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BrassBulletin

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.

ASA-Method Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

ASA-Method

From Bach’s clarino tradition to modern piccolo trumpet playing, extreme high-register technique is tied here to breath support, pressure control and disciplined endurance.

By Rolf Quinque

Technique Teaching Breathing Range Endurance
No. 104 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Epsilon - Epsival - 1998

5th Annual Brass & Percussion Festival (France)

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Event
No. 114 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Musikmesse - Frankfurt

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Event
No. 113 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversary Conference - May 24-27, 2000

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Event
No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Meeting Louie: Miami 1960

By Irving Bush

Report History
Maurice Ravel and the new trombone Member
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

Maurice Ravel and the new trombone

Dance-band trombonists reshaped orchestral expectations in the 1920s and 30s, leaving their mark on Ravel’s Boléro and a generation of players.

By Michel Laplace

History Technique Articulation Jazz Sound
Music in an American Frontier Communal Society Member
No. 35 • 1981 Digitized

Part 2

Music in an American Frontier Communal Society

Aurora Colony

Music shaped daily life in Aurora’s communal colony, from civic ceremonies and political events to touring brass bands that carried its identity across the American West.

By Deborah M. Olsen

History Society Repertoire Sociology Brass Ensemble
No. 79 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Dieter Otto

A passionate craftman

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Part 1

The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music

Jazz did not invent the modern trombone: early virtuosos, New Orleans players and changing techniques reveal a more complex path toward flexibility and legato.

By Michel Laplace

History Technique Jazz Articulation
Editorial Free
No. 54 • 1986 Digitized

Editorial

A wealth of Baroque music lies dormant in libraries, caught between historical instrument names, technical demands, and the competing claims of horn and trumpet players.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Repertoire History Historical instruments
On hunting horns and other similar instruments Member
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

On hunting horns and other similar instruments

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

Hunting horns, buccinae and cornets blur into one another as Trichet links ancient signals, shepherds, hunters and myth to the instruments of his own age.

By Pierre Trichet

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Toulon 1995

International trombone competition

By Roland Schnohrk

Competition
The Trumpet Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

The Trumpet

An exhibition at the Trumpeter's Castel in Bad Säckingen

Natural trumpets from Verona, Nürnberg and Vienna framed a 1979 gathering in Säckingen linking Baroque practice, collecting culture and modern playing.

By Kurt Janetzky

History Event Historical instruments Valves
No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Stephen Burns, Talent on the lookout

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 108 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Paxman Bros Ltd, the force of destiny

By Jeremy Mathez

Equipment
No. 113 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Part 18

Dental Clinic for Wind Players

Influence of the lateral teeth upon sound production

By Toshio Nemoto

Health Teeth
Editorial Member
No. 37 • 1982 Digitized

Editorial

As music becomes increasingly industrialized, Jean-Pierre Mathez argues for restoring local musical communities where composers, performers and audiences shape a shared identity.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society Sociology Ideas Contemporary Music
Tell it the way it is: Free
No. 22 • 1978 Digitized

Tell it the way it is:

A viewpoint of professional trumpet playing in the United States

A brutal reality check: Irving Bush exposes the gap between musical dreams and professional truth—revealing the harsh economics behind a career in trumpet playing.

By Irving Bush

Professional life Report Freelance Auditions American school
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

John Smithies, trombonist & enigma

By John Humphries

History Encounters
No. 65 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Barcs

Building the future

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report
No. 117 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

A player’s first years

Oral instruction, written instruction

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Technique
Alto Trombone - New Modell Free
No. 40 • 1982 Digitized

Alto Trombone - New Modell

A forgotten solution to Baroque virtuosity meets modern orchestral demands, where historical ideals and practical performance no longer follow the same path.

By Heinrich Thein, Max Thein

Instrument Makers Equipment
A woman trombonist, Yvelise Girard Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

A woman trombonist, Yvelise Girard

Women and Brass

From Paris conservatories to police bands, a young trombonist confronts isolation, scrutiny and ambition as women slowly enter the brass world.

By Jean Douay

Society Professional life Sociology Auditions Orchestral playing
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Brass in British culture - is it extinct?

By David Gordon Shute, John Wallace

Society
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