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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.

No. 100 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Quintette Magnifica, flowers in the Bell!

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 63 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Stockholm Chamber Brass

1st Prize, Narbonne 1988

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Encounters Competition
Why pretend to be Mozart? Member
No. 12 • 1975 Digitized

Why pretend to be Mozart?

The concerto’s cadenza: copy of style — or bold but true?

Should a cadenza imitate the past—or speak in today’s voice? Bernhard Krol questions the tradition of stylistic imitation and argues for cadenzas that bridge past and present with authenticity.

By Bernhard Krol

Repertoire Ideas Interpretation
Contemporary Hungarian Brass Music Free
No. 26 • 1979 Digitized

Contemporary Hungarian Brass Music

From early decline to recent revival, Hungarian brass emerges through pedagogy, competitions and new chamber works, with Varasdy outlining key figures and shifting ensemble practices.

By Frigyes Varasdy

Repertoire Teaching Contemporary Music
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Horn models in high E flat

By Engelberg Schmid

Technique
No. 79 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Vicente Lopez

Heir apparent

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The alto trombone and contemporary concepts of trombone timbre Member
No. 28 • 1979 Digitized

The alto trombone and contemporary concepts of trombone timbre

Alto trombone timbre from Vienna to Brahms, orchestral balance, period practice, and why bright brass sounds gradually disappeared.

By William E. Runyan

Repertoire Equipment Historical instruments Sound Interpretation
Overlays and bonding Free
No. 49 • 1985 Digitized

Overlays and bonding

New dental aids for brass players

A trumpeter’s dental experiments in the 1980s turned teeth, mouthpiece pressure and embouchure into an unexpected field of collaboration with dentistry.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Health Technique Teeth Endurance Range
No. 96 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

The Lake Placid International Trumpet Seminar

By James Thompson

Report Event
Music in an American Frontier Communal Society Member
No. 34 • 1981 Digitized

Part 1

Music in an American Frontier Communal Society

Aurora Colony

In a German communal settlement on the Oregon frontier, bands, choirs and original compositions shaped daily life as strongly as faith, work and education.

By Deborah M. Olsen

History Society Sociology Brass Ensemble Historical instruments
The untimely demise of the ophicleide Member
No. 43 • 1983 Digitized

The untimely demise of the ophicleide

Once central to French orchestras, the ophicleide lost its place to the tuba—a disappearance shaped as much by institutions and repertoire as by sound.

By Stephen J. Weston

Equipment History Historical instruments Instrument making Orchestral playing
No. 71 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

The arab Trumpet III (end) - The Art of Improvisation

The Art of Improvisation

By Nassim Maalouf

Report History
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Dutch Horn Society 1982-1992

Special Holland

By Louise Schepel

Report
The Eyes
No. 60 • 1987 Awaiting digitization

Brass Techniques Series • Part 7

The Eyes

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Technique
No. 88 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

History of brasses in Bulgaria

By Vassil Todorov

Report History
No. 102 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Part 11

Dental Clinic for Wind Players

Median space method

By Toshio Nemoto

Health Teeth
No. 90 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Barcs 1984 Free
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Special Hungary

Barcs 1984

First International Brass Ensemble Competition

A small Hungarian town became a testing ground for brass chamber music, where young ensembles showed how quickly the discipline was coming of age.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Competition Report Brass Ensemble
No. 79 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Dung Chen

A brief look at the long trumpet of Tibet

By Brian Pertl

Report Equipment
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

The 18th Century Trombone

Rumors of its death were premature

By J. Richard Raum

History
No. 71 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

Tubes - Tritones - Theses

By Patrice Sciortino

Equipment Ideas
No. 68 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Madrid Expomusica 1989

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report
No. 106 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Fernand Lelong, half a century of tuba in France

By Jeremy Mathez

Encounters
No. 85 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Part 5

DSA - Digital analysis of intonation and sound

Hearing

By Robert Meissner

Technique Acoustics
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Brass Bulletin was published in English, French, and German throughout its history. Italian and Spanish translations were added from issue No. 60 onward.

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