In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion...
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A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles that include brass...
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Nicholas Childs (category British brass bands)
the Tredegar Junior Band and later the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. At age 16, Childs became the Welsh and British Euphonium Champion....
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Tuba (redirect from Brass bass)
called a tubaist, a tubist, or simply a tuba player. In a British brass band or military band, they are known as bass players. Prussian Patent No. 19 was...
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Band Brass Band (British) Brass Band (Salvation Army) Christian band Church Worship band Community band Concert band College marching bands Corps of drums...
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The River City Brass Band (River City Brass, RCB) is a modified British-style brass band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The twenty-eight-piece ensemble...
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As part of the British brass band tradition of contesting, bands are split into five main brass band sections in the United Kingdom. These are the Championship...
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Rastrick Brass Band is a British brass band formed in 1881. The band is based in Brighouse, in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. The band is known...
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The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a brass band, based in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. It was formed in 1917, as a leisure activity for the workers...
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a more mellow tone quality than the cylindrical bore brass instruments. The "British brass band" group of instruments fall into this category. This includes...
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amateur band which primarily performs brass band literature in the style and tradition of the British brass bands dating back to the early nineteenth century...
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Tori Amos. In 2014, the band won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for a record 23rd time, and the British Open Championship for another...
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James Shepherd (musician) (redirect from James Shepherd Versatile Brass)
1960 to 1963, then the Black Dyke Band from 1963 to 1973, before forming a brass ensemble, James Shepherd Versatile Brass, which he led until 1989. He was...
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The British-style brass band contains only brass and percussion instruments. They contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classification 423 (brass instruments)...
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The Smoky Mountain Brass Band (SMBB) is a British-style brass band based in Asheville, North Carolina. The band, which consists of both professional and...
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Euphonium (category Concert band instruments)
transposing instrument in B♭. In British brass bands, it is typically treated as a treble-clef instrument, while in American band music, parts may be written...
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glockenspiels and in some bands wind and brass instruments. British style brass bands have the same positioning as the British Army brass bands as they are composed...
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Tenor horn (category Brass instruments)
commonly used in British brass bands, and Mexican banda music whereas the French horn tends to take the corresponding parts in concert bands and orchestras...
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member of the elite of brass bands. In 1906 it achieved the "double" by winning the British Open brass band championships and the British National championships...
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Youth Brass Band (TYBB) a British-style brass band located in Raleigh, North Carolina that was formed in 1997 as a youth component of the Triangle Brass Band...
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Herbert, The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 4-5. T. Herbert, The British Brass Band: a Musical...
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Herb Alpert (redirect from Tijuana Brass Band)
(born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sometimes called "Herb Alpert and the TJB") in the 1960s...
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today. The advances made by Adolphe Sax were soon followed by the British brass band movement, which exclusively adopted the saxhorn family of instruments...
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Brassed Off is a 1996 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mark Herman and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor...
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of Army Music (British Army), and the Royal Air Force Music Services (Royal Air Force). British style brass bands and carnival bands were then and are...
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Georgia Brass Band was conceived by co-founders Joe Johnson and Christopher Priest in the spring of 1999. It is a traditional British brass band. The band performed...
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Rockville Brass Band, formed in 1976, is one of the oldest competing British-style brass band in the US. It is located in Rockville, Maryland, and like...
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The Cory Band is one of the oldest and best known award-winning brass bands in the world based in Treorchy of the Welsh Valleys, Britain. Ranked the world’s...
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Foden's Band (originally Foden's Motor Works Band, and variants with sponsors' names) is a brass band from Sandbach in Cheshire. The band derives its...
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The Fairey Band is a brass band based in Heaton Chapel in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The band has achieved fame in modern music circles with its appearances...
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