Instrumentos históricos
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Hermann Baumann
A virtuoso's career
A career built on sound, memory and the natural horn shows how Hermann Baumann helped redefine what a horn soloist could be on the international stage.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions
From Virgiliano to Praetorius and Eisel, early sources reshape long-held assumptions about trombone tuning, slide positions and historical playing practice.
Por Howard Weiner
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The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet
Edward H. Tarr examines the Baroque trumpet and clarifies the origins and meaning of the so-called “Bach trumpet.”
Por Edward H. Tarr
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On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
At the origin of modern brass: Herbert Heyde uncovers the true story of valve invention—revealing rivalries, experiments, and the breakthrough that transformed musical history.
Por Herbert Heyde
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The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
A 1795 encyclopedia captures brass and wind instruments at a moment when their language, character and expressive roles were understood rather differently.
Por Anonyme
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The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
In 1795, musical instruments were thought to need no further invention, yet their materials, construction and acoustic possibilities remained open to experimentation.
Por Anonyme
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Brass in the Operas of Berlioz
Berlioz turned a changing brass section into a dramatic force, using horns, trombones, cornets and saxhorns to shape colour, distance, ceremony and fear.
Por Benjamin Perl
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The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
Por Anonyme
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On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet
A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.
Por Pierre Trichet
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The Remarkable Story Behind the Cover
A war, a theft, and an unexpected recovery turned one nineteenth-century cornet into a witness to musical memory beyond its craftsmanship and sound.
Por Jean-Michel Gauffriau
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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
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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.
Por Edward H. Tarr
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Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)
The Trumpet Method
The first trumpet method rediscovered: Edward H. Tarr reveals how Bendinelli’s 1614 treatise reshapes our understanding of trumpet technique, signals, and ensemble art.
Por Edward H. Tarr
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J. G. Albrechtsberger (1736-1809)
Concertino for chromatic trumpet
Study by Reine Dahlqvist arguing that Albrechtsberger’s 1771 Eb concertino was intended for Jew’s harp rather than keyed or slide trumpet.
Por Reine Dahlqvist
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The Wrong Brass?
Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.
Por Rudolf Lewy
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On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
From invention to rivalry: the early history of rotary and piston valves reveals a battle of ideas, patents, and craftsmanship that transformed brass instruments forever.
Por Herbert Heyde
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Interview with Thomas Müller
The natural horn is not a retreat into the past: Thomas Müller argues that its demands on sound, technique and awareness can broaden a modern player’s craft.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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The contrabass trombone
Picture and sketches, taking particularly into account the construction principles (1973)
From Praetorius to Wagner: Heinrich Thein traces the evolution of the contrabass trombone—revealing how history, acoustics, and design shaped this powerful orchestral voice.
Por Heinrich Thein
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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.
Por Stephen J. Weston
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Early trumpet music in Schwerin
Hidden sources revealed: Stephen Glover uncovers early trumpet music in Schwerin—offering new insights into wind bands, performance practice, and the evolution of brass.
Por Stephen L. Glover
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Natural trumpets, basic techniques
Natural trumpet playing demands more than historical equipment: Friedemann Immer sets modern technique against Baroque sound, articulation, style and authenticity.
Por Friedemann Immer
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At the Sign of the Serpent
All sorts of old, rare and unusual musical instruments bought and sold by Tony Bingham
Behind a Hampstead shopfront, Tony Bingham’s trade in ophicleides, natural horns and cornets kept rare instruments circulating between collectors and players.
Por Thomas Aitken
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Dr. h.c. Bernoulli (1904-1980)
Necrology of a great collector
From a Swiss castle filled with 700 brass instruments to the Historical Museum Basel, a collector’s life reflects decades of dedication, scholarship and hospitality.
Por Emilie Mende
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Friedemann Immer
A new Trumpet
Baroque tradition and modern trumpet playing converge in Friedemann Immer’s unusual double career, shaped by Bach, natural trumpet and early music.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez