Jack Adler-McKean
The Techniques of Tuba Playing
Tuba
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Details
- For
- Tuba
- Product Type
- Music lesson book
- Author / Composer
- Jack Adler-McKean
- Product number
- 763731
- Languages
- german, english
- Release Year
- 2020
Description
- More than 250 music examples, diagrams and tables
- Some 100 audio samples recorded on instruments ranging from the serpent to the microtonal tuba
- Detailed fingering charts for F, E-flat, C and B-flat tubas as well as for the euphonium, ophicleide and serpent
This book on the tuba is a companion for composers and players alike, deepening their understanding of this somewhat neglected family of instruments. It gives tuba players an opportunity to master and employ new performance techniq...
Content
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- II. The tuba family: a brief overview
- III. Valves and other tuning systems
- IV. Resonant characteristics and notational principles
- V. Sonic resources I: Fundamentals of sound production
- VI. Sonic resources II: microtonal and non-equality tempered sound production
- VII. Sonic resources III: air noise (non-lip-reed) sound production
- VIII. Modifying sounds I: the lips and facial muscles
- IX. Modifying sounds II: the tongue, vocal tract, and other mu...