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Brass instruments - POD TITLE

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Klappentext THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BRASS INSTRUMENTS provides an overview of the history of brass instruments! and their technical and musical development. Much of the volume is devoted to the way brass instruments have been used in classical music! but there are also important contributions on the ancient world! non-Western music! vernacular and popular traditions! and the rise of jazz. 42 photos. Zusammenfassung Edited by two of the most respected names in the world of brass performance and scholarship! this new Cambridge Companion provides an invaluable overview of the history! and technical and musical development of the brass instrument. Covers classical music! non-western music and jazz. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Nomenclatures; Introduction Trevor Herbert and John Wallace; 1. Lip-vibrated instruments of the ancient and non-western world Margaret Sarkissian; 2. How brass instruments work Arnold Myers; 3. Design, technology and manufacture before 1800 Robert Barclay; 4. Brass instruments in art music in the Middle Ages Keith Polk; 5. The cornett Bruce Dickey; 6. 'Sackbut': the early trombone Trevor Herbert; 7. The trumpet before 1800 Edward H. Tarr; 8. The horn in the Baroque and Classical periods Thomas Hiebert; 9. Design, technology and manufacture since 1800 Arnold Myers; 10. Keyed brass Ralph T. Dudgeon; 11. The low brass Clifford Bevan; 12. Brass in the modern orchestra Simon Wills; 13. Brass bands and other vernacular brass traditions Trevor Herbert; 14. Playing, learning and teaching brass Ralph T. Dudgeon, Phillip Eastop, Trevor Herbert and John Wallace; 15. The post-classical horn Robert Evans; 16. Jazz, improvisation and brass Roger T. Dean; 17. Brass solo and chamber music from 1800 John Wallace; 18. Frontiers or byways? Brass instruments in avant-garde music Simon Wills; Glossary; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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Authors Trevor Herbert, John Wallace
Assisted by Jonathan Cross (Editor), Trevor Herbert (Editor), John Wallace (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.10.1997
 
EAN 9780521565226
ISBN 978-0-521-56522-6
Dimensions 168 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
Series Print On Demand
Cambridge Companions to Music
Print on Demand
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music

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