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No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Stanko Arnold

Yugoslavia's Trumpet Virtuoso

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Valaida Snow

Queen of the trumpet

By Michel Laplace

Encounters
The Trumpet in the USA
No. 33 • 1981 Digitized

Part 4

The Trumpet in the USA

Gadgets II

Mouthpiece backbores for piccolo and C trumpet are compared through practical performer testing, linking equipment choices to sound, volume and intonation.

By Thomas Stevens

Equipment Mouthpiece Sound Intonation
No. 83 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Yes! We have no repertoire!

By Thomas Stevens

Repertoire
Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)
No. 19 • 1977 Digitized

Part 2

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.

By David Hickman

History
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Timofey Dokschidzer

A story of the heart...

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report
The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
No. 37 • 1982 Digitized

Part 3

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.

By Alfred Willener

History Repertoire Society Interpretation Sociology Ideas Keyed trumpet
Bach and the Others
No. 119 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

Bach and the Others

Eighteenth-Century Trumpeter-Hornists

From Bach’s Leipzig cantatas to the Stadtpfeifer tradition, trumpet and horn emerge as interchangeable tools within a remarkably versatile musical profession.

By Edward H. Tarr

History
No. 69 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Wolfgang Basch

The German Heritage

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Encounters
No. 76 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Bremen 1991

Trumpet forum

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Event
No. 69 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Charles Schlueter

Principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Contract of apprenticeship as Field-trumpeter 1703 Free
No. 3 • 1972 Digitized

Contract of apprenticeship as Field-trumpeter 1703

Publication of a 1703 apprenticeship contract for a field trumpeter, offering insight into training, discipline and professional life.

By Ernst W. Buser

History
Albert Calvayrac Free
No. 45 • 1984 Digitized

Albert Calvayrac

Portrait

A career nearly abandoned after a disastrous switch from cornet to trumpet became a lesson in self-knowledge, persistence and an unexpected return to music.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The mute belt Free
No. 54 • 1986 Digitized

The mute belt

In Stockhausen's demanding trumpet works, six different mutes had to be changed while performing from memory, turning a practical problem into a new stage technique.

By Markus Stockhausen

Equipment Technique Contemporary Music Sound
No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Neruda's Concerto for Horn (or trumpet)

By Edward H. Tarr

Repertoire
The Trumpet in the USA Free
No. 27 • 1979 Digitized

Part 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

By Thomas Stevens

Society American school Interpretation Ideas
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

The town trumpeters of Delft

Special Holland

By Willem Ouwerkerk

History
Gravestone of the field trumpeter Johann Kauffmann (1585-1634?) Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Gravestone of the field trumpeter Johann Kauffmann (1585-1634?)

A chance visit near Giebelstadt brings a seventeenth-century field trumpeter back into view, leaving a gravestone—and a musical life still largely unknown.

By Wolfgang G. Haas

History
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and in Popular Music
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

Part 5

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and in Popular Music

Breathing

Breathing, Valsalva, mouthpiece position and daily practice collide with received wisdom as trumpet technique is reconsidered from the body outward.

By Michel Laplace

Technique Jazz Breathing
No. 80 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Trumpet methods of the 19th century

By Friedrich Anzenberger

History Repertoire
Conversation with Ludwig Güttler
No. 44 • 1983 Digitized

Conversation with Ludwig Güttler

Between Bach, historical instruments and modern virtuosity, Ludwig Güttler argues for a trumpet tradition shaped by declamation, research and a refusal of musical purism.

By Christian Blümel, Gerd Radeke

Encounters Interpretation
ASA-Method Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

ASA-Method

From Bach’s clarino tradition to modern piccolo trumpet playing, extreme high-register technique is tied here to breath support, pressure control and disciplined endurance.

By Rolf Quinque

Technique Teaching Breathing Range Endurance
No. 73 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Trumpet and percussion, a dynamic combination

+ Music and Zen, interview with Patrick Lehmann and Simone Wolf-Lehmann

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Repertoire
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Interview with Paul Spörri

Principal trumoet of the Berlin Philharmonie

By Heinz Klose

Encounters
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