Der Gitarrist Seth F. Josel und der Komponist Ming Tsao geben in ihrem gemeinsam geschriebenen Buch einen umfassenden Überblick über zeitgenössische Spieltechniken der klassischen Gitarre. Prägend war hierbei eine neue Generation von Gitarren-Solisten, die durch ihre außerordentlichen technischen und virtuosen Fähigkeiten einem neuen Verständnis von instrumentaler Aufführungspraxis den Weg geebnet haben. Detallierte Erklärungen über das, was technisch auf dem Instrument möglich ist, werden präsentiert und im Hinblick auf die traditionelle Gitarrentechnik in einen historischen Zusammenhang gestellt. Für Komponisten interessant sind die ausführlichen Analysen von zeitgenössischer Gitarrenliteratur, die viele Beispiele aus Kammer- und Ensemblemusik mit einbeziehen. Vier Hauptkapitel beschreiben - Techniken der rechten und der linken Hand - Besondere Harmonien und perkussive Techniken - Die Hauptinstrumente der Gitarrenfamilie und ihre Möglichkeiten - Notationsmöglichkeiten für zeitgenössische Gitarrenliteratur Detaillierte Grafiken zu Multiphonics-, Bitones- und Perkussions-Techniken sowie Audio-Tracks, auf die aus dem Buch heraus verlinkt wird, ergänzen die im Buch beschriebenen Beispiele.

Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the contemporary musical student or performer. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to playing technique and major works to key figures. A must-have for any musician’s personal library! Trumpeters today perform a vast repertoire of musical material spanning 500 years, much of it in a variety of styles and even on a number of related instruments. In A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player, scholar and performer, Elisa Koehler has created a key reference work that addresses all of the instruments in the high brass family, providing ready answers to issues that trumpeters, conductors, and musicians commonly—and sometimes not so commonly—encounter. Drawing on a broad range of scholarly sources, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player includes entries on historic instruments like the cornetto, keyed bugle, and slide trumpet; jazz trumpet techniques; mutes and accessories; and ancient ancestors of the trumpet and related non-Western instruments. In addition to its concise and detailed definitions, this work includes biographies of prominent performers, teachers, instrument makers, and composers of trumpet solo and ensemble literature often omitted from other musical references. Carefully labeled illustrations illuminate the inner workings of various valve mechanisms, allowing readers to visualize the more technical points of high brass instruments. Appendixes include a time line of trumpet history, a survey of valve mechanisms, a list of prominent excerpts from the orchestral and operatic repertoire, and an extensive bibliography. From quick definitions of confusing terms in a musical score to an in-depth overview of trumpet history, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player is an ideal reference for students, professionals, and music lovers.

This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries. The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.

Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.