Research Catalog

Title

Origins and early history of American wind music : instrument makers, composers, instructional methods, and ensemble performance / Barry Araújo Kolman ; with a foreword by Terry Oxley.

Author

Kolman, Barry, 1951-

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen, c2013.

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Details

Description

v, 180 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Summary

This book traces the origins of American Wind Music during the Federal Era specifically the instrumental instruction books called tutors that were published by American printers. The immense popularity of amateur music making in Federal America is apparent when one discovers the huge quantity of ensemble scores included in the tutors. These tutors mark the true beginning of indigenous instrumental ensemble music in America.

Subject

• Wind instruments > Methods
• Music > United States > History and criticism
• Wind instrument makers > United States
• Composers > United States
• Wind instruments > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. I. Introduction: Background information -- Purpose and scope of study -- Method of investigation -- Ch. II. Early American instrument makers and their instruments -- The instrument makers -- The instruments -- The clarinet -- The flute -- The flageolet -- The oboe -- The bassoon -- The serpent -- The French horn -- The trumpet -- The bugle -- The Kent bugle -- The trombone -- Ch. III. The authors and the works -- Samuel Holyoke -- Joseph Herrick -- Oliver Shaw -- Timothy Olmsted -- William Whiteley -- Ezekiel Goodale -- Henry E. Moore -- Ch. IV. Woodwinds -- The clarinet -- The flute and the flageolet -- The oboe (Hautboy) -- The bassoon -- Ch. V. Brass -- The French Horn -- The serpent -- The Kent bugle -- The bugle and the trumpet -- The trombone -- Ch. VI. Ensemble music -- Ch. VII. Conclusions -- Appendix: A. Original selections written by the authors and included in the tutors -- Appendix: B. Selections found in more than one tutor -- Appendix: C. Annotated list of significant pieces found in the tutors -- Appendix: D. Legend for indicating notes in a particular octave -- Selected bibliography -- Selected discography -- Index

ISBN

• 0773443517
• 9780773443518

OCLC

• 854828438
• SCSB-10168079

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library