Perspectives in Brass Scholarship. Proceedings of the International Historic Brass Symposium. Amherst, 1995 - Carter, Stewart 1944-; International Historic Brass Symposium (1995 : Amherst, Mass.)) (Stuyvesant Pendragon Press, 1997)
Peter Downey, From the rim to the hub: Fortuna's wheel and instrumental music at the German-speaking Renaissance courts / Keith Polk, The invention of the slide principle and the earliest trombone, or the birth of a notion / Herbert W. Myers, Praetorius' pitch: some revelations of the Theatrum Instrumentorum / Ross W. Duffin, Cornetts & Sagbuts: some thoughts on the early seventeenth-century English repertory for brass / Robert Barclay, Some bubbles prick'd: a discussion of early brass mythology / Alexander McGrattan, The solo trumpet in Scotland 1695-1800 / Herbert Heyde, The brass-instrument makers Schmied of Pfaffendorf / Thomas Hiebert, A case for Horn in D basso in the early eighteenth century and its effect on Horn-and-trumpet combinations / Nola Reed Knouse, American Moravian brass players: what did they play? / Jeffrey L. Snedeker, The horn in early America / Stewart Carter, Georges Kastner on brass instruments: the influence of technology on the theory of orchestration / Trevor Herbert, The reconstruction of nineteenth-century band repertory: towards a protocol / Vladimir Koshelev, Trumpets, cornets, trombones and horns in the St. Petersburg Museum of Musical Instruments: a checklist / Arnold Myers, The horn function and brass instrument character / Craig Kridel, Gabriel in black paradise: the trumpet at Shady Cove camp ground.
The 1995 Amherst, MA, HBS Symposium was the largest and most significant gathering of brass scholars and musicians ever assembled. This volume contains essays on the latest research undertaken by these scholars. It includes studies by Reine Dahlquist, Robert Dawson, Peter Downey, Ross Duffin, Trevor Herbert, Herbert Heyde, Art Brownlow, Stewart Carter, Alexander McGrattan, Arnold Myers, Thomas Hiebert, Clifford Bevan, Robert Barclay, Vladimir Kochalev, and Herb Myers. Also included is an extensive summary of the NEH round-table discussion panels.
Keywords: Brass instrument