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History of the Trombone P. 12 Date Information Citation 1700s A.D. Trombone parts in French orchestral music are simple and easy to play - "the ranges of the parts are very narrow…and there are no rhythmic complexities whatsoever." Guion p. 179 1700s A.D. Johann Fux composes "80 masses, of which 43 included trombone parts." Guion p. 198 1700s A.D. 1700s A.D. "The trombone participated more in choral music than in any other medium in the eighteenth century…The trombone parts in choral music are not modified to omit melodic embellishment or otherwise simplify the line." Napoleon's armies were influential in the French use of the trombone. "The French developed a taste for trombones at this time." "Composers first exploited the musical possibilities of the trombone in a large wind ensemble…" Guion p. 197-8 Guion p. 295-6 1700s A.D. The position of the bell, in relationship to the over all length of the horn, was established at 3:2. Bate p. 54 1700s A.D. The pitch of the tenor trombone changes from A to Bb. Guion p. 120 early 1700s A.D. Flat stays were replaced with "tubular stays, which are more comfortable to hold…" Guion p. 120 early 1700s A.D. early 1700s A.D. (before 1723) first half of the1700s A.D. 1703 A.D. The family of trombones is complete but their popularity falls "in England, France, and Italy." "The Italianate expression tromba di tirarsi (slide trombone) occurs only in cantatas written in Leipzig by Kuhnau and Bach before about 1723. During the period of these, Zugtrompete is mentioned in Leipzig documents…" If the treble trombone was known to seventeenth century composers, its place as the upper member of the family was consistently usurped by the cornetti; even throughout the first half of the eighteenth century the latter obsolete instruments figure commonly in Church music in association with three trombones." "Sebastien de Brossard's Dictionnaire de musique " mentions the trombone in a breif article, but there are no other French writtings that mention the trombone in the early eighteenth century. Bate p. 146 Baines p. 178 Carse p. 18 Guion p. 167
History of the Trombone P. 13 Date Information Citation 1706 A.D. 1713 A.D. 1713 A.D. 1713 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. 1714 - 1787 A.D. Friedrich Erhard Niedt provides a description of an 18th century trombone is his treaty Musicalischer Handleitung . He mentions a "bell section and the rods, which are placed in a sheath." Johann Maththeson wrote a treatise, Das neu-eroffnete Orchestre , for the listening audience about instruments including the trombone. Mattheson: "Four trombones are specified, a small alto, a large alto, a tenor or "grosse-quart" and a bass trombone. Presuming the bass trombone to have been in F, the "grosse-quart" would refer to the B flat tenor instrument." "Trombones, according to Mattheson, were seldom used except in churches and for solemn occasions." Guion p. 26-7 Guion p. 25 Carse p. 117 Carse p. 117 Gluck "added three trombones…to the standard pairs of horns and trumpets." Carse p. 156 Horns and trombones appear in tutti sections of orchestral music by Gluck. "There is no attempt at any harmonic alliance between trumpets and trombones." "Alto, tenor and bass trombones are included only in particular movements of some of Gluck's operas, and are used harmonically, with the parts placed close together, and rather higher than is now customary." "It is noteworthy that Gluck's bass trombone by no means always sounds the bass note of the chord; also that the traditional French custom of placing the trombone parts harmonically in close position seems to have its beginning in these parts of Gluck." Gluck's trombone parts were occasionally written in unision. It is thought "that only the quiter manner of trombone-playing prevailed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." "The addition of trombones had made a self-contained harmonic group of brass insruments quite feasible, and of the possible combinations, horns and trombones - such as are used in the well-known "Divinites du Styx" (Alceste) - are evidentally preferred to the bolder blend of trumpets and trombones." Carse p. 158-9 Carse p. 159 Carse p. 159 Carse p. 159 Carse p. 160 1722 A.D. Bonanni describes an instrument as "Altra Tromba spezzata." Baines p. 104
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