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Jun 5, 2024 · horn, the orchestral and military brass instrument derived from the trompe (or cor) de chasse, a large circular hunting horn that appeared in France about 1650 and soon began to be used orchestrally. Use of the term French horn dates at least from the 17th century. Valves were added to the instrument in the early 19th century.
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May 26, 2022 · Introduction. The general heading “brass instruments” is better, if less elegantly, described by the common organological definition “lip-vibrated” wind instruments or aerophones (in brass instruments, air is set in motion by the players lips vibrating in a cup-shaped mouthpiece). Another, more recent name for the family that was ...
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he Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh
John Humphries, UK Kenneth Kreitner, USA Howard Weiner, Germany
Robert Barclay Ottawa, Canada Helen Barlow he Open University, UK Cliford Bevan Winchester, UK Gregory Booth University of Auckland, New Zealand Murray Campbell University of Edinburgh, UK Stewart Carter Wake Forest University, USA Ignace De Keyser Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Bruce Dickey Sala Bolognese, Bologna, Italy Géry Du...
his book is aimed at specialists and non-specialists: anyone who has an interest in increasing their knowledge of brass instruments, the way they are and have been made, played and understood in dif-ferent places and times. We have encouraged clarity from our contributors, but have not discouraged the use of technical language where it is needed. W...
hough the entries are in a single sequence, we selected items for inclusion by considering four broad categories from which they could be drawn: instruments, topics and themes that cast light on the way brass instruments are used in the present and have been in the past, biographical entries and entries on works of music. We feel we have covered th...
We have included entries on all brass instruments in modern use and most others that have been, or were intended for use, in Western music. Also included are entries on several lip-vibrated instru-ments that are fabricated from natural objects such as animal tusks and horns, instruments that are known to have been used in antiquity and those made s...
his category contains entries relevant to performance, items relating to parts of instruments, the acoustics of brass instruments and topics such as jazz which have been inluential on brass playing. xv We have also included entries on major ields of enquiry relevant to brass instruments and the meth-ods their researchers use including Iconography, ...
Entries are included on performers, instrument makers, scholars and others who have been impor-tant to the development and understanding of brass instruments and their repertoires. Limiting the number of biographical entries on performers has been taxing because there have been so many brilliant virtuosi. For this reason we had to settle on a difer...
Didactic and theoretical literature (along with surviving instruments and repertoire) constitutes the largest body of primary source information on musical performance for brasswind instruments before the twentieth century. Many of these sources are cited in entries in the Encyclopedia. Additionally a very extensive list of sources of this type is ...
he main tools used for linking related topics of information are the cross-referencing system, the index and the bibliography. Cross-references between entries are given within parentheses at appropriate points in the text using the format (see Sackbut). Where appropriate, cross-referencing extends to the appendices using the same process (see Appe...
he entry titles (the headers) in the main A–Z sequence of the Encyclopedia are in alphabetical order. here are no deinite articles in the header phrases, so for example, it is Black Dyke Band rather than he Black Dyke Band. Works of music are usually given by title, as in Fanfare for the Common Man, but certain works are most helpfully described as...
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung American National Biography Online Brass Bulletin Brass and Woodwind Quarterly EM FoMRHI GDMI II
Sound recordings are mentioned in a small number of entries, the entry on Jazz for example. he details of these recordings are dealt with in-text and suicient contextual information is always pro-vided for them to be traced.
UK musical terms and conventions are used throughout. So, crotchet and quaver rather than quarter and eighth note, and bar rather than measure.
‘Horn’ is used to signify any one of the many types of instrument that might be properly described by that name (tenor horn, hunting horn, etc. but not ‘horn’ as used in jazz parlance for any wind instru-ment). Consistently ‘french horn’ (lower case ‘f’) is used for the orchestral horn. ‘Trombone’ is used to describe that instrument in all periods ...
he following conventions are applied consistently for biographical entries: Surnames are followed by given names; titles and honoriics are not used. he name by which a subject was known is not bracketed but other given names are, as in Berlioz, (Louis) Hector. If a subject was also known by a nickname or alias that name is included in quotation mar...
Most brass instruments have detachable mouthpieces. Instruments have been photographed with a mouthpiece if there is a reasonable likelihood that the mouthpiece was originally supplied by the maker of the instrument shown. Otherwise, they have been photographed without a mouthpiece. xx
Acknowledgements of copyright permissions for photographs and other media are given in captions at the point at which they are used. However, we would like to record our gratitude to the many peo-ple and organisations who have made such material available to us. Our greatest debt of gratitude is to our contributors, each of whom have been consisten...
The 19th century was the period of greatest development and modernization of brass instruments. The vast majority of literature for brass instruments performed today was written from the late 19th century through today. This is largely due to developments in brass instruments starting in the late 1700s that allowed for greater ease of chromatic ...
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- 2020
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones [1] or labrophones , from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'.
The development of brass instruments continued in antiquity. The Greek salpinx, an elongated trumpet, and the Roman tuba, a conical instrument, are examples of the diversity of this era. The Romans also adopted brass instruments from the Etruscans, including the g-shaped cornu and the lituus and carnyx horns.
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literature written about it, and the second investigates the history of performance on the instrument—the ensembles it participated in, the occasions in which it took part, the people who played it, and the social, intellectual, political, economic,
