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Editorial
At the dawn of the 1980s, Brass Bulletin challenges institutional habits, avant-garde rigidity and brass pedagies through a direct appeal to younger musicians.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Amateur wind-band repertoire in Central Europa since 1950
After 1950, Central Europe’s amateur wind bands became a testing ground where inherited traditions, modern composition, popular music and education collided.
Por Wolfgang Suppan
Brass studies in Australia
As international performers, seminars and teachers reached Australia in the late 1970s, a geographically isolated brass scene began finding its own direction.
Por David O'Meara
The Minute counter!
Por Thomas Stevens
Gratuito
Editorial
Is sound something you control—or something you become? Jean-Pierre Mathez challenges technique, fashion, and pedagogy: sonority is a lifelong conquest of freedom.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Miembro
Listening
Musical listening begins where judgment ends, as Jeffrey Agrell questions habits of criticism, recordings and expectation that shape every performance.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
The Art of the Third Horn Player
The unsung hero
Por Kerry Turner
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Gabinetto Armonico by Filippo Bonanni, Rome 1723
22 Illustrations
Selection of illustrations and excerpts from Gabinetto Armonico (1723), offering a visual insight into early instruments and musical practice.
Por Filippo Bonanni
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Dynamics in the 80's
From Reykjavik to the Hollywood Bowl, rising concert hall scale and amplified culture reshape orchestral sound, leaving acoustic limits exposed.
Por Roger Bobo
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Being a woman brass player... So what?
Frøydis Ree Wekre reflects on women in brass playing, examining physical assumptions, psychological factors, and practical realities across performance and professional life.
Por Frøydis Ree Wekre
Ornamentation of baroque music for brass
Baroque ornamentation forgotten? Without it, performances become dull and repetitive. This article argues for a return to style, freedom, and creative interpretation.
Por Marc Meissner
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The Audition System
Why American Musicians Emigrate?
Behind orchestral vacancies in North America, travel costs, subjective selection and hidden hiring practices help explain a growing flow of musicians abroad.
Por David P. Searfoss
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Women and Brass
Statements
Female brass players in British orchestras describe auditions, section dynamics and the pressure of proving themselves beyond musical ability.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Gratuito
From the pen of Roger Bobo
A bold statement from Roger Bobo: limiting yourself to your instrument’s repertoire is musical imprisonment — true musicianship begins beyond boundaries.
Por Roger Bobo
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The subconscious, a useful friend
From yogic practices to auto-hypnosis, mental conditioning and visualisation are linked to performance, self-control, and the body's hidden responses.
Por Michel Ricquier
Gratuito
Editorial
Virtuosity is framed less as method than perception, opposing formula-driven teaching and pointing to attentive listening as the ground for technical clarity and artistic control
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Miembro
Parte 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.
Por Deborah M. Olsen
Gratuito
Editorial
International Competitions - Time, a perishable commodity...
From competition juries to the accelerating pace of modern life, Jean-Pierre Mathez questions the judgments and pressures shaping musicians and their careers
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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What's your proper job?
A social portrait of the British brass player
Four British brass players confront a profession transformed by orchestras, freelance work, social prejudice and the shrinking certainties of musical life.
Por Thomas Aitken
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The use of the mind in instrumental performance
Relaxation, concentration and mental imagery reshape technical practice, linking self-confidence and instrumental control beyond physical training alone.
Por Michel Ricquier
Parte 1
Classical music: Why bother?
Por Joshua Fineberg
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Parte 1
The Trumpet in the USA
Across competitions, teaching and equipment in the U.S., trumpet practice exposes clashing ideas of musicality, raising the question of shared standards beyond national styles
Por Thomas Stevens
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Parte 2
Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Beyond technique: Jeffrey Agrell explores the clash between intellect and intuition—arguing that true musical expression begins where analysis ends.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
Thoughts on Competitions in Music
Por Frøydis Ree Wekre