Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Lip-vibrated instruments of the ancient and non-western world
- 2 How brass instruments work
- 3 Design, technology and manufacture before 1800
- 4 Brass instruments in art music in the Middle Ages
- 5 The cornett
- 6 ‘Sackbut’: the early trombone
- 7 The trumpet before 1800
- 8 The horn in the Baroque and Classical periods
- 9 Design, technology and manufacture since 1800
- 10 Keyed brass
- 11 The low brass
- 12 Brass in the modern orchestra
- 13 Brass bands and other vernacular brass traditions
- 14 Playing, learning and teaching brass
- 15 The post-classical horn
- 16 Jazz, improvisation and brass
- 17 Brass solo and chamber music from 1800
- 18 Frontiers or byways? Brass instruments in avant-garde music
- Glossary
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Lip-vibrated instruments of the ancient and non-western world
- 2 How brass instruments work
- 3 Design, technology and manufacture before 1800
- 4 Brass instruments in art music in the Middle Ages
- 5 The cornett
- 6 ‘Sackbut’: the early trombone
- 7 The trumpet before 1800
- 8 The horn in the Baroque and Classical periods
- 9 Design, technology and manufacture since 1800
- 10 Keyed brass
- 11 The low brass
- 12 Brass in the modern orchestra
- 13 Brass bands and other vernacular brass traditions
- 14 Playing, learning and teaching brass
- 15 The post-classical horn
- 16 Jazz, improvisation and brass
- 17 Brass solo and chamber music from 1800
- 18 Frontiers or byways? Brass instruments in avant-garde music
- Glossary
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments , pp. 273 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997