geoffery Brand
• Percussion and the Brass Band - by Arthur Butterworth
• Salvation Army Bands
• Tips on hiring a brass band
• How to Write for Brass Bands
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia entry

History of Brass Bands

See also People for living and historical figures, including composers.

See also Vintage Brass Band Pictures.

See also Extinct Brass Bands.

See also Vintage Brass Band Recordings.

See also Brass Bands Genealogies.

See Brass Band Historians and Researchers for details of those seeking information

• Appleton family in brass bands
• Band Watching - Beginning and ending with The Beatles - a Short Appraisal of Brass Bands in Popular Music Culture
• Bands in the Mining Industry
• Bandsmens' Name Index for Selected Victorian (Australia) Bands 1890-1981
• Blow 'im - the story of Indigenous brass bands in Queensland
• Brass & Banners - A History of the North East Coalfield - Video
• Brass Band Genealogy - name changes and dates
• Brass Band - Musikstil oder Lebenseinstellung
• Brass Band Recordings from the 78 r.p.m. Era
• Brass Band Repertoire History
• Brass Band Research Archive - University College Salford
• Brass band tradition in Tameside
• Brass bands at Belle Vue, Manchester
• Brass Bands at Craft Shows
• Brass Bands in the Salvation Army
• Brass bands in Welsh slate quarrying communities
• Brassband historie
• British Pathé - downloadable newsreels of early brass bands
• California Brass Bands and Their Music (1851-1890) - part of the California Sheet Music Project
• Canadian Band History
• Campfield Musical Instrument Works (Salvation Army)
• Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library, 81 Library Lane, Chatfield, MN 55923, USA, Tel: +1 507-867-3275
• Civil War Bands (US)
• Cyfarthfa Reborn
• Brass Band Archive, an archive of more than 10,000 sets of music and scores, recordings, programmes, band journals and more. A resource for the serious researcher and the simply curious! - Windsor House, 232 Scholes, Wigan, WN1 3NH. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For an appointment to view the collection at other times, telephone the curator, Walter Ainscough, 01942 231811, or Alan Marsh, 01942 747644
• Early Music America
• Den engelske Brass Band-bevćgelse (in Danish)
• Eric Ball in Cornwall
• Extinct Brass Bands - details of the bands of yesteryear
• The 50s and 60s revisited - by David Read
• The First Brass Band?
• GABBF Band History Conferences, 1996 - 2001
• Goff Richards
• Gold and Brass - the brass band and social music traditions of the Californian Gold Rush from 1850-1870s
• The Golden Age of Brass (US)
• Great British Low Brass Sections of the Past
• Historical Bands of Lycoming County, PA
• Historical Photos of Brass Bands from the Hobart region (See under "History")
• History and Tradition of the Finnish Brass Band
• History of Brass Bands
• The History Of Brass Bands In Great Britain - K. Riach
• History of the Brass Band
• History of Brass Band Instruments
• History of Brass Bands in British Columbia
• History of 1800's Railway Brass Bands (US)
• How Brass Bands Are Made
• The Iles and Mortimer Medals
• Kays Heritage Group - Kay & Co Ltd not only supplied musical instruments through its catalogues in the 1890s until 1920s, but also supplied uniforms to match the band's chosen scheme.
• Lindsay's Brass Band History
• Louisburg Brass Bands, 1903-1935 (Nova Scotia)
• Lynn L. Sams Papers University of Maryland Libraries, Special Collections in Performing Arts, American Bandmasters Association Research Center
• New Zealand Brass Bands
• Nineteenth Century Bands - Making a Movement - Trevor Herbert
• Old postcards of bands for sale
• The Origin of Brass Bands
• Origins.net - genealogical data for online family history research
• Origins of the British-style Brass Band
• Papers of James Dewar Hunter (Secretary NZ South Islands BBA)
• The Past and Future of Brass Bands
• PMRC Brass Band Research Archive - Popular Music Research Centre - This houses a complete library of the National Youth Brass band of Great Britain, a large number of original scores and a unique, chronological collection of Brass Band News, ranging from 1882-1956 as well as a collection of band parts for test pieces used in the Belle Vue Contests between 1895-1916. Housed at the University of Salford.
• Railways in Music (some information about railway bands)
• Regulations for Salvation Army Bands
• Rockhampton Adjudication Report (1906)
• Roy Lambeth and the Durham Miners’ Gala – 1983
• Salvation Army Bands
• Salvation Army Bands - a brief introduction from the Australian Salvation Army
• Salvation Army Collectables - including information and items relating to SA bands
• Shropshire Mining - Brass Bands and Collieries
• Snippets from the "Musical Times"
• Snippets of Information about Brass Bands
• So what is a Brass Band?
• Some "old" bands around the UK
• Temperance Band Rules
• Top 10 Greatest Brass Band Contest Composers
• Vintage Brass Band Pictures 
• Windjammers Unlimited, Inc. - A historical music society that is dedicated to the preservation of traditional music of the circus.

History of Individual Bands
Individual band sites usually have a page or more about their specific history. Most of these below are not part of a particular band website.

• Extinct Brass Bands - details of the bands of yesteryear
  
  
• Online Brass Band Newsletters - links to the websites
  
  
• Addington Workshop Brass Band (New Zealand)
• Armadale Brass Band - history
• Bands of the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion
• Bands over 100 years old - some notes and details of bands with long lineages
• Bedford (Leigh) Band
• Beginning of The Salvation Army in Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1883
• Birchover Prize Band
• Black Dyke Band History
• Blackhall Youth Band
• Brass Bands of Scotts Hill, Tennessee, (USA)
• Brass Bands on Alston Moor
• Bratley Brass Band
• Brief History of Armadale's Bands
• British Military Band Histories
• Calcutta Salvationist Servicemen's Band 1944/5
• Calverton Colliery Welfare Brass Band
• Cambridge Albion Silver Band
• Chiddingly Brass Band
• City of Ballarat Municipal Brass Band
• City of Edinburgh Band: The Exhibition
• Colwyn Band History
• Consett Salvation Army Band
• Cornwall's Brass Bands
• Crystal Palace Band Historical Synopsis
• Dalkeith & Monktonhall Colliery Band 1920-2000
• Dalton Town Band
• Dorion Brass Band 1923-1927, Canada
• Downton Band
• Earby Brass Band
• Eccles Borough Band
• Epsom Brass Band 1892
• Erie Railroad Bands History
• The First Brass Band (Mount Morris, PA, USA)
• Fochriw Brass Band
• Friendship Cornet Band, New York (1880)
• Gaynes School Upminster Brass Band Reunion
• Girvan Silver Band - as filmed in 1930 at the Girvan Athletics Sports meeting
• Glossop School Brass Band
• Glynneath District Silver Band: 1888-1962
• Gorseinon Citadel Band
• Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band History
• Hanwell Band History 1891-1983
• Harrogate Silver Prize Band, (UK)
• Hartney Brass Band, Manitoba - 1897 (picture)
• Hawthorn Band History
• Hebron Military Band
• Healesville Brass Band, Australia
• Highgate Silver Band and Highgate Salvation Army Band
• Hingham Brass Band, (USA)
• Hokitika Brass Band - Westland, New Zealand - minute book 1869-1874
• Hyde Street Youth Band (Melbourne, Australia)
• Inistioge Brass Band (Eire)
• Irwell Springs Band - part of the Bacup Times website
• Jackson Brass Band ambrotype (1860)
• Lesmahagow bands
• Lexington Cornet Band
• Lilleshall Colliery Brass Band
• Lingdale Bands
• Long Eaton Silver Prize Band History
• Looking Back at a Brass Band Legend - Derek Malcolm Garside & the famous C.W.S. (Manchester) Band
• Lord Lawson School Brass Band - an archive for photo's, music and memories of one of the most successful school brass bands.
• Loughor Excelsior Brass Band
• Lurganure Silver Band
• Marshall City Band, (USA)
• Maybole Burgh Band
• North Bridgewater Brass Band, (USA, 1861)
• Onslow Brass Band (NZ)
• Opotiki's old Band Hall & the Brass Band
• Paddy's Run Cornet Band, (Shandon, Butler County, USA)
• Palmerston North Garrison Band
• Patrick Gilmore and The Salem Brass Band
• Pegswood Colliery Band - 1960 film clip - meet the band at the Bedlington Miners' Picnic
• Penmaenmawr Town Band
• Plymouth Bands - Marshall County Indiana
• Potterspury Excelsior Prize Brass Band
• Redhill Town Band
• Rhyl Silver Band, (UK)
• Royal Buckley Town Band
• Saint John Concert and Cornet Bands (New Brunswick, Canada)
• Sankey Castle Works Band
• Schuchert's Silver Cornet Band - Mural on the west side of the Shivelbine Music Building in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
• Sharon (Temple) Silver Band - Canada
• Shelby Buckeye Band Association - Ohio
• Silverwood Colliery Band
• Staffordshire Band - formerly Aldridge Colliery Silver Prize Band
• Stalybridge Old Band
• Stanley Newmarket Colliery Band
• Stanshawe/Sun Life Band - unofficial historical site
• Stanshawe Band Memories - on-line photo album. Some rare pics indeed!
• Stinchcombe Silver Band History
• Temperance Galas at Lincoln Arboretum
• Thomas family & New Zealand Brass Bands
• Traralgon City Brass Band History (Australia)
• Treorchy Youth Band - 1962
• Wilsonville's Brass Band of 1904 (picture)
• Windsor Colliery Silver Band
• Withnell Fold Mill Band
• Wolverton Town Band History
• Woodborough United Brass Band
• Our Trip to Saxmundham (1908) - Woodbridge SA Band
• Yorkshire Evening Post Band (band no longer exists)
• A Brief History Of The Ystalyfera Public Band

History of Contesting

• Aboriginal Brass Band Contest - New Westminster, British Columbia, 1905
• Another Face of Saddleworth - short description of Whit Friday
• Band Competitions - Letting off Steam: Railways and Musical Life in 19th Century Britain
• Band Contest in Leigh
• Brass Bands at Belle Vue - July 1894
• The British Open Championship Contest, 1853
• The British Open Championship Contest, 1863
• The British Open: 101 Facts and Figures - by Allan Littlemore
• Bugle Band Contest
• Complete Test Piece Database
• The Crystal Palace Challenge (Thousand Guinea) Trophy
• Developments in Contesting
• 50 Things that you never knew about the European Championships
• The First Brass Band Contest
• The First Brass Band Contest at Belle Vue, 5th September 1853
• The First European Championships - Royal Albert Hall, London, Sunday 8th October 1978
• The First National Brass Band Championships in 1900
• Glasgow International Exhibition Contests, 1888
• Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest
• Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest History
• Hardraw Scar Contest History
• Hardraw Scar Contest Recollections
• History of the Spring Belle Vue Contest
• Musical Prize Fight
• Original Brass Band Music for Contests
• Second South Yorkshire Brass Band Contest, 1860
• Whit Friday Brass Band Contests (including latest results)
• Whit Friday Band Contests - a 52 minute documentary produced by Dancing Cat Films

Press Articles on Brass Bands

• Brass neck pays off for brass band
• Brassed off? Try a trip to Grimethorpe
• The day the brass band raved on
• Girl's brass chic wins place with boys in the band
• Heavy metal brass band plays acid house music
• Le brass band - l'autre tunnel sous la manche
• Le brass band? Magnifique!

Other Brass Instrument Historical and Reference Resources

See also People for living and historical figures, including composers.

See also Musical reference, technique and teaching

• The American Brass Band Movement: A Historical Overview by Jon Newsom
• The American Musical Instrument Society
• Antique Sound Workshop - Historical Brass Instruments
• Bad Säckingen Trumpet Museum
• The Band Museum
• Band Music from the Civil War Era
• Bands and Music of the American Civil War Soldiers
• Bands and Musicians of the Civil War
• Bands at the Pan-American Exposition 1901
• Bands of the Pan-American Exposition - (Frank Cipolla)
• Basel Music Museum
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
• Beaver's Brass Bands, Utah
• Bell Engravings pictures of rare, old & new, euphonium & baritone bell engravings
• Bibliography of writings about historic brass instruments
• Brass and Military Music Research - Dr. Friedrich Anzenberger
• Brass Instruments - the Trombone and Cornet
• The Brass Players Museum - Antique Brass Musical Instruments - now open in Springfield, MA. Please contact David Neill, tbn8@aol.com with details of any instruments.
• A Brief History of the Conn Company (1874-present)
• A Brief History of the Military Drum leading to the evolution of Pipe Band Drumming
• Britain and her Military Music
• The British Library National Sound Archive
• British Library guide for music researchers
• British Library Music Collections
• British Military Band Histories
• British Military Music Origins
• BUBL - brass instrument resources
• Christian Mission Historical Association
• C. G. Conn - Brass Instrument Model Numbers And Dates Of Manufacture 1919 - 1965
• Cimcim International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections
• Cité de la Musique- French Museum of Music
• Civil War Bands - by Robert Garofalo and Mark Elrod
• Civil War Music
• Collecting Old Euphoniums
• The Complete Works Of John Philip Sousa
• The Concert Band - information, hints, guidance etc.
• Concert Programmes - Database providing descriptions of concert programme collections held by leading libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland
• The Cornet and Patrick Gilmore - an instrument and its civil war virtuoso
• Cornet Compendium - The History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet
• Cornet Connection - collection of cornets, trumpets, flugelhorns, and a few other things
• Cornets and Quicksteps - Susquehanna County Bands (PA)
• Corno da Caccia
• Deutsches Museum - Brass instruments
• Early Brass links
• Early Military Bands in Britain
• Early Music links
• The Early Music Shop (Bradford & London)
• Early wind instruments - with an excellent collection of early tuba photos
• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
• Edison Company - Early band recording of the Fifth Regiment March - 1889
• Elements of Brass Instrument Construction - National Music Museum
• Elgar Birthplace Museum
• Euphonium Solos - Recordings from the Past
• European Military Music
• Evolution, Physics and Usage of the Wagner Tuba
• Fiske Musical Instrument Museum
• Flugelhorn Ancient & Modern by Stan Lippeatt
• Folklife Museum of Trentino - Brass bands and musical instruments
• The French Connection - Origin and Early Days of Périnet-Valved Bb Cornet Design, by Niles Eldredge
• Galpin Society - for the history of musical instruments
• Geography of Community Bands in Virginia
• Graham Fine Antique Brass Instruments - California, USA
• Historic Brass Society
• Historical Percussion
• Historique Sur Le Cornet A Pistons
• History of Courtois instruments
• History of JW Pepper's - US music publisher and instrument maker/supplier
• History Of The Waites Of Lynn
• History of the Wind Band - by Dr. Stephen L. Rhodes
• Horn Collector - Eric Totman's Vintage Valved Horns Collection
• Horn Supremacy - all about brass instruments
• Horn-u-copia - dedicated to collecting information on obscure, antique, and out of production brass instruments
• Images of Civil War Bands
• The Impact Of Band Music In The 20th Century - by John R. Davis
• Israelite House of David - Musical Traditions
• Israelite House of David Bands
• Instrument Encyclopedia - Musical Heritage Network
• Instruments ŕ Vent Anciens - Early Wind Instruments
• Instrumentation of the Civil War Brass Band
• Iowa Band Museum
• Jean-Baptiste Lemire - composer and conductor (1867-1945)
• J.W. York Company - Research Site: a manufacturer of band instruments in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1882-1971
• The Joe R. & Joella F. Utley Collection of Brass Instruments - National Music Museum
• Library of Congress (American Memory) - Collection of Band Music from the Civil War Era
• Mainly Military - a radio series for the British Forces Broadcasting Service's second channel (BFBS2)
• The March - as a music form
• Metzler Brass - Collecting and restoring vintage brasswinds.
• Militärmusiksamfundet med Svenskt Marscharkiv - Swedish Military Music and March Archive
• Military Music Archive
• Millennium Project - 300 Years of Military Music (1700-2000)
• Museum of Making Music
• Museum of Music History - Budapest
• Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
• Musically Functional Porcelain Bugles
• National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments - University of South Dakota
• The Natural Trumpet Resource
• New South Wales Police Concert Band Centenary 1895-1995
• Olds Central - information on F.E. Olds and Son trumpets and cornets
• Ophicleide.com - dedicated to the performance and study of the Ophicleide
• Ophicleide.de
• Ophicleide Directory
• The Original Sousaphone
• Original vintage horns played by the Olde Towne Brass
• Origins.net - genealogical data for online family history research
• Le Petit Musée des Cuivres de Thoard
• Phil's "Old and Odd" Brass Instrument Gallery
• Pifarri - medieval ensembles
• Proprietary Serial Number Lists
• Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM) - annotated index to 19th-century music periodicals.
• Royal Northern College of Music Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
• Ruysink family and brassband music
• Salvation Army Instrument Making - A Short History
• Saxhorns - the primary brass instrument of civil war military bands
• Schloss Kremsegg Musicial Instrument Museum
• Serpent website
• Shrine to Music Museum - Checklist of European Brass Instruments Made Before 1800
• Some American band march composers
• Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments - Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Studies for the History of Wind Music - Peter Joas (in german)
• TapsBugler.com - Taps and the Bugle
• Town Waits
• Trumpet Collection- Old cornets, flugels, cornopeans for sale
• Tuba Museum
• Vintage Brass - Old Trumpets Cornets Flugelhorns etc.
• Vintage Brasswind Reproductions
• Vintage Cornets - Images and information on the collection and restoration of vintage cornets
• Waits
• Wanhat Wasket - A unique mobile exhibition of Finnish historical brass instruments, uniforms and photographs.

Bandstands History

• Bandstands of the Pan-American Exposition 1901
• Bandstands on Pagoda Lake, Forest Park, St Louis, USA
• Fort Steele Bandstand, Canada
• Hunewell Bandstand Story
• Post Bandstand at Fort Douglas Heritage Commons
• Soham Bandstand
• Southport Bandstand
• Vintage Bandstands

Brass Band Championships Rolls of Honour

• See also Archive of brass band contests photos (Umbrella Photography)
  
  
• British National Brass Band Championships (1900-)
  • First Section Championships (1992-)
  • Second Section Championships (1945-)
  • Third Section Championships (1945-)
  • Fourth Section Championships (1947-)
  • Regional Championships
  • Youth Band Championships

• British Open Brass Band Championships (1853-)
  • Grand Shield
  • Senior Cup
  • Senior Trophy

• All England Masters
• Brass in Concert Championships
• English National Championships
• Scottish Open Brass Band Championships
• Yeovil Entertainment Contest

• European Brass Band Championships (1978-)
• European Open Brass Band Championships (1999-)
• World Brass Band Championships (1968-1971)

• Australian Brass Band Championships
• Belgian Brass Band Championships
• Danish Brass Band Championships
• French National Brass Band Championships
• French Open Brass Band Championships
• Ireland Championships
• Netherlands Brass Band Championships
• New Zealand Brass Band Championships
• North American Brass Band Championships
• NABBA Music Resources - contest results, scores etc.
• Northern Ireland Brass Band Championships
• Norwegian Brass Band Championships
• Swedish Brass Band Championships
• Swiss Brass Band Championships
• U.S. Open Brass Band Championships

World rankings for brass bands - 4BarsRest
Other rankings for overseas brass bands

For further, specific contest results see the archives at 4BarsRest.com and Brass Band World

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