Instruments of Music

This volume offers a full chapter discussion of digital instruments in the twenty-first century with an emphasis on how synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and computer effects such as auto-tune have taken on a greater role in chart-topping pop music.

Readers will learn about the rising popularity of the tuba in banda music in Mexico and Southern California in what is being called the "e;tuba revolution."e; Additional information about country instruments such as the fiddle and standup bass are explained.

Each chapter focuses on the history of a different family of instruments; percussion, woodwinds, brass, strings, keyboards, and digital instruments.