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International Magazine for Brass Players

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Browse Brass Bulletin articles published since 1971. Search by topic, subject, instrument, author, series or issue, with new material added as the digital edition grows.

My contacts with the United States Member
No. 17 • 1977 Digitized

Part 2

My contacts with the United States

About horns and how to play them

Double horn, descant, natural horn — which path? This article explores American vs German approaches and what it means to train a complete horn player.

By Michael Höltzel

Report Professional life American school German school Sociology
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Member
No. 21 • 1978 Digitized

Brass players athletes

Brass players are athletes. Bengt Belfrage reveals how training, recovery, breathing, and mental focus—borrowed from sport—can transform performance and endurance.

By Bengt Belfrage

Technique Health Endurance Breathing Nerves
No. 84 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Part 4

DSA - Digital analysis of intonation and sound

Tuning with the computer

By Robert Meissner

Technique Acoustics
Editorial Free
No. 32 • 1980 Digitized

Editorial

Progress by Stages

Between technical routine and lived experience, musical growth emerges through setbacks, observation and the gradual shaping of an individual voice.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Health Nerves Interpretation Ideas
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

The corno da caccia in the music of J. S. Bach

By Ludwig Güttler

Repertoire
Low register development for the trombone Member
No. 13 • 1976 Digitized

Low register development for the trombone

Should you really drop the jaw for low notes? James Fulkerson challenges this idea and proposes a more stable approach to extend the low register.

By James Fulkerson

Technique Range Sound
300 Years of the Horn in Bohemia Free
No. 31 • 1980 Digitized

300 Years of the Horn in Bohemia

An unsigned portrait from the Dresden court links the rise of Bohemian horn playing to the ceremonial world of Baroque hunting culture.

By Kurt Janetzky

History Society Historical instruments Interpretation Sociology
No. 88 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

Thomas Gschladt

An Historical Perspective of an 18th Century Trombonist

By J. Richard Raum

History
Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris Member
No. 18 • 1977 Digitized

Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris

What if everything you control is wrong? This radical approach to brass playing shifts focus away from the embouchure — back to the true origin of breath and sound.

By Alfred Willener

Technique Teaching Breathing Sound Tongue
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The role of the (contra)bass trombone in the Vienna sound

By Gerhard Zechmeister

History Equipment
No. 69 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

A brief survey of the historical evolution of our instruments

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report History
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

United Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna

A tonal concept unites the brass section

By Gerhard Zechmeister

Technique Instrument Makers
Free
No. 37 • 1982 Digitized

The Annual Competitions of the Paris Conservatoire

From commissioned works to jury voting, a long-standing examination tradition reveals how brass players progressed through the Paris Conservatoire.

By Benny Sluchin

Competition Teaching French school Contemporary Music Solo playing
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Discovery of the 'Turmsonaten' written in 1803

By Michael Kircheis

History Repertoire
The Horn is my instrument Free
No. 4 • 1973 Digitized

The Horn is my instrument

Personal reflection on the horn as an instrument, exploring artistic identity, sound ideals and the player’s relationship to the instrument.

By Georges Barboteu

Encounters
No. 122 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Big discovery in Italy! Perfection for everyone!

By Otto Ottone

Backstage
Edna White Member
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Edna White

A Woman and a Life in the Service of the Trumpet

At a time when the cornet still ruled, Edna White made the trumpet a solo voice, building a career across concert halls, radio, recordings and new repertoire.

By Michel Laplace

History Solo playing
Drollery in the medieval representation of musical subjects Free
No. 9 • 1974 Digitized

Drollery in the medieval representation of musical subjects

Study of medieval drolleries in musical imagery, exploring humorous and symbolic representations of musicians and instruments in Gothic art.

By Franz Georg Von Glasenapp

History Illustrations
Jazz and the Horn Member
No. 40 • 1982 Digitized

Jazz and the Horn Series • Part 1

Jazz and the Horn

The horn was once considered incompatible with jazz until changing ideas of sound and musicians like John Graas quietly overturned that certainty.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Repertoire History Jazz Improvisation
No. 78 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

The American Horn Quartet

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 107 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Werkstatt & Musikhaus Schagerl

At the service of brasses

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

The soprano trombone

By Jörg Richter

History
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