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Brass Instruments

Basic resources for finding information on and music for brass instruments

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This research guide will help you find resources about and music for trumpet, cornet, and bugle that are available in the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library or online.

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Cornet

                                              

John Augustus Köhler, B-flat cornet, ca. 1849, London, brass & silver-plated, height 13", bell diameter 4-7/8", Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503545        

Historical Trumpets

Edward Tarr, The Trumpet , trans. S.E. Plank and Edward Tarr (Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1988),154-55.

Trumpet

Vassily Kandinsky. 1928. Picture XVI. The Great Gate of Kiev watercolor. Place: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. http://library.artstor.org.ezproxy.uky.edu/asset/AWSS35953_35953_30943503.