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The French Hunting horn, its history, its technique and its music
Centuries-old hunting signals still shape performance today, where technique, ritual and oral tradition preserved a musical language unlike any other brass practice.
Por Daniel Bourgue
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Early Brass Instruments and Restoration
Restoring historic brass instruments means deciding what to preserve, what to undo and how modern methods can serve objects shaped by another musical age.
Por Ursula Menzel
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Anton Hansen (1877-1947)
Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia
From Sibelius to Paris, Anton Hansen’s later career links Scandinavian trombone playing with French repertoire, teaching, and orchestral reform.
Por Per Gade
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Bad Säckingen, Trumpet museum
A romantic legend, a remarkable private collection and Edward H. Tarr’s scholarship converged in Bad Säckingen to give the trumpet a museum of its own.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography
His First Twenty Years
First part of a detailed biography of Jean-Baptiste Arban, tracing his early years, studies at the Paris Conservatoire and the beginnings of his career.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography
The beginning of his career
Second part of Jean-Baptiste Arban’s biography, covering the early years of his career, his public performances, work with Adolphe Sax and the development of his famous method.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The modern concert hall
Por Sabina Pade
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Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)
Crucial Years
From illness and doubt to early triumph: Clarke’s “crucial years” reveal a fragile path—where talent, chance, and setbacks nearly drove a future legend away from music.
Por David Hickman
Staatskapelle of Dresden
Long Orchestral tradition
Por Peter Damm
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Jean-Baptiste Prin (1669-1742)
A tromba marine virtuoso
A forgotten string instrument leads to an unexpected treasury of Baroque trumpet music, challenging long-held assumptions about repertoire and performance.
Por Albert Hiller
19th Century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum
Vermillion (USA)
Por Margaret Downie Banks
Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna
Special Austria
Por Friedrich Anzenberger
History of brasses in Bulgaria
Por Vassil Todorov
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Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?
Deliberate divisions
Improvisation, articulation and ornament were once inseparable: Peter Damm recovers an 18th-century horn practice later narrowed by increasingly precise notation.
Por Peter Damm
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On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
Herbert Heyde traces early German valve instruments from Stoelzel’s horns to basses, makers, patents, and shifting brass-band sound.
Por Herbert Heyde
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Salvation Army in Japan
Western-style brass music entered a once-isolated Japan through unexpected channels, with Salvation Army bands becoming part of a remarkable cultural transformation.
Por Taku Satoh
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Mikhail Innokentiévitch Tabakov (1877-1958)
Founder of the Soviet trumpet school
A towering figure of trumpet history: Tabakov shaped generations—including the legendary Timofei Dokchitzer—and laid the foundations of the Soviet trumpet school.
Por G. Orvid, S. Riaouzov
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The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra
Por Daniel Scheidegger
Meeting Louie: Miami 1960
Por Irving Bush
Valentine Snow (1700-1770)
Por Brian Proksch
Classical, baroque horn or corno da tirarsi?
Por Javier Bonet Manrique
The Vienna horn and the Vienna sound
Special Austria
Por Armin Suppan
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The influence of Berlioz
on contemporary 19th Century use of brass instruments
Por Ernest H. Gross
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The C. G. Conn Company
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez