The instrument: its parts and their development
The origins of the trombone
Players and cultures in the later Renaissance
Performances and repertoires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Decline, survival and rehabilitation: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Didacticism and the idea of virtuosity
The trombone in the modern orchestra
Valve trombones and other nineteenth-century introductions
The Moravians and other popular religions
Orchestral trombone playing in the age of sound recordings
Modernism, postmodernism and retrospection
Appendix 1: Surviving instruments from before 1800
Appendix 2: Centres of trombone repertoire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Appendix 3: Slide trombone methods: an indicative list
Appendix 4: Valve trombone methods: an indicative list
Appendix 5: Orchestral trombone sections, c. 1780-c. 1930
Appendix 6: C.G. Conn endorsements, c.1928.
