The Trombone

This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries.
The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.


Author: Trevor Herbert
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780300235753
ISBN10: 0300235755
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Musical Instruments | Brass
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Music | Musical Instruments | Woodwinds

About the Author
Trevor Herbert is professor of music at the Open University. Formerly a professional trombone player, he is the author of The British Brass Band: A Musical and Cultural History and The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments.

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