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The trombone is suited to a wide variety of musical styles, including [[jazz]], big band and marching bands. Military bands often contain one or more tromboners.
The trombone is suited to a wide variety of musical styles, including [[jazz]], big band and marching bands. Military bands often contain one or more tromboners.
===History===
The trombone is essentially the same instrument as the late medieval [[sackbut]] which had a major role in the royal ceremonial bands of the day. Up until the late baroque period (mid-1700s) it appeared mainly as a vocal/choral accompaniment in masses and operas and rarely in purely instrumental works. With the death of [[Handel]] (1759) it was little used for a generation and when it reappeared, it was as the [[Italian]] “trombone”.
Mozart used it to great effect in his last [[opera]]s, as did [[Weber]], and with [[Beethoven]] and [[Schubert]] – writing in the early 19th century – it began appearing in [[symphonic]]works. It found its dramatic niche in the works of [[Berlioz]] and [[Wagner]], and the later romantics; although later French and Italian composers tended to ignore the bass versions of the instrument, preferring the [[tuba]].
It has always been a major component of folk and village bands, from whence the American and European brass bands derived.
[[Category:Musical Instruments]]
[[Category:Musical Instruments]]