Product Description: Humanity has blown horns and trumpets of various makes and models, lengths and diameters since prehistoric times. In Horns and Trumpets of the World, the eminent scholar Jeremy Montagu surveys the vast range in time and type of this instrument that has accompanied everything in human history from the war cry to the formal symphony, from the hunting call to the modern jazz performance...read more

Product Description: Catering for trumpet, trombone, tuba, horn and cornet players, the Brass Instrument Manual presents a unique step-by-step guide with detailed illustrations showing how to maintain and repair your instrument like a professional technician...read more

Product Description: This series presents a wide range of musical instruments from different cultures around the world. It gives information on how the instrument is constructed and how it is played.

Product Description: This book looks at a variety of brass instruments and shows the reader the different ways in which they are played around the world.

Product Description: This book looks at a variety of brass instruments and shows the reader the different ways in which they are played around the world.

Product Description: (Book). Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet focuses on the smaller horns in the brass family, explaining all the jargon you're likely to come across when you're out to buy or rent an instrument, from bell and leadpipe material to the shape of the bore, the valves and valve slides, and all of the other elements that make up the sound and the playability of your horn...read more

Product Description: In the history of brass instruments, few developments can rival the early nineteenth-century invention of the valve for enduring significance. Nevertheless, the acceptance of valved brass instruments proved controversial, as newspapers and other documents repeatedly attest...read more

Product Description: This authoritative guide provides all the pedagogical, historical, and technical material necessary for the successful instruction of brass. Chapters discuss the historical development of individual brass instruments and focus on technique, including guidance for teachers and a complete method for brass playing...read more

Looks at the different instruments, from the trumpet to the Australian didgeridoo, which make up the group of brass, and describes how they are played and how they fit into larger groups of instruments.

Provides information about the family of brass instruments, including the trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba. (view table of contents)

Explores how brass instruments work, the parts of brass instruments, how they are played, and the ways they combine to create music. (view table of contents)

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This authoritative guide provides all the pedagogical, historical, and technical material necessary for the successful instruction of brass. Chapters discuss the historical development of individual brass instruments and focus on technique, including guidance for teachers and a complete method for brass playing. Individual instrument chapters include lists of recommended study material and reference sources.

Text and pictures introduce the brass family of instruments, such as trumpets, trombones, tubas, and their relatives

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 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.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. In the nineteenth century, the advent of valved instruments ushered in yet another new era.In this extensively revised and updated edition, Mr. Baines documents the various states of the evolution of brass instruments with immense learning and a wealth of detail. The text is supplemented by over 140 black-and-white illustrations as well as 48 music examples. The result is a scholarly yet accessible account that remains an indispensable resource for any brass player or music historian.

An introduction to brass instruments, the distinctive sound they produce, and the music written for them

Product Description: This authoritative guide provides all the pedagogical, historical, and technical material necessary for the successful instruction of brass. Chapters discuss the historical development of individual brass instruments and focus on technique, including guidance for teachers and a complete method for brass playing...read more

A brief introduction to each of the brass instruments