280 pages of words, pictures, and informationof interest to anyone having a fascination about thois versatile instrument. Many pictures of past and present day tubists, Bios of historical greats and leading professionals of present day. History of the tuba. Extensive technical discussion including fingering charts of regular and substitute fingerings for tubas in all keys. Unusual tubas. Giant tubas. Orchestra excerpts and intonation tips.
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And now your book! I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing this. It's the thing I've been wanting to learn about all my life, a technical study of the BBb Tuba. -- Henry Howland, Aberdeen, MD
I want to express y appreciation for the wonderful book "A Treatise on the Tuba". I have derived a vast amount of pleasure fromn it. -- James Jennings, Dalton, GA
I want to express y appreciation for the wonderful book "A Treatise on the Tuba". I have derived a vast amount of pleasure fromn it. -- James Jennings, Dalton, GA
About the Author
Donald Stauffer earned a BM and MM and performers certificate at Eastman from 1937 to 1942, and concurrently played tuba and doublebass in the Rochester Philharmonic and Civic Orchestras under Jose Iturbi and Guy Frazier Harrison from 1939 to 1942. He entered the Navy Band in 1942 during which tenure he earned a Ph.D, at the Catholic University in 1954. After conducting two Navy bands (as a Warrant Officer) in New York City and Norfolk, and serving as Head of the Academic Training Department at the Navy School of Music, he was selected to be leader of the United States Navy Band in 1969.He retired as a Commander in 1973 to be an Associate Professor of Music at Birmingham Southern College. He still conducts the Birmingham Community Concert Band which he founded in 1980. He manages gthe Stauffer Press, making available over 40 personal compositions and arrangements for band, and five books. His Intonation Deficiencies of Wind Instruments, a CU Dissertation, has be! en reprinted and is widely quoted as an authoritative reference on the subject. His Treatise on the Tuba has also sold well in the worldwide tuba community. He has conducted concerts in Japan, Australia, and Germany, and his best known compositions, Fugue 'N Swing, Canine Capers, and "U.S.S.Kennedy March' have been performed internationally.
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