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The trumpet /

In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its family into art music, and i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, John, 1949-
Otros Autores: McGrattan, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, Ã2011.
Colección:Yale musical instrument series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations, music examples and tables
  • Foreword / Sir Peter Maxwell Davies C.B.E.
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world
  • 2. The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique
  • 3. The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600
  • 4. The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • 5. Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • 6. Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach
  • 7. France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • 8. The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel
  • 9. The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • 10. The 'Bach revival', 'Bach' trumpets, and the advent of the piccolo trumpet
  • 11. Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900
  • 12. Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900
  • Appendix: A selective list of twentieth-century solo works
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.