1. "The Improved Trombone": an essay in Edwardian ingenuity
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...he secondary slide could be positioned within or alongside the main one - a profoundly awkward idea in terms of weight distribution, but one that had presumably had to be covered off to protect the...

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4. God's Trombones
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... Trombone: Its History and Music 1697-1811, David Guion has noted: Nothing comparable in terms of trombone solos exists between Albrechtsberger's concerto, written in 1769, and Beetho...

5. The Soprano Trombone Swindle
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...by Praetorius. But something strange has happened with Praetorius' Alt oder Discant Posaun. The terms no longer agree, and one instrument has become two: The "alto or descant tro...

6. Tip From The Top - Dudley Bright
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...fine 'tone', but now we would be impressed by his 'sound'. I actually find it useful to use both terms. Regard the basic timbre, after a note has begun and before it ends as the 'tone'...

7. Ray Premru: An Appreciation
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...iction and subsequent difficulties in functioning at a professional level, and still remaining on good terms. In my fifteen years with the Philharmonia, I have never known anything other than a cor...

8. Coda: The Orchestral Alto Trombone in the Twentieth Century
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...aks of an alto trombone that 'blends well with the section', one might consider this a contradiction in terms. The modern concept of orchestral alto trombone sound, as described by Ralph Sauer...

9. Chapter 2: The Ascent of the Tenor Trombone
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...135 Designating trombone parts numerically, according to Bartlett, was a fairly modern concept and the terms 'alto', 'tenor' and 'bass' were used increasingly to indicate range rather than type of ...

10. Sheila Tracy talks to Ian McDougall
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...re using it as an alternative to an alto trombone! I learned how to play that kind of music in terms of interpretation and so forth. In the meantime I started working in a...

11. The Trombone in Britain before 1800
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... no, sackbuts shall serve you". A yet further complicating factor is that other words and terms mean trombone at this time. Scottish sources at the end of the 15th century speak of pa...

12. Sheila Tracy talks to David Taylor
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... dramatic and they ask what are you doing, jazz or classical music, I say those are 20th century terms and this is the 21st century. Man, I'm just playing. I feel equally at h...

13. Chapter 3: Bruckner
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...cies, in what was Bruckner's heaviest, most 'Wagnerian' orchestra to date. The autograph score uses the terms 'Alt', 'Tenor' and 'Bass', but surely as 'convention rather than deliberate choic...

14. First Night Nerves
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...ke. "Beethoven leapt up in a fury, turned around and abused the orchestra players in the coarsest terms and so loudly that he could be heard throughout the auditorium. Finally he shouted 'From...

15. In Pursuit of a Dream
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... of the CD of that name by Douglas Yeo and the Black Dyke Mills Band. In frank and unpretentious terms, the author outlines his own musical life as an amateur player "so undramati...

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