In this readable, well-researched history, a distinguished authority on musical instruments offers a concise survey of the evolution of trumpets, trombones, bugles, cornets, French horns, tubas, and other Brass wind instruments.
The result is a scholarly yet accessible account that remains an indispensable resource for any Brass player or music historian..
The text is supplemented by over 140 black-and-white illustrations as well as 48 music examples.
Baines documents the various states of the evolution of Brass instruments with immense learning and a wealth of detail.
In this extensively revised and updated edition, Mr.
In the nineteenth century, the advent of valved instruments ushered in yet another new era.
During the medieval period, a large number of curved instruments or horns of various shapes and sizes developed, including trumpets, looped horns, the sackbut (forerunner of the trombone) and others, while the Renaissance saw the introduction of the slide trumpet.
The story begins with such primitive contrivances as bark trumpets, conch shells and perforated animal horns, bronze trumpets used by the ancient Danes and Celts, large Roman horns, and other devices.
In this readable, well-researched history, a distinguished authority on musical instruments offers a concise survey of the evolution of trumpets, trombones, bugles, cornets, French horns, tubas, and other Brass wind instruments
