Introduction. 1. Music in Nineteenth-Century Brtain. 2. Wind Instruments and the Growth of the Amateur Band. 3. Contests from 1860; the 'Great Triumvirate', J. H. Iles. 4. Unpublished Nineteenth-Century Brass Band Music and the Development of Instrumentation. 5. Published Brass Band Music in the Nineteenth Century. 6. Into the Twentieth Century: The National Brass Band Championships. 7. Principal Arranger/Composers and their Music. 8. Popular Band Music in the Twentieth Century. 9. A Ne...