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The Trumpet 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 1 18/01/12 3:53 PM Also available in the series The Flute Ardal Powell Timpani and Percussion Jeremy Montagu The Oboe Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes The Trombone Trevor Herbert The Clarinet Eric Hoeprich 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 2 18/01/12 3:53 PM THE YALE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SERIES The Trumpet John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan Yale University Press New Haven and London 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 3 18/01/12 3:53 PM Copyright © 2011 by John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S, Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications please contact: U.S. Office: [email protected] yalebooks.com Europe Office: [email protected] www.yalebooks.co.uk Set in Columbus MT by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wallace, John, 1949– The trumpet / John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-300-11230-6 (cl : alk. paper) 1. Trumpet. 2. Trumpet music—History and criticism. I. McGrattan, Alexander. II. Title. ML960.W35 2012 788.9’2--dc23 2011053112 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 4 18/01/12 3:53 PM Dedication and in memoriam To the Tullis Russell Mills Band, our fathers, Gibby McGrattan and Kiff Wallace, and to our teachers Albert Cochrane, Willie Ross and Ernest Hall 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 5 18/01/12 3:53 PM 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 6 18/01/12 3:53 PM We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 7 18/01/12 3:53 PM 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 8 18/01/12 3:53 PM Contents List of illustrations, music examples and tables x Foreword by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies C.B.E. xv Preface xvii Acknowledgements xix Introduction 1 1 The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world 5 2 The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique 36 3 The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600 64 4 The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 93 5 Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 117 6 Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach 139 7 France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 162 8 The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel 177 9 The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 194 10 The ‘Bach revival’, ‘Bach’ trumpets, and the advent of the piccolo trumpet 225 11 Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900 242 12 Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900 266 Appendix: A selective list of twentieth-century solo works 283 Notes 288 Bibliography 314 Index 330 3635_01_FM_CH01.indd 9 18/01/12 3:53 PM

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In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its family into art music, and its ri