1902

Arthur Elson, apparently influenced by Berlioz, says in his orchestration textbook, “The trombone is chief of those wind instruments that depict heroic emotions. It possesses in a superlative degree the qualities of nobility and grandeur. Its deep and powerful tones speak in the most poetic accents, and may reflect anything from sacred religious calm to the liveliest acclamations of martial glory. It is especially effective in somber passages, and has a forbidding, almost threatening quality of tone. Its loud tones are unusually menacing…” (Elson, Orchestral 242).