Gleason Publications

Books

Gleason, B.P. (2024). Cold War Cadence: A Military Musician's Berlin Memoir, 1988 – 1991: A

Memoir. Edina, Minnesota: Calumet Editions, LLC. .

Gleason, B.P. (2016). Sound the trumpet, beat the drums: Horse-Mounted bands of the U.S. Army,

1820 – 1940. Norman Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma.

Music History Refereed Journal Articles

Gleason, B. P. (2015). Military music in the United States: A historical examination of

performance and training. Music Educators Journal, 101(3), 37 – 46.

Gleason, B. P. (2011, Winter). Military music in the 106th Cavalry: The mounted band

of the Chicago Black Horse Troop, 1929 – 1940. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,

104(4), 301 – 335.

Gleason, B.P. (2009). The mounted band and field musicians of the U.S. 7th Cavalry

during the time of the Plains Indian Wars. Historic Brass Society Journal, 21, 69 – 91.

Gleason, B.P. (2009, April). Cavalry and court trumpeters and kettledrummers from

the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Galpin Society Journal, 62, 31 – 54.

Gleason, B.P. (2008, April). Cavalry trumpet and kettledrum practice from the time of

the Celts and Romans to the Renaissance. Galpin Society Journal, 61, 231 – 239.

Gleason, B. P. (2006). A chronicle of the pre-World War II cavalry bands of the U.S. National Guard—with

recollections of those who rode. Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and

Ensembles, 13, 17 – 30.

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Gleason, B.P. (2006, April). U.S. mounted bands and cavalry field musicians in the Union Army during the

Civil War—background, duties, and training. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education,

27(2), 102 – 119.

Gleason, B. P. (2005, Winter). Horse-mounted military musicians in battle and on parade. MHQ: The

Quarterly Journal of Military History, 17(2), 80 – 83.

Gleason, B.P. (2003). Horse-mounted military musicians, an overview. Journal of Band Research, 39(1), 1 –

34.

Gleason, B.P. (1996, January). A guide to teaching Beethoven's marches. Music Educators Journal, 82(4),

17 – 19, 50.

Gleason, B.P. (1991). A history of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band, 1878 – 1939. Journal of Band

Research, 27(1), 16 – 29.

Music History Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Gleason, B. P. (2009). Military music in the U.S. heartland: 113th Cavalry of the Iowa

National Guard. Band International, The Journal of the International Military Music Society, 31(3),

96 – 99.

Gleason, B. P. (2005, December), The mounted bands of the North-West Mounted Police. Band

International, Journal of the International Military Music Society, 27(3), 99 – 103, 120.

Gleason, B. P. (2005, September). Piping on horseback—the band of the Canadian

Mounted Rifles. Piping Times, 57(12), 37 – 43.

Gleason, B. P. (2004). Pipe band of the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. Military Collector & Historian, Journal

of the Company of Military Historians, 56(4), 279 – 282.

Gleason, B.P. (2003, March). A history of the world’s horse-mounted musicians. Band International, the

Journal of the International Military Music Society, 25, 11 – 17, 35.

Gleason, B.P. (1992). A week in October. TUBA Journal, 19(3), 44 – 46.

Music History Magazine Articles

Gleason, B. P. (2007). Mounted musicians of the Union Army in the Civil War. North & South, The Official

Magazine of the Civil War Society, 10(3), 46 – 53.

Gleason, B. P. (2004, February). Mounted musicians. National Guard Magazine, 58(2), 26 – 29.

Gleason, B.P. (2003). Military musicians, a gift from the east, 1350 – 1700. Renaissance Magazine, 8(4), 46 –

50.

Gleason, B.P. (2002, Fall). Musicians on horseback. St. Thomas Magazine, 30 – 33.

Gleason, B.P. (2000). Current Swedish and French cavalry bands. International Military Music Society

Canadian Branch Newsletter, 22(1), 2 – 3.

Gleason, B.P. (1992). The Berlin wind orchestra: An interview with Gunter Krause.

Winds, 7(1), 27 – 30.

Gleason, B.P. (1990, May/June). Inside a military ceremony. BDGuide, 51 – 52.

Book Chapters/Conference Proceedings

Gleason, B.P. (2008). The mounted band of the Chicago Black Horse Troop: Military music in the 106th

Cavalry, 1929 – 1940, In Bernhard Habla (Ed) Kongressberichte Northfield/Minnesota, USA 2006,

Tutzing, Germany: Hans Schneider, 135 – 162.

Gleason, B.P. (2016). The nineteenth century and the birth of the mounted band, In Bernhard Habla (Ed) Kongressberichte Hammelburg, Deutschland 2014, Tutzing, Germany: Margraf Publishers, 77 – 98.

Encyclopedia Entry

Gleason, B. P. (2013). Bands and music. In K. Piehler (Ed.), Encylopedia of military science. Newbury Park,

CA: Sage Publications.

Book Review

Gleason, B.P. (2014). [Review of the book, Music and the British military in the long nineteenth century, by

Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow, published by Oxford University Press, 2013]. Historic Brass Society

Journal, 26, 88 – 91.

BRUCE P. GLEASON

Encyclopedia Entry

Gleason, B. P. (2013). Bands and music. In K. Piehler (Ed.), Encylopedia of military science. Newbury Park,

CA: Sage Publications.