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