Talk:Soprano trombone

Useful mentions from books
Adding snippets for later use here.—Jon (talk) 01:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Sopranino and piccolo described as toy instruments only, built in "recent decades" (p3).
 * Praetorius never mentions a soprano-sized instrument in Syntagma Musicum (1614-20), using alt-posaun and deskant-posaun interchangeably to refer to the alto (p32).
 * The first mention in the literature was 1713 by Johann Mattheson, referring to large and small sizes of alto trombone (p35).
 * In their orchestration treatises, Adolf Bernhard Marx (1847) and Ebenezer Prout (1897) consider the soprano obsolete, but Charles-Marie Widor (1904) mentions that some manufacturers make them, while calling the alto obsolete (p52).
 * Curt Sachs stated without evidence in his Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde (1930) that the soprano trombone existed in the 16th century, an error that persisted for several decades in subsequent texts (p48).


 * Main discussion is a single paragraph: earliest surviving instrument thought to be from 1677; three early cantatas by Bach, but instrument not widely used, possibly due to the facility and common use of the cornett for the treble voice in ensembles; use in Moravian Church music, particularly in the US into modern times (p28).
 * Mentioned only to disambiguate it from the flatt trumpet being discussed, a form of slide trumpet (p125).


 * These Trumpets and Other High Brass books are a monumental achievement, Sabine Klaus should get a medal or something. Early 20th C. slide cornets and subsequent instruments are covered in the second volume (p39-44).

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