The Trumpet

359 Pages·2012·46.83 MB·English

by  John Wallace

The Trumpet
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THE YALE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SERIES
The Trumpet
John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
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Copyright © 2011 by John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form
(beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S, Copyright Law
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallace, John, 1949–
The trumpet / John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-300-11230-6 (cl : alk. paper)
1. Trumpet. 2. Trumpet music—History and criticism. I. McGrattan, Alexander.
II. Title.
ML960.W35 2012
788.9’2--dc23
2011053112
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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Dedication and in memoriam
To the Tullis Russell Mills Band, our fathers, Gibby McGrattan and Kiff Wallace,
and to our teachers Albert Cochrane, Willie Ross and Ernest Hall
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We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump;
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
1 Corinthians 15:51–52
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Contents
List of illustrations, music examples and tables x
Foreword by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies C.B.E. xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1
1 The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world 5
2 The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique 36
3 The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600 64
4 The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries 93
5 Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries 117
6 Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and
the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach 139
7 France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 162
8 The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel 177
9 The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries 194
10 The ‘Bach revival’, ‘Bach’ trumpets, and the advent of the
piccolo trumpet 225
11 Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900 242
12 Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900 266
Appendix: A selective list of twentieth-century solo works 283
Notes 288
Bibliography 314
Index 330
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