Professor Trevor Herbert
job title: Emeritus Professor
research overview: Among several major projects funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy are‘Military Sponsorship of Music in Britain in the Nineteenth Century and its Relationship with the Musical Mainstream’. A project that created a greater and more accurate understanding of military music in the period, and to explained its relationship to wider orbits of art and popular music.Further information is available from the project’s website. And, the AHRC-funded project,‘Cultures of performance among British brass players 1750-1965’, which traced the elements that contribute to a distinctive style of British brass playing. It looked at the relationships between amateur playing and different types of professional music including jazz, orchestral music and military bands. Further information is available from the‘Cultures of Brass’ website. Main Publishers Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press University of Wales Press ABRSM Publishing Yale University Press Routledge Publications Books Authored: Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century, with Helen Barlow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). [In press] The Trombone, London: Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-10095-7 Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music, 224 pp., London: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing), 2001, ISBN 1-86096-236-X (2nd edition in press) An Annotated Handlist of the Robert Minter Collection,http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/minter/, 2008 Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music, American edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-537372-1; ISBN 978-0-19-537373-8 pbk Edited: Tudor Wales(with Gareth Elwyn Jones), 186 pp., University of Wales Press, 1988 (2nd Edition 1990), ISBN 0-7083-0971-2 Wales1880-1914(with Gareth Elwyn Jones), 195 pp., University of Wales Press, 1988, ISBN 0-7083-0967-4 People and Protest 1815-1880(with Gareth Elwyn Jones), 215 p…
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biography: Trevor Herbert was born in Cwmparc, south Wales. He was educated at the Tonypandy Grammar School, and then read music education at St Luke’s College, University of Exeter . He then spent three years at the Royal College of Music as a foundation scholar, where he studied trombone with Arthur Wilson and composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts. He took a BA degree in humanities at the Open University, and a Ph.D. for a thesis on‘The Trombone in England before 1800’. He was awarded the Doctor of Letters (DLitt) of the Open University in 2009. \in 2000 he was made a Fellow of the Royal; College of Music and the Leeds College of Music. He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015 and appointed Porfessor of Music Research at the Royal College of Music in 2017. Between 1969 and 1976 he played trombone with many leading London orchestras and chamber groups, most particularly the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Northern Sinfonia, the Taverner Players, Musica Reservata and the Wallace Collection. He has performed on several major recordings and broadcasts and in concerts throughout the world. In 1976 he joined the staff of the Open University. He continued to perform, and developed research interests in two different areas: the history, repertoires and performance cultures of brass instruments, and the place of music in the cultural history of Wales. He has contributed prolifically toNew Grove II,The Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyandThe Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Among his books areThe Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments(edited with John Wallace) andThe British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History. His bookMusic in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Musicis a widely used reference text. His bookThe Trombone, the first comprehensive cultural and musical history of the instrument, was published by Yale University Press in January 2006. In 2002 he be…
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name: Trevor Herbert
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description: Trevor Herbert was born in Cwmparc, south Wales. He was educated at the Tonypandy Grammar School, and then read music education at St Luke’s College, University of Exeter . He then spent three years at the Royal College of Music as a foundation scholar, where he studied trombone with Arthur Wilson and composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts. He took a BA degree in humanities at the Open University, and a Ph.D. for a thesis on‘The Trombone in England before 1800’. He was awarded the Doctor of Letters (DLitt) of the Open University in 2009. \in 2000 he was made a Fellow of the Royal; College of Music and the Leeds College of Music. He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015 and appointed Porfessor of Music Research at the Royal College of Music in 2017. Between 1969 and 1976 he played trombone with many leading London orchestras and chamber groups, most particularly the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Northern Sinfonia, the Taverner Players, Musica Reservata and the Wallace Collection. He has performed on several major recordings and broadcasts and in concerts throughout the world. In 1976 he joined the staff of the Open University. He continued to perform, and developed research interests in two different areas: the history, repertoires and performance cultures of brass instruments, and the place of music in the cultural history of Wales. He has contributed prolifically toNew Grove II,The Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyandThe Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Among his books areThe Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments(edited with John Wallace) andThe British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History. His bookMusic in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Musicis a widely used reference text. His bookThe Trombone, the first comprehensive cultural and musical history of the instrument, was published by Yale University Press in January 2006. In 2002 he be…
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