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14 THE TUBA FAMILY The first edition of THE TUBA FAMILY was published by Faber & Faber (Scribner in the USA) in 1978 and made an instant impression. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme described it as ‘the most unexpected publishing event of the year’.
Following continuing research and increasing awareness of historic performing practice, the second edition, published in 2000, is a significant improvement on the first, with 640 pages (compared with 303), 16 chapters, a 33-page index, 16 tables, 100 music examples, 100 illustrations, 8 appendices and 23-page bibliography.
This family of instruments (called by organologists the ‘valved bugle-horns’) is immense: there are over 700 names in the Glossary. The instruments date back in time to one of the earliest signalling horns, the bugle (horn of the bugle or young ox), became more versatile with the addition of finger-holes in the 11th century, provided a deeper range of notes through the serpent at the end of the 16th century and reached their highest state of perfection following the invention of the valve about 1813.
The family provides virtually the entire instrumentation of the British brass band (except for the cornets and trombones), is found in wind bands of all sorts and, particularly in the form of the bass and contrabass tubas, in symphonic and operatic orchestras.
CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements.
I The valved bugle-horn and its acoustics The acoustics II Serpents and bass horns The serpent Upright serpents The English bass horn The music The players The serpent revival III Keyed bugles and ophicleides The keyed bugle The ophicleide Monster ophicleides The music The players The ophicleide revival IV Valves, valve-systems and the first tubas Compensating devices The first tubas Valved ophicleides V Tenor tuba and euphonium The instrument The music VI Saxhorns and other families VII The contemporary tuba VIII Instruments and music: Germany and Austria The Viennese Concert Tuba IX Instruments and music: Eastern Europe X Instruments and music: France XI Instruments and music: America XII Instruments and music: Britain The English F Tuba Post-war practice XIII Instruments and music: Italy XIV The tuba outside the orchestra Tuba in the band Tuba in the small ensemble Tuba as soloist Tuba in jazz Tuba and the avant-garde Tuba on radio, stage and film XV Helicon, Sudrephone, the duplex and other exotica The helicon The Antoniophone The Sudrephone The Wagner Tuben Cornons and cornophones Tenor Cors and Mellophones Saxotromba Saxtubas and Kornette-Instrumente Duplex instruments XVI Low brass in the nineteenth-century orchestra Mendelssohn and the bass problem International demands on Rossini Verdi and the cimbasso Wagner and the contrabass trombone [Royal] Philharmonic Society, London Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Appropriate instruments and techniques
Appendix A: The Baβ-Tuba Patent Appendix B: Glossaries 1. Terms derived from the Roman tuba 2. Valved bugle-horns and related instruments Appendix C: Lists 1. Serpent presence indicated in parts, scores, etc. 2. Historic players of serpent, bass horn and ophicleide 3. English orchestral tubists c. 1870-1930 4. Contemporary makers of musical instruments and accessories mentioned in this book 5. Collections of musical instruments mentioned in this book
Bibliography Composer index of references to the use of tuba family instruments Index
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