Another important figure in the literature is Bertram Turetzky, who published The Contemporary Contrabass in 1974,34 the first

in the New Instrumentation series of handbooks on modern instrumental technique by University of California Press. He continues to commission and oversee the series, taken over by Scarecrow Press in 2004, which currently numbers nine volumes.35 Like Bartolozzi, Turetzky begins with a call for experimentation and an expansion of sound materials:

The starting point of this work is a re-evaluation of pizzicato technique, until recently a barren wastelandApparently littleheed was paid to [Berlioz comments on pizzicato in his Treatise on Instrumentation]36

The passage from Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation referred to by Turetzky is as follows:

In the future the pizzicato will doubtless be used in even more original and attractive effects than here to fore. Violinists, not considering the pizzicato an integral part of violin technique, have given it hardly any serious attentionplayers will doubtless become familiar with [a wider range of] techniques in the course of time. Then composers will be able to take full advantage of them.37
A new edition was published in 1989. The titles are as follows, in order of first publication: Bertram Turetzky, The Contemporary Contrabass (Berkley: University of California Press, 1974). This title was republished in 1982. Thomas Howell, The Avant-Garde Flute: A Handbook for Composers and Flautists (Berkley: University of California Press, 1974). Stuart Dempster, The Modern Trombone: a Definition of its Idioms (Berkley: University of California Press, 1979). Philip Rehfeldt, New Directions for Clarinet, (Berkley: University of California Press, 1977). This title was republished in 1994. John Schneider, The Contemporary Guitar (Berkley: University of California Press, 1985). Ruth Inglefield and Lou Anne Neill, Writing for the Pedal Harp: a Standardised manual for Composers and Performers (Berkley: University of California Press, 1985). Patricia and Allen Strange, The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques (Berkley: University of California Press, 2001). Libby Van Cleve, Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques (Lanham Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2004). Michael Edward Edgerton, The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-normal Voice (Lanham Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2005). 36 Turetzky, The Contemporary Contrabass, 1. 37 Hector Berlioz, Treatise on Instrumentation, 35-6.
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