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British Army music in the interwar years

Culture, performance and influence
Buch | Softcover
366 Seiten
2020
The Cloister House Press (Verlag)
978-1-913460-05-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
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This book explains how British Army bands in the interwar years were a primary stakeholder in the music industry. Approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen served in the British Army setting the standard for training and performance in the music industry.
There were approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British army in the interwar years. This was about a third of the total number of musicians in the music profession in the United Kingdom, making the War Office the largest single employer of professional musicians in the country. British army musicians were a key stakeholder in the music industry in the United Kingdom, but also farther afield, where it made a significant contribution to the maintenance of British imperial authority.
To sustain the large number of bands, residential institutions provided young boys for recruitment into the army as bandsmen and, as a consequence, the army set the standard for musical training and performance. The music industry relied upon the existence of army bands for its business and the military played a significant part in the adoption of an international standard of musical pitch. Nevertheless, there was a tempestuous relationship between army bands and the BBC, as well as the recording industry as a whole.
Using untapped sources and original material, Major David Hammond reveals the role and soft power influence of British army music in the interwar years.

David Hammond was Educated at the London College of Music and York and Cambridge Universities, and as a performer with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, he has had a diverse career, taking him across the world as a French horn player and conductor. After four years in Southern Africa working for the Bophuthatswana Arts Council, his subsequent time in the British army saw him live in Germany and Gibraltar, serve in the Balkans, Falkland Islands, Canada, Cyprus, Kenya, and lead soldiers on Operations in Afghanistan. With the Household Cavalry, David led the mounted band on the Queen's Birthday Parade in 2014, and he continued to work in the state arena as Director of Music, The Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra, responsible for the music at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and Holyrood Palace for Investitures, State Banquets, and other royal events. As an army reservist David is now Director of Music of The Band of The Royal Yeomanry (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry). As a civilian he is a French horn player and conductor, and a director of the management consultancy Get Psyched Up! David has five degrees and holds Fellowships from the principal British music conservatoires. Following on from an MBA with the Open University, David's PhD research combined his interests in music, strategy, and history, and forms the basis of this book. David has participated in sports throughout his career, notably football and rugby, and has also enjoyed 'adventure' travelling - such as canoeing on the Zambezi and completing the Trans-Siberian Railway. He now loves spending his spare time on the Essex coast with his wife, Kate, their teenage twin daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, and two large labradoodles.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1: Culture
Chapter 2: The gentlemen of the regiment: Musicians in the regular army
Chapter 3: 'Breaking in' the young hands:
The dependence on band boys
Part 2: Performance
Chapter 4: Seaside, ceremonial, and an unhappy union: Bands and live performance
Chapter 5: A clear and homogenous sound:
Performance practice and recording
Chapter 6: 'Tonic' music and discord with the BBC: Repertoire and broadcasting
Part 3: Influence
Chapter 7: Kneller hall and the pitch battle with the War Office
Chapter 8: Punching above their weight: Soft power influence of British army bands overseas
Chapter 9: The youghal 'outrage': Political appropriation of military bands and the founding
of the Irish Free State
Appendix 1: Broadcasts (excluding outside broadcasts) by staff bands from January 1932 to September 1933
Appendix 2: Colonel Somerville's list to the BBC of army bands graded 'outstanding' by Kneller Hall in 1933.
Appendix 3: Colonel Jervis's 'order of merit' army band list sent to the BBC in 1934, notable for its absence of
staff bands.
Appendix 4: Walton O'Donnell's BBC audition reports for three bands in Northern Ireland.
Appendix 5: Internal 1941 BBC memo rejecting the Kneller Hall band grading system.
Appendix 6: Army Council Instruction - 544: Pitch of Instruments of Army Bands
Appendix 7: An anonymous humorous poem about the change to low pitch published in The Leading Note in 1929
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 72 b&w
Verlagsort Gloucester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 514 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-913460-05-3 / 1913460053
ISBN-13 978-1-913460-05-1 / 9781913460051
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