Trumpets and Other High Brass

The Modern Era - A Definitive Guide

Content Description

Trumpets and Other High Brass is a series of five volumes, illustrated with instruments from the Utley Collection at the National Music Museum and other major collections.

This fifth and final volume of the history of high brass instruments deals with the trumpet of the modern era. Starting with the earliest patents related to the modern piston-valve trumpet in Paris in the 1870s, it traces the trumpet’s initial struggles to disentangle itself from the cornet and shake off the reputation as an elite orchestra instrument, to its dominance as the most important high brass instrument of the twentieth century.