The Trombone
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Trevor Herbert
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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.
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.
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.
“Trombonists have, by and large, proven remarkably inept at documenting their instrument’s history. . . . Thankfully, Trevor Herbert has righted a centuries-old wrong. . . . It is an astounding contribution, drawing on a myriad of sources, and if you are willing to put the time in you will have plenty of stories with which to naughtily wow your colleagues during the next 100 bars’ rest. . . . Much better than anything out there. This is a great book, and I gave a jolly big glissando to the Open University’s professor of music.”—Luke Harley, Classical Music
"This is a great book and one that no trombone player or teacher should be without. Herbert deserves the thanks of trombonists everywhere."—Music Teacher
"The Trombone is an exceptional single source on the instrument. . . . This book is essential for all music collections; it will benefit any library or individual user with an interest in trombone methods and history."—Donald Babcock, Fontes Artis Musicae
"Herbert has, I believe, succeeded wonderfully well in writing a book that is rigorously researched, academic and authoritative, but is also extensively illustrated, eminently readable and contained within such a wide musical history, social and cultural context that it should entertain and inform readers well beyond a limited 'market' of trombonists and musicologists."—Brass Band World
Received rating of "Outstanding" from the 2007 University Press Books Committee
ISBN: 9780300235753
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
336 pages, x
60 b/w + 12 color illus.
60 b/w + 12 color illus.
