Finding Repertoire for the Trumpet:
If you're looking for new repertoire to perform, it is often helpful to browse the Music Library's scores. The following call number ranges are for trumpet music; individual works within these numbers are arranged alphabetically by composer or arranger:
- M85-M89, Trumpet alone
- M260-M261, Trumpet and piano
- M357.2, Brass trios
- M557.4, Brass quintets
- M1030, Trumpet with orchestra (full score)
- M1031, Trumpet with orchestra (piano reduction)
- M1130, Trumpet with string orchestra (full score)
- M1131, Trumpet with string orchestra (piano reduction)
- M1366, Jazz ensembles
Excerpts, etudes, and instructional materials are classified in the MT range and housed in the same location as books:
- MT440, General works
- MT442, Systems and methods
- MT445, Studies and exercises
- MT446, Orchestral studies (excerpts)
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Check out the Library Search which finds print and electronic items, including journal and newspaper articles, book chapters, books, reviews, legal documents, and much more. Note: Due to licensing restrictions, some content is only available to current students, faculty, and staff.
Selected Book on the Trumpet and Trumpet Players
Twentieth Century Music for Trumpet and Orchestra by Call Number: ML128 .T78 C34 1994
The Art of Trumpet Teaching: The Legacy of Keith JohnsonCall Number: E-book, Online Access
Desperado by
Tomasz Stanko is arguably the greatest jazz musician Poland has ever produced. His career spanned almost 60 years until his death in 2018. A visionary trumpeter and composer, a protege of Krzysztof Komeda and a colleague of musicians from Poland, Sweden, Norway, Britain, Cuba and the USA, his impact on jazz internationally was profound, proving that jazz was not exclusively an American art form but truly world-wide. In 2014 he was awarded the Polytika Passport in Poland, the Prix de musician European in Paris and the Preis der deutschen schallplattenkritik. The book is a no-holds-barred extended interview with broadcaster Rafal Ksiezyk originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie.
Call Number: ML419 .S73 A3 2022
Groovin' High by
Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best loved musicians in jazz history. With his dark glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the basic jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years. In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory. Shipton traces the Gillespie-Parker relationship, starting in the bands of Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine in the early 1940s, to their famous 1944-46 group that set the form for bebop, and culminating in their extraordinary concert at Massey Hall in Toronto in 1953. Shipton also explores the dark side of Dizzy's mostly sunny personal life, his womanizing, the illegitimate daughter he fathered and supported--now a respected jazz singer in her own right--and his sometimes needless cruelty to others. For anyone interested in jazz and one of its most innovative and appealing figures, Groovin' High is essential reading.
Call Number: E-book, Online Access
Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz Giant by
Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant is the first biography of the spectacular trumpeter, Roy 'Little Jazz' Eldridge, whose style is universally recognised as the all-important link between the playing of Louis Armstrong and the achievements of modernist, Dizzy Gillespie. The indignities he experienced and overcame during the 1940s while working in otherwise all-white ensembles proved he was as bold a social pioneer as he was a performer.
Call Number: ML419 .E37 C54 2003
The Trumpet by Call Number: E-book, Online Access- Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet by Call Number: ML399 .Y36 2001
