Feeling dark? I recently added quite a few more clips to the Trombone History Timeline, including 16 requiems–musical settings of the requiem mass, or mass for the dead. The trombone has a long history in sacred music in general, requiem settings in particular. It’s noteworthy how frequently and how prominently trombones feature in this very [...]
Trombone History: Bruckner and the Trombone
November 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Added the below new entries to the 19th century timeline (2nd half) on Bruckner’s use of trombone with voices from Mary Rasmussen’s “A Bibliography of Choral Music with Trombone Ensemble Accompaniment, as Compiled from Eleven Selected Sources” Brass Quarterly 5 (Spring 1962), 109-113. c. 1850—Anton Bruckner’s Psalm CXIV calls for 5 voices and 3 trombones. [...]
Webpage Updates
October 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
November 20, 2008 Trombone History Timeline: Posted an entry from another primary source. This one, an English dictionary titled A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences, printed in London in 1763-64, is noteworthy because it describes the sackbut, even at this relatively late date, as “a sort of trumpet,” and because it mentions multiple sizes of [...]