Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations, music examples and tables x
4. Foreword xv
5. Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world 5
9. 2. The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique 36
10. 3. The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600 64
11. 4. The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 93
12. 5. Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 117
13. 6. Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach 139
14. 7. France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 162
15. 8. The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel 177
16. 9. The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 194
17. 10. The ‘Bach revival’, ‘Bach’ trumpets, and the advent of the piccolo trumpet 225
18. 11. Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900 242
19. 12. Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900 266
20. Appendix: A selective list of twentieth-century solo works 283
21. Notes 288
22. Bibliography 314
23. Index 330