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

A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial

First Published in 1988. Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning in the middle of the seventeenth

Modern low brass instruments—trombone, tuba, and euphonium—have legions of ancestors, cousins, and descendants in over five-hundred years of history. Promin