Title: The last trumpet : a history of the English slide trumpet /
Authors: Brownlow, Art.
Publisher: Pendragon Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Trumpet; Trumpet music History and criticism.
Contents: Foreword / Crispian Steele-Perkins -- Ch. 1. Precursors. Early Slide Trumpets. The Trumpet in Late-Eighteenth-Century England -- Ch. 2. The English Slide Trumpet. The Slide Trumpet Defined. The Early Development of the Slide Trumpet. Nineteenth-Century Modifications. Slide Trumpet Technique -- Ch. 3. The Literature of the Slide Trumpet. Orchestral Literature. Ensemble Literature. Solo Literature -- Ch. 4. The Last Trumpet. The Slide Trumpet at the End of the Century. Reasons for Slide Trumpet Primacy in England. Modern Uses for the Slide Trumpet. The Last Trumpet -- Appendix A. Nine "Seraphim" Cadenzas -- Appendix B. A Checklist of British Trumpeters -- Appendix C. A Checklist of English Slide Trumpet Makers.