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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. 118 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Concerts in Russia

The tale of a memorable voyage, by English euphonium virtuoso Steven Mead

By Steven Mead

Event
No. 99 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Michael Thompson, Off-the-cuff commentary

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Competition
Why pretend to be Mozart? Free
No. 14 • 1976 Digitized

Why pretend to be Mozart?

Reply to Bernhard Krol

Should a cadenza imitate Mozart? Peter Damm argues for stylistic fidelity without imitation—at the heart of a debate with Bernhard Krol.

By Peter Damm

Repertoire Interpretation Ornaments Ideas
Glenn Ferris - Profile Member
No. 23 • 1978 Digitized

Glenn Ferris - Profile

Beyond fame and labels: Glenn Ferris rejects the music business game—defining a raw, uncompromising vision of creativity, freedom, and what it means to truly play.

By Lee Underwood

Encounters Professional life Freelance Jazz
No. 85 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Part 5

DSA - Digital analysis of intonation and sound

Hearing

By Robert Meissner

Technique Acoustics
Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942) Free
No. 51 • 1985 Digitized

Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942)

Discovery of unpublished trumpet studies

Forgotten in Leningrad for decades, Trognée’s unpublished trumpet studies reconnect the Belgian virtuoso with a European tradition his Russian career had obscured.

By Anatoly Selianin

Repertoire History
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Fred Mills, exit Canadian Brass, new future

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 119 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 5

A player’s first years

The opinion of an expert

By James Thompson

Teaching Technique
Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617) Member
No. 17 • 1977 Digitized

Part 1

Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)

Biography

Cesare Bendinelli (1542–1617), imperial trumpeter and teacher, shaped a tradition and wrote the first trumpet method — a key document of Renaissance brass playing.

By Edward H. Tarr

History Historical instruments Sociology
No. 73 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Jean Douay

Trombone in the heart of France

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 110 • 2000 Awaiting digitization

Maurice André

A phenomenal artistic achievement

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Round the Horn Free
No. 44 • 1983 Digitized

Round the Horn

Hamburg 1982

A 1982 Hamburg exhibition brought 150 horns out of collections and into players’ hands, collapsing centuries of hunting, signalling and concert traditions into one room.

By Michael Höltzel

History Event Historical instruments
No. 107 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The trombone according to orchestration treatises (France 1700-1914)

By Raymond Lapie

History
No. 96 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Lieksa Brass Week 1996

By Benny Sluchin

Report Event
No. 63 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Unknown trumpet works which deserve attention

Joseph Riepel (1709-1782), Concerto in D major

By Albert Hiller

Repertoire
No. 119 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 4

The modern concert hall

Spreading walls, shrinking sound

By Sabina Pade

Report History Acoustics
Lauri Ojala Member
No. 53 • 1986 Digitized

Special Finland

Lauri Ojala

Finnish trumpet virtuoso

A Finnish trumpet legend recalls orchestral life, the Geneva Competition, teaching, instruments and the cool-headed musicianship behind a remarkable career.

By Timo Mäkinen

Encounters
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Stanko Arnold

Yugoslavia's Trumpet Virtuoso

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The classical solo concerto for trombone and its interpreters in the 19th century Member
No. 25 • 1979 Digitized

The classical solo concerto for trombone and its interpreters in the 19th century

From Queisser to Ferdinand David: the rise—and disappearance—of the classical trombone concerto in the 19th century reveals a forgotten golden age of virtuosity.

By Werner Beyer

History Repertoire Solo playing
No. 116 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Valentine Snow (1700-1770)

By Brian Proksch

History
No. 57 • 1987 Awaiting digitization

José de Juan Martínez's tutor for the circular hand-stopped trumpet (1830)

By Beryl Kenyon De Pascual

History Teaching
Comments on the First International Brass Congress Free
No. 15 • 1976 Digitized

Comments on the First International Brass Congress

Montreux 1976

National styles or personal voice? Roger Bobo finds in Montreux that individuality prevails—yet notes the absence of key traditions.

By Roger Bobo

Report Event Sociology Ideas
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra

By Daniel Scheidegger

Report History
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Giovanni Puzzi: a yardstick for horn playing in 19th century Britain

By Bradley Strauchen

History Encounters
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