Jean-Baptiste Arban: Method for Trombone

Contents

• About Jean Baptiste Arban
• About Simone Mantia
• About Charles L. Randall
• About Alan Raph
• Introductory Remarks
• Notes and Listings for the Accompaniment CD
• Instructive Comments
• Special Baritone Horn Techniques and Considerations
• Overtones
• Slide Placement and F Attachment
• Diagram of the Trombone
• Diagram of the Baritone and Valve Trombone
• Correct Positions for Holding the Slide Trombone and Baritone
• I. First Studies
• First Studies
• Syncopation
• Studies in Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes
• 6/8 Meter
• II. Studies for the Slur
• III. Direction for Study of the Scales
• Major Scales
• Minor Scales
• Chromatic Scales
• Chromatic Triplets and Scale Fragments
• IV. Ornaments
• Preparatory Exercises for the Gruppetto
• The Gruppetto (Turn)
• The Double Appoggiatura
• Short Etudes
• The Grace Note
• The Portamento
• The Trill
• The Mordent
• V. More Advanced Studies
• Intervals
• Octaves and Tenths
• Triplets
• Studies for Sixteenth Notes
• Major and Minor Arpeggios
• Dominant Seventh Arpeggios
• Diminished Seventh Arpeggios
• Cadenzas
• VI. Double and Triple Tonguing
• Double Tonguing
• Triple Tonguing
• The Slur in Double Tonguing
• Fanfare Tonguing
• VII. Solos
• VIII. 14 Characteristic Studies
• IX. 12 Fantaisies and Airs with Variations
• X. Harmonious Blacksmith Variations