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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.

Listening Member
No. 38 • 1982 Digitized

Listening

Musical listening begins where judgment ends, as Jeffrey Agrell questions habits of criticism, recordings and expectation that shape every performance.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Society Sociology Mental approach Ideas
No. 117 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Quotables

By Thomas Stevens

Backstage
No. 92 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

New Thein Bass Trombone Innovations

By Ben van Dijk

Equipment
No. 74 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Bruno Schneider

Tale of a tall talent

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Fundamental trombone performance technique Member
No. 49 • 1985 Digitized

Fundamental trombone performance technique

Teaching and application

Technique becomes musicianship when breathing, vibration, resonance, articulation and slide movement cease to be separate skills and begin working as one.

By William F. Cramer

Technique Teaching Breathing Sound Articulation
No. 107 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

The universal trumpet of Gabriele Cassone
No. 115 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

The universal trumpet of Gabriele Cassone

Baroque instruments, Berio and neglected Italian music meet in Cassone’s unusually broad conception of what a modern trumpeter can be.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Historical instruments Contemporary Music
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

A 349 year old horn made by Michael Nagel in Graz

By Friedrich Körner

History Equipment
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

Does Jazz still have a soul?

By Michel Laplace

Society Jazz
Johann Ernst Altenburg (1736-1801) Member
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

Johann Ernst Altenburg (1736-1801)

The last representative of the heroic art of the trumpeter and drummer

A trumpeter caught between a fading guild tradition and a changing musical world left a 1795 treatise that became an essential witness to a disappearing art.

By Arno Werner

History
The Leningrad School of Horn Playing Member
No. 27 • 1979 Digitized

The Leningrad School of Horn Playing

From St. Petersburg to the Soviet era, generations of horn players shaped a distinctive approach to sound, interpretation, and orchestral playing.

By Frøydis Ree Wekre

History Teaching Russian school Interpretation Sound
Mikhail Innokentiévitch Tabakov (1877-1958) Member
No. 22 • 1978 Digitized

Mikhail Innokentiévitch Tabakov (1877-1958)

Founder of the Soviet trumpet school

A towering figure of trumpet history: Tabakov shaped generations—including the legendary Timofei Dokchitzer—and laid the foundations of the Soviet trumpet school.

By G. Orvid, S. Riaouzov

History Teaching Russian school Sound Interpretation
Hygienics of the teeth Free
No. 19 • 1977 Digitized

Hygienics of the teeth

Your embouchure starts with your teeth. This essential guide reveals why gum health—not just cavities—determines a brass player’s long-term sound and control.

By Michel G. Corti

Health Teeth
No. 78 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Jan Hasenöhrl. Trumpet in freedom

Special Czechoslovakia

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 90 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Georges Barboteu

An inspired and poetic hornist

By André Cazalet

Encounters
No. 64 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Our journey to the USSR

Special USSR

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report
The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum

A mysterious three-coil trumpet in Nuremberg defies familiar instrument types, with no maker, date or clear explanation of how it entered a postal collection.

By Albert Hiller

Equipment Historical instruments
Russian music and musicians before 1700 Member
No. 7 • 1974 Digitized

Russian music and musicians before 1700

with special regard to Brass Music

Overview of Russian music and musicians before 1700, exploring early traditions, influences and the role of brass instruments.

By Walter Salmen

History Repertoire Russian school Historical instruments
No. 88 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

No. 106 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

James Thatcher, the horn of Hollywood

By Jeremy Mathez, Robert L. Watt

Encounters
What is a Brass Band? Free
No. 25 • 1979 Digitized

What is a Brass Band?

Barrie Perrins traces the 19th-century origins, instrumentation and social role of the brass band—from industrial roots to international musical life.

By Barrie Perrins

History Society Sociology Band
No. 123 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

René Spada - “So why couldn’t it be done better?”

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
No. 114 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The art of chamber music

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Technique Repertoire
No. 73 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Bremen, city open to music

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

History
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