ABSTRACT
Printed music probably reached relatively few brass bands, most of which played from hand-written arrangements. The W. H. Hawkes and Jules Riviere partnership of 1865 began with the founding of The Musical Progress, a journal which specialized in military and, some years later, brass band music. With the proliferation of bands and band functions, the need for a ready supply of music and an expanding repertoire was growing. The increase in the number of publishers who included band music in their catalogues was certainly part of the solution, but whilst many publishers were based in London, the majority of successful amateur bands were in the North and the Midlands. The most significant development in the publishing of brass band music during the early and mid-1890s–outside the activities of Wright & Enoch Round–was a new journal published by Hawkes. By the late 1890s there were some 20 publishers of brass band music.
