Valve trombone methods
The valve trombone was probably more common in the nineteenth century than the slide trombone.
The exception was in Britain, where the slide instrument seems to have been more prominent. This
might have been because some brass band contests explicitly banned the use of valve trombones. The
nineteenth century saw the largest growth in the production of didactic method books, and, as the list
below suggests, French publications were in the forefront.
Date
1833
Author
F. Bellini
c.1837
1840
J. Carnaud
fils ain
Muller
1845
W. Freyman
between
1850
and
1859
c.1852
J. Schwartz
F. C. E.
Carnaud?
n.d. (mid E. Cam
19thC)
c.1864
c.1865
Clodomir
(P.-F.-M. de
Borrit)
Clodomir
(P.-F.-M. de
Borrit)
A. Sax
1870
J. Forestier
1870
A. Wirth
1878
A. Lagard
c.1879
V. Caussinus
c.1865
Title
Metodo per trombone si duttile
che a pistoni
Mthode complte de trombone
pistons
Mthode de trombone trois
pistons
Mthode lmentaire de trombone
pistons ou cylindres
Mthode de trombone pistons et
sans pistons
Place
Milan
Publisher
Bellini
Paris
Richault
Paris?
J. Meissonier
Paris
n.p.
Paris
Gautrot Ain
Mthode complte et raisonne
pour les Saxhorns Contrebasse et
Baryton trois, quatre et cinq
cylindres et pour le Trombone
Pistons crite d'aprs le systme
adopt au Gymnase Musical
Militaire
Mthode pour le trombone
ordinaire et pour le trombone
pistons
Mthode lementaire de
Trombone Pistons adopte par
les premiers professeurs de Paris
Mthode lmentaire de trombone
pistons l'usage des fanfares et
des collges
Tablature du Nouveau Trombone
six pistons et tubes
indpendants
Monographie des Instruments
six pistons et tubes indpendants
Posaunen-Schule fr Alt, Tenor
und Bass-Posaune ...Instruction
Book of the Simple and ValveTrombone
Mthode de trombone trois ou
quatre pistons
Solfge-Mthode progressif de
Paris
Lafleur?
Carnaud?
Paris
Costallat
Paris
Leduc
Paris
Leduc
Paris
Sax
Paris
Sax
London
Augener &
Co.
Paris
Ikelmer
Frres
V. Caussinus
Paris
Valve trombone methods
between
1880
and
1889
before
1881
G. Bimboni
1887
J.A. Kappey
before
1891
D. Gatti
1891
Anon.
before
1892
G. Sianesi
c. 1895
1897
c. 1900
1905
1908
1907
1916
c. 1926
c. 1927
c. 1936
G. Rossari
Basse et Trombone quatre
pistons
Metodo per trombone a pistone
Metodo per trombone e
bombardino a cilindro in Si
bemolle
Complete Tutor for Tenor
Trombone in B flat, and Bass
Trombone in G, Slide and Valve
Gran metodo teorico praticoper
trombone tenore a cilindri e
congeneri
Method for the Bb valve trombone
Metodo per duplex bombardinotrombone (Si bem) invenzione
Pelitti con esempi ed esercizi
E. Guilbaut
Mthode facile pour trombone
pistons
C. Weber?
Premier methodValve trombone
P. de Ville
Universal method for slide and
valve trombone in bass and treble
clef
Salvation
The Salvation Army Tenor
Army
Trombone Tutor (Valve and
Slide)
O. Langey
Practical Tutor for the Bb Valve
Trombone and the Bb Baritone
(new edn)
L. Fontbonne Mthode complte, thorique et
pratique de trombone coulisse
et pistons
C. Hampe
Hampe Method for the Slide
Trombone, with an appendix for
the Trombone with Valves
A. W. Allen
Elementary progressive method
for cornet, trumpet, Eb alto, valve
trombone
S. Peretti
Nuova scuola dinsegnamento del
trombone tenore a macchina e
congeneri
J. J. B. L.
Arbans famous method for slide
Arban, edited and valve trombone and baritone
by C.L.
Randall & S.
Mantia
Florence
Brizzi &
Niccolai
Milan
Domenico
Vismara
London
Boosey &
Co.
Milan
n.p.
New
York?
Milan
Carl Fischer
Domenico
Vismara
Paris?
Imbert
[USA?]
New
York
C. Weber?
Carl Fischer
London
Publishing
Offices
London
Hawkes &
Son
Paris
Costallat
Chicago
F. Holstein &
Co.
Oakland, A. W. Allen
CA
Milan
Ricordi
New
York
Carl Fischer
Valve trombone methods
