Perspectives in Brass Scholarship: Proceedings of the International Historic Brass Symposium, Amherst, 1995 (Bucina, No. 2)

Perspectives in Brass Scholarship: Proceedings of the International Historic Brass Symposium, Amherst, 1995 (Bucina, No. 2) Review

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 the most important scholars in the brass field. 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.

Valved Brass: The History of an Invention (Bucina: the Historic Brass Society Series No. 7) (Printed Case Cover)

Valved Brass: The History of an Invention (Bucina: the Historic Brass Society Series No. 7) (Printed Case Cover) Review

In the history of brass instruments, few developments can rival the early nineteenth-century invention of the valve for enduring significance. Nevertheless, the acceptance of valved brass instruments proved controversial, as newspapers and other documents repeatedly attest. Christian Ahrens (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in his important monograph, Eine Erfindung und ihre Folgen: Blechblasinstrumente mit Ventilen (1986), devotes considerable attention to this heated controversy, as he traces the early use of valved brass instruments in the realms of art music, military music, and Volksmusik. Stressing social and aesthetic issues over the more familiar mechanical aspects, the author draws on a rich body of journalistic source material to detail a compelling reception history.