| Description |
xvi, 399 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Yale musical instrument series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-386) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Trombone.
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Trombone -- History.
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| ISBN |
0300100957 (hbk.) |
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9780300100952 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 291399231 |
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YDXCP 100407421 |
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NZ1 10545214 |
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