The Cambridge companion to brass instruments /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
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| Description: | xviii, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge companions to music |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2787138 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustration
- Note on the contributor
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Nomenclatures
- Introduction
- 1. Lip-vibrated instruments of the ancient and non-western world
- 2. How brass instrument work
- 3. Design, technology and manufacture before 1800
- 4. Bnass instruments in art music in the Middle Ages
- 5. The cornett
- 6. ÆSackbufÆ: the early trombone
- 7. The trumpet before 1800
- 8. The horn in the Baroque and Classical periods
- 9. Design, technology and rnanufacture since l800
- 10. Keyed brass
- 11. The low brass
- 12. Brass in the modern orchestra
- l3. Brass bands and other vernacular brass traditions
- 14. Playing, learning and teaching brass
- 15. The post-classica1 horn
- 16. Jazz, improvisation and brass
- 17. Brass solo and chamber music from l800
- 18. Frontiers or byways? Brass instrurnents in avant-garde music
- Glossary
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
