Military Music and Its Story

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We us t complim ent t h e auth or on t h e manner in wh ich h e h as plac ed th e materi al h e has e h ed s o f or in h h h e bo k ha b un art , al th e exce llent s tyle w ic t o s een ” produced. T h e M us ical R ecor d s s h s o k b e h nk ec e ed ay T i w r will t a fully r iv . ” W1 1 1 e not o t o m s c n b n h e r b app al nly u i ia s , ut eve t o t e g ne al pu lic. T h e M il it ary M ail says A volum e wh ich sh oul d g o a l ong w e towards b d n u h h s o of B i s h M s h h is m u c needed uil i g p t at i t ry rit Military u ic w ic , and wh h w e sh o d s a h e M r. F l fi ed ic ul y ( armer ) is ful ly qua i t o write . LO N DON : WILLIAM REEVE S . 83 CHARING CR OS S ROAD . VA C. T o M y Friend R E Y N L D A . O S T he R ank and File Army Bands . FO R EW O R D . 0 write a general history of military music , one embracing a continuous and coherent account o f no o its progress, is easy task ; for the simple reas n o that its devel pment has not been general , but has pro c e f f e ded on di ferent lines in di ferent countries . The growing interest in the subject manifested in Britain during recent years is perhaps not the least encouraging feature n oticeable in connecti on with th e s read o f e - d p general culture, the b st wind ban com h imations now attracting vast audiences on concert platforms f ormerly considered the exclusive monopoly o f the grand orchestra . There is on all sides, an acquaintance with music , vocal or instrumental : and whilst much of this may be of only an elementary character, there is , and that o f m re widely di fused than is perhaps generally known , a very high standard of musical culture indeed abroad . F vi OREWORD . - During the past hal f century , literature in all other “ branches of musical art has grown enormously and is still be ing poured out at a bewil dering rate— yet works of treating of military music, o f its history , or its o theory, are conspicuously rare, and may be c unted almost on the fingers of one hand . de True, the existing traces of its beginnings and velo m ent p are meagre, and even what is to be gleaned on the subject is exceedingly difficult of access . The reader need only n ote the authorities cited in the — present volume all rare , or comparatively rare, works — in order to satisfy himsel f that the story of military music is only to be found strewn about among the pages o f history in what might appe ar to be a loose and hap z ha ard manner . O ne has to seek among the highways and by -ways o offi ‘ of literature for data ; memoirs and autobi graphy , cial o f documents and anecdote, annals and records all t kinds, doings in hemselves entirely unconnected with n the subj ect of music , but yet fur ishing some trace, m some tiny fragment of infor ation, helpful to the author . His materials are scattered over several cen t uries ; involving much painstaking research, much diving into dusty and almost forgotten corners, much , wading through ponderous tomes, which in the end yield perhaps one scant paragraph of any practical use i to the inqu rer, nay, sometimes even rewarding him with nothing for his pains .

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