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The brass instrument owner's handbook
The Brass Instrument Owner’s Handbook is the second in a series of musical instrument owner’s handbooks. Following the structure of The String Instrument Owner’s Handbook (2015), this book provides professionals, musicians, teachers, students, and individuals interested in brass instruments with an abundance of knowledge. A touchstone work for both uninitiated and advanced players, The Brass Instrument Owner’s Handbook provides a roadmap for every step of the owning process from selecting and buying (or renting) to maintaining, repairing, modifying, upgrading, and even re-selling your instrument. Chapters answer such questions as: Where did these instruments come from? What are the different kinds of historical and contemporary brass instruments? How do these instruments work? Who makes them and how? How do I choose and buy a brass instrument? How do I rent one? How do I take care of my brass instrument? And so much more. The book also provides readers with an instrument diary and in-depth glossary of terms.
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Fanfares and Finesse
Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This colorful past is reflected in the arsenal of instruments a classical trumpeter employs during a performance, sometimes using no fewer than five in different keys and configurations to accurately reproduce music from the past. With the rise in historically inspired performances comes the necessity for trumpeters to know more about their instrument's heritage, its repertoire, and different performance practices for old music on new and period-specific instruments. More than just a history of the trumpet, this essential reference book is a comprehensive guide for musicians who bring that musical history to life.
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The Cambridge companion to brass instruments
\"Provides an overview of the history of brass instruments and their technical and musical development. Much of the volume is devoted to the way brass instruments have been used in classical music, but there are also ... contributions on the ancient world, non-Western music, vernacular and popular traditions, and the rise of jazz\"--Publisher marketing.
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Horns and trumpets of the world
Humanity has blown horns and trumpets of various makes and models, lengths and diameters since prehistoric times. In Horns and Trumpets of the World, the eminent scholar Jeremy Montagu surveys the vast range in time and type of this instrument that has accompanied everything in human history from the war cry to the formal symphony, from the hunting call to the modern jazz performance. No work on this topic offers as much detail or so many illustrations—over 150, in fact—of this remarkable instrument. Montagu’s examination starts with horns constructed from such unusual materials as seaweed, cane, and bamboo, and continues the journey of exploration through those of shell, wood, ivory, and metal. The chronological scope of Horns and Trumpets of the World is equally vast: it looks at instruments of the Bible and from the Bronze and Iron Ages respectively before diving headlong into those from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, and, following the Industrial Revolution, those that have appeared in the modern era. Drawing on the many instruments from the author’s own extensive collection, Montagu offers details, including measurements, at levels rarely seen in other surveys of this world of instrumentation. Horns and Trumpet of the World should appeal to not only scholars and collectors, but professional brass players and manufacturers, as well as museums and institutions with a vested interest in our musical heritage.
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The Cambridge encyclopedia of brass instruments
Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopaedia on the subject. It includes over 100 illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopaedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.
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Prediction of trumpet performance descriptors using machine learning
Based on a physical model of a trumpet’s functioning, the numerical continuation approach is used to construct the model’s bifurcation diagram, which depends on the instrument’s acoustic characteristics and the musician’s parameters. In this article, we first identify 10 descriptors that account for the main characteristics of each bifurcation diagram. It is first shown that these descriptors can be used to classify four professional trumpets with a recognition rate close to 100%. The XGBoost algorithm is used for this purpose. Secondly, we evaluate the ability of different classical machine learning algorithms to predict the values of the 10 descriptors given the acoustic characteristics of a trumpet and the value of the musician’s parameters. The best surrogate model is obtained using the LassoLars method, trained on a dataset of 12,000 bifurcation diagrams calculated by numerical continuation. Training takes just 2 min, and real-time predictions are accurate, with an error of approximately 1%. A software interface has been developed to enable trumpet designers to predict the values of the descriptors for a trumpet being designed, without any knowledge of physics or nonlinear dynamics.
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