Britain’s brass bands are older than previously ... led to a dramatic proliferation of British military bands, Dr O’Keeffe ...

Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets ... led to a dramatic proliferation of British military bands, Dr O’Keeffe says. A brass band plays during a press tour at the ...

Research finds brass bands were not all linked to industry - veterans of the Napoleonic Wars played an important role.

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

suggests that the established chronology of popular music-making requires revision. While Trevor Herbert has portrayed the British brass bands of the 1850s as a novel musical movement which owed ...

The findings by a University of Cambridge historian challenge the widely held belief that brass ... British military bands, Dr O’Keeffe says. By 1814, more than 20,000 people who played ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had ...

The story of the origins of Britain's brass bands needs to be ... in the significance of military music during the Napoleonic Wars. "I worked at a British fort from the war of 1812 and played ...