About

Purpose

TromboneResources.com is for trombonists with a deep interest in the orchestral repertoire for trombone, and for anyone else who shares that trombone-centric interest. The site grows weekly with multiple compositions added every week.

Acknowledgment of Sources

This resource could not exist without the work of others. The site links to all orchestral works cataloged at tromboneexcerpts.org, the well-regarded resource created by Seth T. Vatt and widely used for trombone excerpt study. Other individual excerpt resources are also used (too numerous to list). The Petrucci Music Library at IMSLP is another essential foundation: almost every composition cited here links directly to scores and trombone parts available through IMSLP.

YouTube provides access to full recordings, allowing complete performances of works with trombone parts to be heard in their entirety. Wikipedia supplies historical background on individual compositions and their composers.

What This Site Adds

While all of this information has existed for some time on the internet, this is the first effort to bring it together in one place – organized by composer and by individual composition—specifically from a trombone perspective.

An original feature of this site is the inclusion of the clefs and ranges for each trombone part in each composition, information that is often scattered, implicit, or omitted elsewhere.

Companion YouTube Channel

TromboneResources.com has a companion YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@tromboneresources/playlists ) featuring playlists organized by composer, each containing works that include trombones in the instrumentation.

Purpose and Philosophy

It is hoped this website becomes another free, practical resource for trombonists. One that advances understanding of the orchestral trombone literature and supports higher levels of trombone performance.

About the Author

This website is created and maintained by Alan Coates, who has played the trombone since the 1960s and holds trombone performance degrees from Stetson University (1971) and Indiana University (1973).

Independence and Privacy

TromboneResources.com is ad-free, unsponsored, has no outside funding, and collects no information from visitors to the site.