The Tuba Family

Second edition, revised, enlarged and updated.

CONTENIDO:

Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgments

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 Vienese 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, Sudrephones, the duplex and other exotica
-The helicon
-The Antoniophone
-The Sudrephone
-The Wagner Tuben
-Cornons and cornophones
-Tenor Cors and Mellophones
-Saxotrombas
-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 technique

Appendix A:
-The Bass-Tuba Patent
Apendix B, Glossaries:
-Terms derived from the Roman tuba
-Valved bugle-horns and related instruments
Appendix C, Lists:
-Serpent presence indicated in parts, scores, etc.
-Historic players of serpent, bass horn and ophicleide
-English orchestral tubists, c.1870-1930
-Contemporary makers of musical instruments and accessories mentioned in this book
-Collections of musical instruments mentioned in this book

-Bibliography
-Composer index of references to the use of tuba family instruments
-Index