Howard Snell Music

Howard Snell

Howard Snell's Music

This website has two main strands.

For those of classical music orientation the HOWARD SNELL MUSIC CATALOGUE is the link to follow.

For those whose interests lie in the world of Brass Bands the RAKEWAY MUSIC CATALOGUE is the direction to take.

NOTES about NOTES is the place for material on music performance where I will develop new subject matter on playing (having been a player), conducting (ditto), writing and arranging (ditto) as well as any else that might be of interest.

By the way...

COMPLETE NOW in NOTES about NOTES is an introductory article about CONDUCTING. This will soon be followed by some ideas and possibly non-ideas, some answers followed by questions, that are intended to provoke the reader's own thoughts. No predigested-baby-food lecturing, I promise.

NEWS and VIEWS is just that. As well as introducing new publications from time to time, there will be some contributions from other writers.

The ARCHIVE will contain older material, where everyone can see how right and/or wrong one can be over time.

DOWNLOADS of something unusual or new will appear occasionally as pdfs.

I have included in NEWS and VIEWS a few short paragraphs on the problem of FOCAL DYSTONIA with a link to a press article that may have some value to sufferers from this problem.

HOWARD SNELL MUSIC is obvious, but why, what, is RAKEWAY?

At the time I started to publish music, my wife Angela and I, plus four children who are now thoroughly middle-aged, lived in rural Staffordshire, as middle England as it is possible to get.

Our house was at the junction of a Roman road... part of it was in fact built over the road... and an ancient british, pre-celtic road. The road is in use to this day, only slightly updated. In old English it was called the Rake-Way. It seemed a suitable choice especially with its history and its character of always trying to follow the highest ground.

We lived there for many years before moving on to something completely different...