Exposition

The 21st Century Tenor Trombonist (2024)

Aaron Small
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About this exposition

Today’s orchestral auditions and positions nearly universally require trombonists to play more than one trombone at a high level. Nearly every principal trombone audition in Europe requires the trombonist to play alto trombone. However, there is not much material out there relating to maintaining or improving skills on a “secondary” instrument while still making good progress on the “primary” instrument. I hope that my study will help provide a new source of information on skill transference from instrument to instrument, as well as give an idea of how one can approach the differences between instruments. For instance, many people find it more difficult to play the lower tenor trombone after the alto trombone- why is this? Many people also feel that it is easier to play in the upper range on the alto trombone than on the tenor when your body physically does very similar things on each instrument. I hope that the exercises and other resources that I provide will help to come to conclusions on how to overcome these problems, as they have helped me.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsAlto Trombone, Tenor Trombone, Skill transference
date21/11/2023
published04/07/2024
last modified04/07/2024
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
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licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2393394/2393395
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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nameAlto Trombone Excerpt Frequency
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nameAmount of auditions requiring the Alto Trombone
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namePadding- Alto Sketch
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name1- Summer Practice Schedule
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name2- Solos for Tenor and Alto
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name3. Etudes
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nameExercise 2
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