The instrument: its parts and their development
Trombone technique
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
Popular music
The Moravians and other popular religions
Orchestral trombone playing in the age of sound recordings
Jazz
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.