Paper topic?

I'm pretty disappointed in myself for missing class this morning, so I figure the least I can do is think about my paper topic for a few minutes and contribute to my blog.... which for all I know has gone viral. I can't tell just by looking.
Luckily, this period and place contain one of my favorite composers of all time, Gustav Holst! I did an analysis paper on his 1st Suite in Eb for Military Band when I was in undergrad. It was for a class which taught the history of the wind band. That brings me to another possible topic, the British Brass band! Both topics were heavily covered in that undergrad class, and when I have to talk about wind band literature, history, and composers, I feel pretty confident because hardly any other music majors anywhere ever get a class that is all about wind band history. I think I could expand my analysis research on Holst and broaden it to include a few other pieces for additional genres. I would rather do something like that than a biographical paper or the like because my last biographical paper seemed good to me, but it got torn apart. My analyses, however, have always gotten good grades, and I can just write page after page of that stuff without exhausting a single source. It also lets me write more from my own knowledge because it's my analysis. I hate having to take every little thing from a source. Sure it's research, but why write about it if you're not going to introduce anything new? My ideal would be analysis with nothing but the primary source, but it doesn't seem like anyone will ever let me write one of those again.
The other possibility about the British brass bands would be the opposite approach, but it would at least be one that I am comfortable writing about. They played a big part in the music history for Britain, especially during the Victorian era. Musically, there is nothing else that was so uniquely British and that no one else could do as well, except for maybe the Anglican choirs. Still, everyone else has choirs that sing the same anthems, but that's neither here nor there. This topic might work, but I'll need to go back and do more reading on it before I think any more about using it.