The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments edited by Trevor Herbert and John Wallace. Cambridge University Press, 1997, PB, 360 pages. This book provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their technical and musical development. Much of the volume is devoted to the way brass instruments have been used in classical music, but there are also important contributions on the ancient world, non-Western music, vernacular and popular traditions and the rise of jazz. The editors are two of the most respected names in the world of brass performance and scholarship, and the list of contributors (Trevor Herbert, John Wallace, Margaret Sarkissian, Arnold Myers, Robert Barclay, Keith Polk, Bruce Dickey, Edward H. Tarr, Thomas Hiebert, Ralph T. Dudgeon, Clifford Bevan, Simon Wills, Phillip Eastop, Robert Evans, and Roger Dean) includes the names of many of the world's most prestigious scholars and performers.