Discoursing Sweet Music
Subtitle: Brass Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252016615
Subjects: Music Of The 19th Century; Music; Sociology; General; Genres & Styles - Chamber; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; History & Criticism - General; 19th century; 20th century; Bands (Music); History; Pennsylvania; Wayne County
First sentence: Close your eyes and you can almost see them-the blue uniforms, the brass buttons, the silver cornets, the bandstand in the courthouse square, the still summer evenings under the maple trees.