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Table of Contents:

• The instrument: its parts and their development
• Trombone technique
• The origins of the trombone
• Players and cultures in the later Renaissance
• Performances and repertoires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• Decline, survival and rehabilitation: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Didacticism and the idea of virtuosity
• The trombone in the modern orchestra
• Valve trombones and other nineteenth-century introductions
• Popular music
• The Moravians and other popular religions
• Orchestral trombone playing in the age of sound recordings
• Jazz
• Modernism, postmodernism and retrospection
• Appendix 1: Surviving instruments from before 1800
• Appendix 2: Centres of trombone repertoire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Appendix 3: Slide trombone methods: an indicative list
• Appendix 4: Valve trombone methods: an indicative list
• Appendix 5: Orchestral trombone sections, c. 1780-c. 1930
• Appendix 6: C.G. Conn endorsements, c.1928.

Author/Creator:

Herbert, Trevor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The trombone [by Herbert, T.]

Related Series:

Yale musical instrument series

Subjects:

Trombone

Trombone — History

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-386) and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML965 .H47 2006

ISBNs:

0300100957 (hbk.)
9780300100952 (hbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005930979

OCLC Numbers:

62225136