This chapter provides orientation for readers who may not be familiar with the instruments discussed in subsequent chapters. After defining ‘brass instrument’, a concise survey is presented of brasswind instruments in twenty-first century use, together with those encountered in period-instrument performance of music going back to the fifteenth century.

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Introducing Brass Instruments

  • Murray Campbell,
  • Arnold Myers,
  • Joël Gilbert

摘要

This chapter provides orientation for readers who may not be familiar with the instruments discussed in subsequent chapters. After defining ‘brass instrument’, a concise survey is presented of brasswind instruments in twenty-first century use, together with those encountered in period-instrument performance of music going back to the fifteenth century.