Abstract
Abstract In 1928 Gustav Holst composed A Moorside Suite for brass band. This work was important as the first composition expressly written for brass band by a ‘major’ English composer, and it is significant that it was the test piece at the National Championship at Crystal Palace that year. Subsequently, the inter-war years saw brass band works by Elgar, Bantock, Howells, Bliss, and others. At last art-music composers were taking the brass band seriously.
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