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Author Koehler, Elisa

Title Dictionary for the modern trumpet player / Elisa Koehler
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages)
Series Dictionaries for the modern musician
Dictionaries for the modern musician.
Contents Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendix 1. Timeline of trumpet history -- Appendix 2. Gallery of valve diagrams -- Appendix 3. Mute classifications -- Appendix 4. Orchestra and opera audition excerpts
Summary Trumpeters today perform a vast repertoire of musical material spanning 500 years, much of it in a variety of styles and even on a number of related instruments. In A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player, scholar and performer, Elisa Koehler has created a key reference work that addresses all of the instruments in the high brass family, providing ready answers to issues that trumpeters, conductors, and musicians commonly--and sometimes not so commonly--encounter. Drawing on a broad range of scholarly sources, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player includes entries on historic instruments like the cornetto, keyed bugle, and slide trumpet; jazz trumpet techniques; mutes and accessories; and ancient ancestors of the trumpet and related non-Western instruments. In addition to its concise and detailed definitions, this work includes biographies of prominent performers, teachers, instrument makers, and composers of trumpet solo and ensemble literature often omitted from other musical references. Carefully labeled illustrations illuminate the inner workings of various valve mechanisms, allowing readers to visualize the more technical points of high brass instruments. Appendixes include a time line of trumpet history, a survey of valve mechanisms, a list of prominent excerpts from the orchestral and operatic repertoire, and an extensive bibliography. From quick definitions of confusing terms in a musical score to an in-depth overview of trumpet history, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player is an ideal reference for students, professionals, and music lovers [Publisher description]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Trumpet -- Dictionaries
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Woodwinds.
Trumpet
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676440
ISBN 9780810886582
0810886588