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A FIRST GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERS

by Philip L. Scowcroft

To follow my short studies of Percy Fletcher, Frederic Curzon, Haydn Wood, John Ansell, Albert Ketelbey and Montague Phillips, (* Newsletter Nos: Fletcher (39); Curzon (35); Ansell (39); Ketelbey (39), Phillips (39).

Wood is yet to come) here are notes on a dozen others who may be reckoned also as light music composers; to avoid any possibility of a favoured order of merit among people so different, I present these alphabetically.

Charles Ancliffe(1880-1952) was a bandmaster's son, so it was natural for him to train at the RMSM, Kneller Hall and to become a bandmaster himself, first of the South Wales Borderers, then of the Scarborough Military Band.

His creative output reflects this to a degree, with marches like Ironsides, a rousing piece which I heard recently in a brass band version, Castles in Spain and the popular The Liberators, but he is best remembered for his waltzes.

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