Bruce P. Gleason is Professor of Music History and Music Education at the University of St. Thomas. He is a U.S. Army veteran musician and the author of Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums: Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820-1940 and Cold War Cadence: A Military Musician's Berlin Memoir, 1988-1991. He has published more than 50 articles and other scholarly contributions.
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List of Illustrations Preface 1. Middle Eastern and European Traditions 2. European Battlefield Trumpets, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries 3. European Court Traditions 4. European Warfare and Campaign Life 5. Military Kettledrums 6. Capturing Kettledrums 7. Transitioning from Utility to Art 8. The Nineteenth Century and the Birth of the Mounted Band 9. Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Great Britain and the European Continent 10. From Battlefield to Parade Ground: The Transformation Complete Appendix: En Selle, Marche pour Fanfare de Cavalerie Bibliography Index
"This is the gateway source of anyone wanting to study horse-mounted wind band culture."-Paul Niemisto, Vice President, International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music "Drawing on decades of archival and field research, as well as his own career as a military musician, Gleason presents a detailed account of how mounted bands have functioned in warfare, ceremony, and culture. . . . [Gleason] situates mounted bands as part of the instrumental canon in the development of both military and instrumental music history, even as mechanization in the twentieth century brought the tradition to an end."-Jim M. Sullivan, Arizona State University