Trombone History Bibliography: Primary Sources (20th century to present)

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NB: Some sources that would not normally be considered primary sources (e.g., orchestration textbooks, popular music history texts) are listed in this category because they are being used as primary documents in tracing public opinion and perception of the trombone.

Abbott, Lawrence, “About Voices and Instruments” in Siegmeister, Elie, ed. The Music Lover’s Handbook. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1943.

Adler, Samuel. The Study of Orchestration. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982.

Andrews, George W. History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Instruments. New York: Irving Squire, 1910.

Apel, Paul H. The Message of Music. New York: Vantage Press, 1958.

Baker, Theo. Dictionary of Musical Terms. New York: Schirmer, 1923.

Barne, Kitty. Listening to the Orchestra. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946.

Blatter, Alfred. Instrumentation/Orchestration. New York: Longman Inc., 1980.

Borland, J. E., “The Brass Wind Instruments” in English music, 1604 to 1904: being the lectures given at the music loan exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, held at Fishmongers’ Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904. 2nd ed. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1911.

Burton, Stephen Douglas. Orchestration. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Campbell, Patricia J. “Musical Instruments in the Instrumentälischer Bettlermantl–A Seventeenth-Century Musical Compendium” The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 48 (March 1995), 156-167.

Case, George. “Correspondence: The Sackbut: Its Evolution and History” The Musical Times, Vol. 48, No. 768 (Feb. 1, 1907), 110.

Chafe, Eric Thomas. The Church Music of Heinrich Biber. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987.

Cobb, Irvin S. Cobb’s Bill of Fare. Illustrated by Peter Newel and James Preston. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1913.

Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939.

Dickinson, Edward, ed. Who’s Who in the Orchestra (vol. XI in Dickinson, Edward, ed. Fundamentals of Musical Art). New York: The Caxton Institute, 1927.

Drury, Paul. Bolsover Castle. London: English Heritage, 2014.

Elson, Arthur. Orchestral Instruments and Their Use. Boston: The Page Co., 1902.

Elson, Louis S. Elson’s Music Dictionary. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1905.

Forsyth, Cecil. Orchestration, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co., 1949 (1st ed. 1914).

Gardner, Maurice. The Orchestrator’s Handbook. Great Neck, NY: The Staff Music Pub. Co., 1948.

Gilson, Paul. Le Tutti Orchestral. 2nd ed. Brussels: Schott Fréres, 1921 (1st ed. 1913).

Haas, Carl. Inside Music: How to Understand, Listen to, and Enjoy Good Music. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1984.

Harman, Carter. A Popular History of Music. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1956.

Heacox, Arthur Edward. Project Lessons in Orchestration. Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson Co., 1928.

Howes, Frank. Full Orchestra. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945.

Keillor, Garrison, “The Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra” in Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days: A Recital for Mixed Baritone and Orchestra. Minnesota Public Radio: Virgin, 1989.

Kelley, Edgar Stillman. Musical Instruments. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1925.

Kennan, Kent Wheeler. The Technique of Orchestration. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.

Kolodin, Irving. The Composer as Listener. New York: Horizon Press, 1958.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Jealous Potter. Trans. Bénédicte Chorier. Chicago, Ill: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988.

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby. Cape Cod Ballads and Other Verse. Trenton, NJ: A. Brandt, 1902.

Lovelock, William. The Elements of Orchestral Arrangement. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1968.

Mahler, Gustav, Richard Strauss, and Herta Blaukopf. Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss: Correspondence, 1888-1911. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. London: Faber, 1984.

Mason, Daniel. The Orchestral Instruments and What They Do: A Primer for Concert-Goers. New York: The H. W. Gray Co., 1908.

McKay, George Frederick. Creative Orchestration. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1963.

Newman, William S. Understanding Music: A New Introduction to Music’s Elements, Styles, and Forms—for Both the Layman and the Practitioner. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953.

Piston, Walter. Orchestration. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1955.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Andreyevich. My Musical Life. Trans. Judah A. Joffe. London: Faber and Faber, 1989 (original publication 1909).

Rogers, Bernard. The Art of Orchestration: Principles of Tone Color in Modern Scoring. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951.

Schwartz, H. W. The Story of Musical Instruments. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1938.

Shatzkin, Merton. Writing for the Orchestra: An Introduction to Orchestration. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Spaeth, Sigmund. The Art of Enjoying Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1933.

Stravisnky, Igor and Robert Craft. Conversations with Igor Stravinsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958.

Wagner, Joseph. Orchestration: A Practical Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959.

Westrup, J. A. “The Misuse of the Trombone” The Musical Times, Vol. 66, No. 988 (Jun, 1925), 524-525.

Widor, Charles Marie. The Technique of Modern Orchestration: A Manual of Practical Orchestration. Trans. Edward Suddard. London: Joseph Williams, 1906.

Winkler, Max. A Penny from Heaven. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951.