| Contents |
Foreword / by Dr. Percy Young -- Author's preface -- The trumpet defined -- Renaissance precursors of the baroque trumpet -- Baroque European trumpet-makers and their instruments -- Trumpets and music in Italy. First developments ; The Bolognese "school" -- The trumpet "guilds" -- The trumpet music of Germany -- Trumpets and music in the Austro-Bohemian empire -- English trumpet music by contemporaries of Henry Purcell -- The trumpet music of Henry Purcell -- The baroque trumpet in France -- Post scriptum -- Appendix : an inventory of musical sources for baroque trumpet. |
| Abstract |
This book surveys the related types of trumpets used from the period of Monteverdi through the era of Bach and Handel. The author examines the repertory of trumpet music available before the appearance of Bach?s Second Brandenburg Concerto in F Major and provides a detailed analysis of the working conditions of trumpet players in various European countries during this period. The choice of 1721 in this first study of the music, history, and manufacture of the trumpet as it existed before the Industrial Revolution was neither accidental nor arbitrary. The earliest and only dated source of J. S. Bach?s singular Second Brandenburg Concerto in F Major is both a musical and a chronological boundary between two quite different periods in the trumpet?s long history. |
| Bibliography note | "An inventory of musical sources for baroque trumpet": pages 245-289. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 291-306) and index. |
| LCCN | 73008765 |
| ISBN | 0815621574 |
| Stock number | $18.00 |
