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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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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
Parte 2
Classical music: Why bother?
Por Joshua Fineberg
Indeterminate instrumentation
A Way of Extending Instrumental Technic
Can technique go beyond notation? James Fulkerson explores new instrumental possibilities and argues that improvisation is key to expanding both technique and musical thinking.
Por James Fulkerson
Collective improvisation in instrumental classes with different instruments
What if learning an instrument meant more than playing pieces? Roland Böckle promotes collective improvisation to develop listening, taste, and creativity.
Por Roland Böckle
Reflections on the brass player
Why do brass players so often resist new music? Vinko Globokar dismantles schools, routines, and traditions—and calls for a freer musical mindset.
Por Vinko Globokar
Dreams and wishes
Things I would like to see happen concerning the horn and horn playing
A set of proposals for the future of the horn: Jeffrey Agrell addresses editions, pedagogy, instruments, and repertoire—from Mozart to contemporary practice.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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More than a magazine: a call to musicians. This editorial reveals Brass Bulletin’s mission—to inspire, connect, and survive through the support of its readers.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Mouthpiece, instrument, practice—what’s really holding you back? A reflection on doubt, competition, and finding the inner balance that shapes true musicianship.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Zen and the Art of Horn playing
From meditation to distance running, horn playing becomes a way of quieting mental noise, linking breath, concentration, and daily life.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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As music becomes increasingly industrialized, Jean-Pierre Mathez argues for restoring local musical communities where composers, performers and audiences shape a shared identity.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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10 Years of Brass Bulletin
Ten years after its launch, a small specialist publication reaches readers in more than sixty countries, reflecting how a shared artistic community took shape across borders.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Beyond technique and instruction, musical growth depends on trusted relationships, where friendship becomes both a measure of progress and a safeguard against isolation.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Parte 1
Sampling?
Por Thomas Stevens
Symposium 1978
Eyes toward the future
Beyond the instrument: Roger Bobo calls for open minds at Symposium ’78—urging tubists to seek inspiration, question identity, and look boldly toward the future.
Por Roger Bobo
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The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Haydn’s trumpet concerto becomes a study of manuscript detail, performance choices, and the fragile ways listeners receive a familiar work.
Por Alfred Willener
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Artistic progress is measured not only in technique but in doubt, self-awareness and hope, as Jean-Pierre Mathez looks beyond the instrument to the person playing it.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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A museum, a factory, a familiar instrument: Jean-Pierre Mathez turns ordinary encounters with brass into a reflection on the bond between player and voice.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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On record reviews
Is criticism constructive? Objective?
When taste and feeling dominate record reviews, criticism risks becoming arbitrary; Uwe Wolf argues instead for interpretations grounded enough to sustain debate.
Por Uwe Wolf
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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
The Minute counter!
Por Thomas Stevens
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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