List of illustrations, music examples and tables
Foreword / Sir Peter Maxwell Davies C.B.E.
1. The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world
2. The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique
3. The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600
4. The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
5. Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
6. Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach
7. France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
8. The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel
9. The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
10. The 'Bach revival', 'Bach' trumpets, and the advent of the piccolo trumpet
11. Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900
12. Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900
Appendix: A selective list of twentieth-century solo works
