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1 online resource (xx, 338 pages) : illustrations, music |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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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. |
| ISBN |
9780300178166 (electronic bk.) |
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0300178166 (electronic bk.) |
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9780300112306 |
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0300112300 |
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