The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world -- The trumpet: definition, manufacture and technique -- The trumpet in Europe and its environs to 1600 -- The art of the trumpet player in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Italy and the imperial court at Vienna in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the trumpet writing of Handel, Telemann and Bach -- France and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Concertos of Haydn and Hummel -- The trumpet and its players in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The 'Bach revival', 'Bach' trumpets, and the advent of the piccolo trumpet -- Repertoire, technique and performance idioms since 1900 -- Jazz and the image of the trumpet since 1900 --