Keyed Bugle FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The second edition of The Keyed Bugle is a substantive expansion and updating of the original with major additions that include an enlarged performance practice section for beginning students. Also included are additional performer, maker, and seller listings, and a new chapter on the distinct acoustics of keyed bugles." The Keyed Bugle puts the best of current research on the instrument into book form and provides the collector, performer, and serious music student with a clear picture of the instrument's history, repertoire, and technique.
SYNOPSIS
This second edition of a definitive work on the keyed bugle includes an enlarged performance practice section for beginning students, plus new listings of performers, makers, and sellers of key bugles. There are new chapters on the acoustics of keyed bugles and on bugle manufacturing at specific firms. The book provides collectors, performers, and students with a clear picture of the instrument's history, repertoire, and technique. Dudgeon, a musician and conductor, teaches music at the State University of New York-Cortland. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
FROM THE CRITICS
NACWPI Journal
Dudgeon succeeds in providing us with a solid background of the keyed bugle...not only a fine historical source but a guide book for anyone interested in attempting to purchase, study or commit further research to the subject. A very extensive bibliography is included as well as a helpful index...very highly recommended....
Journal Of The American Musical Instrument Society
...with this splendid little book Ralph T. Dudgeon rescues the keyed bugle from oblivion...Dudgeon's study represents a significant addition to the history of music....
Booknews
An Irish bandmaster named Joseph Haliday added woodwind-style keys to the military bugle in 1810, creating a flexible brass instrument that was widely used in bands, opera, social orchestras, parlor music, and even circus music. Dudgeon chronicles the life of the instrument through its golden era in Europe and America in the 1830s and 1840s. Includes musical examples and other illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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