The trombone / Trevor Herbert.
Language: English Series: The Yale musical instrument seriesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, cop. 2006Description: 399 s. ill., musiknoterISBN:- 0300100957
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Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B24.923 | 1 | Available | 26201807604 |
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The first fully 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. It explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times. And it reveals the hidden histories of the trombone and its players in different periods and different countries. The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music, but at its place in jazz, popular music