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    Contents
    
    Introduction
    
    Part I: The Alto-Tenor-Bass Trombone Trio
    
    Chapter 1: From Beethoven to Schumann
    
    Chapter 2: The Ascent of the Tenor Trombone
    
    Part II: The alto trombone is rarer than it was
    
    Chapter 3: Bruckner
    
    Chapter 4: Brahms
    
    Chapter 5: Dvorak
    
    Coda: The Orchestral Alto Trombone in the 20th Century
    
    Bibliography
    
    Author Biography
    
    Appendices 1 and 2
    
    Appendix 1
    
    Appendix 2
    
    Appendix 3
    
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First Song

22 June 2008 Last Updated on 01 November 2011 Written by Stephen Saunders

Ben van Dijk

Elgar Howarth, a worldwide authority on brass performance and music, wrote this month in the quarterly magazine Brass Herald about the changes happening to brass instruments over the last century. After mentioning how tubas may have balance problems, he didn't seem to have a good word about modern bass trombones. I quote:

Trombones too can prove awkward to contain. I am against the new, extra large bass trombones, finding little of musical value in what they produce. They are nuisance in the symphony orchestra, obtruding too easily, an abomination in the opera pit where they attract an attention better focused on stage, an ridiculous in the confines of the best brass band, which demands a flexibility of approach their gargantuan monstrosity precludes.

In Shining Armour

22 June 2008 Last Updated on 01 November 2011 Written by Andrew Justice

Brett Baker, Paul Woodward, Yorkshire Imperial Travel Band

Everything good seems to come in pairs at the moment - brass recordings are no exception, and this one features two top-flight trombonists on two CDs.

In Shining Armour is a collection of trombone solos and duets drawn from the archives of the secular and Salvation Army brass band worlds, which have overlapped on a more regular basis in recent years.

The soloists need little introduction, as they feature regularly as end-chair men with the Black Dyke Band and have a wealth of banding experience between them - Brett in many of the country's top contesting bands and Paul with numerous SA bands and more latterly as Co-Principal of the Black Dyke Band, appearing together for the first time as joint soloists in this project.

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