Call numbers for trombone music
- M90-M94: Trombone or bass trombone alone
- M90: Collections (more than one composer)
- M91: Original works - collections (one composer)
- M92: Original works - separate works
- M93: Arrangements - collections (one composer)
- M94: Arrangements - separate works
- M262-M263: Trombone or bass trombone with piano accompaniment
- M262: Collections
- M263: Separate works
- M288-M289: Duets for two wind instruments (of all kinds)
- M288: Collections
- M289: Separate works
- M290-M291: Duets - one stringed and one wind instrument
- M296-M297: Duets - one wind and one plucked instrument
- M315-M319: Piano and two wind instruments
- M320-M324: Piano, one string, and one wind instrument
- M335-M339: Piano, one wind, and one plucked instrument
- M355-M359: Three wind instruments
- M360-M364: Three stringed and wind instruments
- M375-M379: Three wind and plucked instruments
- M380-M384: Three stringed, wind, and plucked instruments
Quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets follow similar patterns (in the M400s, 500s, 600s, 700s, 800s, and 900s, respectively).
Concertos and similar pieces:
- M1032: Trombone with full orchestra - full scores
- M1032.5: Cadenzas for works for trombone with full orchestra
- M1033: Trombone with full orchestra - piano reductions
- M1132: Trombone with string orchestra - full scores
- M1132.5: Cadenzas for works for trombone with string orchestra
- M1133: Trombone with string orchestra - piano reductions
Studies and methods:
- MT460: General works
- MT462: Systems and methods
- MT463: Teaching pieces
- MT464: Instructive editions
- MT465: Studies and exercises
- MT466: Orchestral studies (excerpts)
- MT467: Two trombones
- MT468: Self-instructors
- MT472: Bass trombone or contrabass trombone
Subject headings for trombone music
Use this list of subjects to get started searching in the Libraries catalog:
Solo trombone music:
- sonatas (trombone)
- suites (trombone)
- variations (trombone)
- [fill in this blank with the genre of composition you're looking for] (trombone)
- trombone music
Trombone and piano music:
- rondos (trombone and piano)
- sonatas (trombone and piano)
- suites (trombone and piano)
- variations (trombone and piano)
- [fill in this blank with the genre of composition you're looking for] (trombone and piano)
- trombone and piano music
Duets:
- trombones (2)
- trumpet and trombone music
- flute and trombone music
- horn and trombone music
- etc.
Trios:
- brass trios (horn, trombone, trumpet) [also try other combinations of instruments with trombone]
- wind trios [use this subject heading to search for mixed brass and woodwind, various combinations of instruments]
- wind trios (bassoon, clarinet, trombone)
- wind trios (flute, horn, trombone)
- wind trios (trombones (2), horn)
- etc.
- trios [this subject heading will lead you to various combinations of stringed, brass, woodwind, etc. instruments]
- trios (viola, trombones (2))
- trios (trumpet, trombone, percussion)
- etc.
Quartets [follow this pattern for quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets]:
- brass quartets [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of brass instruments, e.g. trombones (2), horns (2)]
- wind quartets [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of brass and woodwind instruments]
- suites [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of instruments]
- variations [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of instruments]
- wind quartets [mixed brass and woodwind, various combinations]
Trombone and orchestra:
- concertos (trombone)
- concertos (trombone solo with piano)
- trombone with orchestra
- concertos (trombone with string orchestra)
- rondos (trombone with orchestra)
- [fill in this blank with the genre you're looking for] (trombone with orchestra)
Find trombone-specific scholarship online and in print through the Music Library
Want an overview of trombone-related publications and lists of repertoire?
Browse these call number ranges in the Music Library's Reference section (located on the low shelving in the front of the Library, across from the circulation desk) and General collections. If you need help locating any of these materials, just ask at the circulation desk!
- ML128 .T76: Trombone bibliographies
- ML965: General works
- ML966: Construction
- ML968: Music and playing
Also, make sure to check out these specific titles:
- Anderson, Paul G. Brass Music Guide: Ensemble Music in Print. Music Guide Series 5. Northfield, IL: Instrumentalist Co. 1987.
- Reference, ML128.W5 A57 1987
- Arling, Harry J. Trombone Chamber Music: An Annotated Bibliography. 2nd ed. Nashville: Brass Press, 1983.
- Reference, Quarto ML128.T76 A7 1983
- Bate, Philip. The Trumpet and Trombone: An Outline of Their History, Development, and Construction. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.
- General Collection, ML960 .B38 1978
- Fasman, Mark J. Brass Bibliography: Sources on the History, Literature, Pedagogy, Performance, and Acoustics of Brass Instruments. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Reference, ML128.W5 F3 1990
- Guion, David M. A History of the Trombone. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010.
- General Collection, Quarto ML965 .G83 2010
- Guion, David M. The Trombone: Its History and Music. New York: Gordon and Breach Science, 1988.
- General Collection, ML965 .G84 1988
- Horne, Aaron. Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Reference, ML128.W5 H62 1996
- Lane, G.B. The Trombone: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999.
- Reference, ML128.T76 L36 1999
- Meckna, Michael. Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1994.=
- Reference, ML399 .M4 1994
- McGill, David. Sound in Motion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.
- General Collection, MT170 .M34 2007
- Weisberg, Arthur. The Art of Wind Playing. New York: Schirmer Books, 1975.
- General Collection, MT339 .W45 1975
Interested in browsing trumpet-specific journals? Check out these periodicals (current periodicals are just past the circulation desk in the rack on the wall, and older issues of print periodicals are located to your right when you first enter the Music Library):
- Brass Bulletin
- Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals section
- Available online through Music Periodicals Database
- Historical Brass Society Journal
- Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals section
- Available online through Music Periodicals Database
- Historical Brass Society Newsletter
- Available in print at the Music Library, General Collection, Quarto ML929.5
- Available online through Music Periodicals Database
- International Trombone Association Journal
- Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals section
- Available online through Music Periodicals Database
- Online Trombone Journal
- Available online through the University Libraries Catalog (click the Free e-Journals link in this catalog record)
- Available online through the University Libraries Catalog (click the Free e-Journals link in this catalog record)
- National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal
- Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals section
- Available online through Music Periodicals Database