Recently added another article, Top 50 Brass Quintets, to Hub Pages. The list is a starting point that I use in coaching brass chamber music at the college level. It’s not comprehensive by any means, but it provides college quintets…
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Circus Musicians: At Least They Have a Gig!
I recently added a painting, Fernand Pelez’s Grimaces and Misery, to the 19th century timeline (2nd half). Dating from 1888, it is an exact contemporary of Georges Seurat’s Parade de cirque (which I’ve also included below). Although there are obvious…
Trombone History: Bruckner and the Trombone
Added the below new entries to the 19th century timeline (2nd half) on Bruckner’s use of trombone with voices from Mary Rasmussen’s “A Bibliography of Choral Music with Trombone Ensemble Accompaniment, as Compiled from Eleven Selected Sources” Brass Quarterly 5…
Trombone History: Mini-Bibliography
Where to start? Writing a trombone history paper and want to know where to begin? Below is a condensed bibliography listing some good introductory sources. The first category contains books on trombone (or brass in general), while the second contains…
Trombone History: More 18C Timeline Updates
Added the final entries from Stewart Carter’s “Trombone Obbligatos in Viennese Oratorios of the Baroque” to the 18th Century Timeline. In contrast to those of the earlier post, these entries don’t involve alto trombone. _______________ 1704—Vienna, Austria: Marc’ Antonio Ziani’s…
Trombone History Timeline Updates
Added the following entries, primarily to the 18th Century Timeline, from info contained in Stewart Carter’s excellent article, “Trombone Obbligatos in Viennese Oratorios of the Baroque” (Historic Brass Society Journal, 1990). I also added the entries to the Alto Trombone…
Barlow Prize Announced: New Concerto to be Premiered by Joseph Alessi
The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University has announced Benjamin Ellin as winner of the 2009 Barlow Prize, which includes a $20,000 cash prize and a commission to compose a new concerto for trombone and orchestra. The…
Webpage Updates
November 20, 2008 Trombone History Timeline: Posted an entry from another primary source. This one, an English dictionary titled A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences, printed in London in 1763-64, is noteworthy because it describes the sackbut, even at this…
Top 20 Tenor Trombone Excerpts
Below is a list of the 20 most-requested tenor trombone orchestral excerpts from a tally of audition announcements of 18 major orchestras. I use the list regularly in teaching excerpts to undergraduate trombone majors and consider it a kind of…