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Japanese painting from the 18th century
An 18th-century Okinawan scroll preserves a ceremonial procession where Chinese-derived instruments, including the rapa trumpet, marked diplomatic exchange with Japan.
Por Fujio Nakayama
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Editorial
Between tradition and innovation: brass players must move beyond routine and embrace new musical directions to remain relevant in the music of tomorrow.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
Bloomington’s brass congress raises an awkward question: can international exchange flourish when one country’s institutions, calendar and priorities set the terms?
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
A life that shaped a century: Jean-Pierre Mathez introduces the extraordinary rise of Maurice André—an artist whose brilliance transformed the modern trumpet.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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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.
Por Jean Douay
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Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
Aurora’s bands, chamber groups and restored instruments show how communal faith, German heritage and American public life met in sound, from parlors to parades.
Por Deborah M. Olsen
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A Trombone Martyr
Auguste Léonard de la Tuilerie
A Paris apothecary turned trombone evangelist challenges 19th-century musical habits, imagining the slide trombone as the future voice of harmony.
Por Benny Sluchin
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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.
Por Kurt Janetzky
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Editorial
From cultural codes to personal sincerity, Jean-Pierre Mathez questions how musicians recognise truth across styles, traditions and musical languages.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Yamaha, an ambitious giant
Behind the rise of a future industrial giant lies an unexpected lesson in craftsmanship, cultural exchange and the discipline that reshaped wind instrument making.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
When careers pause and certainty fades, real progress begins in private, where discipline, friendship and chamber music reshape what it means to be a musician.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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100 Years of Kuhlo's Posaunenchor Book
A century-old brass choir book reveals how revivalist faith, Bach chorales, folk song, and practical notation reshaped church music.
Por Wilhelm Ehmann
Yes or no? Beware!
Do we or do we not play transcriptions?
“Transcriptions: yes or no? Beware.” Roger Bobo challenges tubists to rethink repertoire, taste, and tradition in a bold call for musical judgment and artistic freedom.
Por Roger Bobo
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Montreux 1976 - First international brass congress
Montreux 1976: beyond the spectacle. Between virtuosity, ego, and isolation, Alfred Willener questions the very meaning of the brass world.
Por Alfred Willener
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Serious Music this Side of the Ghetto
Between Darmstadt serialism and neo-tonality, the place of serious music in society is questioned through Berg, Schönberg and the post-war avant-garde.
Por Rolf Urs Ringger
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Individuality and Uniformity in Brass Players
As international standards reshape brass playing, musical individuality risks giving way to imitation, leaving tradition, ensemble work and personal conviction at stake.
Por Hans-Joachim Drechsler
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Editorial
Research shapes music. This editorial highlights key scholars, welcomes new contributors, and calls on readers to support Brass Bulletin’s growing international reach.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Some observation prompted by H. Baumann: Which Horn for which Music
Commentary responding to H. Baumann’s article (BB 3), offering critical observations and contributing to the ongoing debate on horn playing.
Por Harold Meek
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Special Hungary
The most beautiful instruments of the National and Military Museums
Special Hungary
Budapest’s museum collections bring together Roman and Baroque trumpets, ceremonial instruments and military imagery, preserving sounds and symbols across centuries.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia
From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.
Por Vaclav Hoza
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Editorial
One magazine disappeared as another opened its pages, turning economic necessity into a rare act of editorial solidarity that reshaped the brass press.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Between breath, reflex, and attention, Jeffrey Agrell links Zen practice with the physical and mental habits that shape brass playing.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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Tuba Editorial
Roger Bobo reflects on orchestral auditions, examining imbalance between candidates and positions and questioning training, selection criteria and prospects for aspiring tubists.
Por Roger Bobo
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Editorial
A warning from the machine: Jean-Pierre Mathez reflects on Kaufmann’s robot—questioning whether technology is shaping music… or slowly replacing the human artist.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez