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Aug 7, 2017 · In the mid 15th century. It has developed from origins mainly of ceremonial and religious purposes into a history the trombone in timeline form. It was const...
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Are you looking for a video on the Trombone and the interesting facts and history this wonderful musical instrument has? Then this educational Ted's List vid...
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Chris Washburne explains the history of the trombone, and shows how its unique qualities and versatility have been used to imitate vocal qualities in music t...
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- The Slide Trumpet
- The Heyday of The Trombone
- The ‘Dark Ages’ of The Trombone
- Virtuosos and New Technologies
- New Forms in The Twentieth Century
- Summing Up The Trombone’S History
The Slide Trumpet is a good place to start our history because it marks the invention of the most defining feature of the trombone – its slide. This is the part of the trombonethat moves up and down to change the pitch of a note. We presume that slides were first fitted to a type of trumpet called a busine, which was imported to Europe from the Isl...
The slide trombone (as we know it today) was popular by the end of the fifteenth century, particularly in Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. From here the instrument was imported to other regions, including England. By the sixteenth century, the shawm-and-trombone ensembles began to play in churches, although it is largely unknown what music wa...
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the trombone began to fall out of use in many parts of Europe. It is thought that there was a change of taste which favored more homogenous sonorities (such as the string orchestra), and the practice of doubling vocal lines with cornetts and sackbuts declined. The trombone survived only in some Lutheran c...
With the advent of piston technology in the nineteenth century, the existence of the slide trombone was threatened by the new valve trombone. The valve trombone was especially popular in Latin countries and Italy; it is well known that Verdi had this instrument in mind when writing for his operas. It was in the nineteenth century that trombone teac...
The Trombone in Jazz
The most important change for the trombone in the twentieth century is the advent of jazz music. One of the earliest forms of this was the ‘tailgate’ style of playing, where the performer took a middle-harmonic voice and added emphases with glissando. This is the style of playing you often hear in Dixieland music. Various jazz virtuosos and composers changed the way the trombone was perceived, examples include Tommy Dorsey’s famous legato style and Glenn Miller’s music of the swing era. Later...
The Trombone in Modern Classical Music
Within the classical sphere, the twentieth-century conservatoire system upholds a traditional style of playing roughly unbroken since the late-eighteenth century. In the 1960s however, the early music revival sees a renewed interest in the renaissance style, and replicas of the sackbut appear along with an older, historically informed style of performance. The avant-garde also pushes the technical limitations of the instrument; one of the most influential works in this regard is Luciano Berio...
The Trombone’s Modern Design
The design of the trombone becomes more standardized throughout the twentieth century due to forces of globalization. A relatively small number of manufacturers have also come to dominate the market and are favored especially by professionals. The instrument is now typically found in two varieties: a large bore model with a valve attachment is used for classical music, and a straight, small-bore instrument is used for popular styles.
In this article, we explored some of the more surprising elements of the trombone’s history. We looked at the mystery of the slide trumpet, the trombone’s heyday in the renaissance, its almost-total disappearance in the eighteenth century, its stardom in the latter nineteenth century, and its versatility in the twentieth century. Hopefully, this ov...
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Aug 2, 2019 · You've heard of the trombone. But how does it actually produce sound? Matt Gee, Principal Trombone with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, shows us the ropes....
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Apr 22, 2020 · What is a trombone? Schmitt Music Low Brass Specialist, Keith Hilson, gives you an overview of the instrument, how it works, different playing styles and more.
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