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abstract: This thesis proposes an augmentation of the Complete Method for Trombone by Jean Baptiste Arban. Although it is widely considered one of the leading trombone method books in the world, a thorough consideration of the demands of most performed solo literature today reveals serious shortcomings in the Arban Method for preparing trombonists to encounter such demands as meter and rhythm, keys and tonalities, range and endurance, clefs and F-attachment usage. This thesis thus proposes additions for a new version of the Arban Method that better aligns with the playing demands of the most performed solo literature today, as compiled by the International Trombone Association Journal since 1972. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2018

Rares sont les musiciens de la famille des cuivres qui ignorent de nos jours le nom de Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889). Son attachement au cornet à pistons et au Conservatoire de Paris a cependant relégué dans l’ombre ses autres activités : composition, enseignement, direction d’orchestre et entrepreneuriat. Afin de les faire mieux connaître, nous avons pu réunir une importante documentation issue d’archives, publiques et privées, ainsi que de la presse de son temps. Ces documents nous ont permis de mettre en évidence l’ensemble des faits relatifs à sa vie et à son œuvre, concernant tout un pan de la vie parisienne, de la monarchie de Juillet à la IIIe République. Comptant quelque 700 entrées, le catalogue d’œuvres que nous avons établi illustre aussi la richesse de sa production musicale, principalement liée à la danse et au divertissement. En retraçant le parcours atypique de cette célèbre figure musicale du XIXe siècle, de sa jeunesse passée à Lyon dans une famille d’artificiers à la direction des bals de l’Opéra, l’auteur de cette thèse espère apporter une contribution efficace à l’histoire de la société française de cette époque. / Few brass musicians today are not familiar with the name of Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889). However, his commitment to the cornet as well as to the Conservatoire may have overshadowed his other activities: composition, musical education, conducting and entrepreneurial actions. In order to make them known, we have managed to collect substantial information from private and public archives and extracts of contemporary press. Such documents have allowed us to bring to the fore all the events connected with his life in Paris from the July Monarchy to the Third Republic. With about 700 entries, this catalogue illustrates how rich his musical production was (mainly linked to dance and entertainment). Thanks to such a review of the atypical career of this famous figure of music in the 19th century, going from his youth in a family of firework makers in Lyon to conducting dance at the Opera House, the writer of this thesis expects to make a significant contribution to the history of French society in those days.