1937

Donald Francis Tovey, speaking of Haydn’s use of bass trombone in The Creation, says, “By the way, Haydn does not seem to know the modern or late-Victorian rule that ‘you must never use the bass trombone without the others.’ His rule appears to be that you may do so by all means, but need neither presuppose that he will play like a pig nor compel him to play thus by writing so low as to give him constant rapid changes of his slide from the first position to the seventh” (Tovey 142).