ARBAN'S

PART I Principal Words used in Music. Introductory Remarks. Personal Notes, regarding Author and Editors. Rudiments of Music. Instructive Comments. Table of Harmonics. Diagram of Trombone. Diagram of Baritone and Valve Trombone. Correct Positions of Holding the Slide Trombone and Baritone. - with Lip Illustrations. First Studies. Syncopation. Studies in Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes. Studies for the Slur. General Instructions for Position and Movement of the Slide. Directions for the Study of the Scales: Major Scales; Minor Scales; Chromatic Scales; Chromatic Exercises. PART II Studies for Grace Notes: Preparatory Studies for the Gruppetto; The Gruppetto (consisting of three or four notes); Double Appoggiatura; Tone Studies; The Short Appoggiatura; The Portamento; The Trill; The Mordente. Intervals. Octaves and Tenths. Triplets. Studies for Sixteenth Notes. Studies for the Perfect Chord in Major and Minor Keys. Studies for the Chord of the Dominant Seventh. Studies for the Chord of the Dominished Seventh. Cadences. Triple and Double Tonguing: Studies for Triple Staccato; Studies for Double Staccato; Studies for Slur in Double Staccato; Tonguing as applied to the Trombone (with Studies). Caracteristic Studies. Fantasies and Airs with Variations: Cavatina from "Beatrice di Tenda"; Fantasy on "Acteon"; Brilliant Fantasy; Variations on a theme from "Norma"; Variations on a Tyrolienne; Variations on "Le Petit Suisse"; Caprice and Variations; Fantasy and Variations on a German Song; Variations on a French Melody (Vois tu la neige qui brille); Cavatina and Variations; Variations on a Favorite Theme (by Carl Maria von Weber); Variations on the "Carnival of Venice".