The trombone : its history and music, 1697-1811 / David M. Guion.
| Author/creator | Guion, David M., 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Gordon and Breach, ©1988. |
| Description | xvii, 333 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Musicology: a book series ; v. 6 Musicology (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 6. ^A174694 |
| Contents | The trombone and its music in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries: an introduction. The seventeenth century. The instrument ; The music -- The nineteenth century. The instrument ; The music -- Writings about the trombone in eighteenth-century treatises, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. Daniel Speer: Grund-richtiger ... Untericht der musicalischen Kunst (1697) ; Sebastien de Brossard: Dictionnaire de Musique (1703) ; Johann Mattheson: Das neu-eroffnete Orchestre (1713) ; Friedrich Erhard Niedt: Muscalischer Handleitung (1721) ; Filippo Bonanni: Gabinetto armonico (1722) ; Ephraim Chambers: Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728) ; Johann Walther: Musikalisches Lexikon and Johann F. B. C. Majer: Museum musicum theoretico practicum (both 1732) ; Johann Christoph and Johann David Stossel: Kurtzgefasstes musicalisches Lexicon (1737) ; Johann Philipp Eisel: Musicus autodidactos, oder der sich selbst informirende Musicus (1738) ; James Grassineau: A Musical Dictionary (1740) ; Johann Heinrich Zedler: Grosses vollstandiges Universal-Lexicon (1741) ; Giovanni Battista Martini: Storia della musica (1761) ; Johann Samuel Halle: Werkstatte der heutigen Kunst (ca. 1764) ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne ... (1765) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771) ; William Tans'ur: The Elementss of Musick Display'd (1772) ; Jean Benjamin de la Borde: Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne (1780) ; Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Anweisung zur Composition (1790) ; Othon Vandenbroek: Traite general de tous les instrumens a vent a l'usage des compositeurs (ca. 1794) ; Joos Verschuere-Reynvaan: Muzijkaal Kunst-Woordenboek (1795) ; Heinrich Koch: Musikalischse Lexikon (1802) ; Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1784-85, published 1806) ; John Marsh: Hints to Young Composers of Instrumental Music (1807) ; Charles Burney: Cyclopaedia (ed. Abraham Rees) (1819) ; Joseph Frohlich: Vollstandige theoretisch-pracktische Musikschule (1811) -- An overview of the trombone in the eighteenth century (excluding France). America. Bethlehem ; Salem -- Austria and Bohemia. Vienna ; Other musical centers -- England. Theater music ; Military music -- Germany. Town bands ; The decline of the trombone ; Music with trombone parts -- Italy ; Russia ; Sweden -- The trombone and trombone music in France. Prerevolutionary music. Francois-Joseph Gossec ; Jean-Joseph Rodolphe ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Other prerevolutionary operas ; Players and playing conditions ; The revolution and after. Revolutionary music ; Revolutionary and postrevolutionary opera ; Table: Operas during and after the French revolution with trombone parts -- The trombone in choral music. Johann Joseph Fux: Missa Corporis Christi (K. 10) ; Johann Sebastian Bach: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht (BWV 118) ; George Frederick Handel: Saul ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Waisenhauskirche Mass (K. V. 47a [139]) ; Franz Joseph Haydn: Die sieben letzten Worte (Hob. XX:2) ; Ludwig van Beethoven: Christus am Oelberge (op. 86) -- The trombone in opera. Accuracy of printed scores ; Opera in Vienna. Orfeo ed Euridice ; Don Giovanni -- France: Before the revolution. Tarare ; Roland -- France: During and after the revolution. Romeo e Juliette ; Leheman -- The trombone in the concert orchestra, Ignace Pleyel: Three symphonies ; Joachim Eggert: Third Symphony ; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fifth and Sixth Symphonies -- The trombone in military music. Harmony ; Orchestration ; Range and rhythm -- Appendix 1. Authors cited in Zedler's Grosses vollstandiges Universal-Lexikon ; Appendix 2. Musical examples in Frohlich's "Posaunenschule". |
| Abstract | Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning to the middle of the seventeenth century, and then from Mozart to the present, few deal with the intervening years. This book reproduces the texts from two dozen treatises, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, along with English translations, published between 1697 and 1811. It provides an overview of the use of the trombone during that time in America and seven European countries and examines its use in choral music, opera, symphonic music and military music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 311-322) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 87019678 |
| ISBN | 2881242111 (France) |