Brass Bulletin N. 46
II / 1984
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Brass Bulletin N. 46
II / 1984
Sommario
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
An international brass congress exposes a deeper tension between global exchange, American influence and the need for musical cultures to preserve their identity.
On the Cornett and Serpent
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
Pierre Trichet
Written around 1640, Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique preserves a firsthand account of the cornett and serpent in musical life and construction.
Melvyn Poore
Tuba britannica
Thomas Aitken
A tuba becomes a laboratory for circular breathing, reeds, strange mutes and music theatre as Melvyn Poore pushes beyond the orchestral role assigned to it.
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and in Popular Music
Parte 5Breathing
Michel Laplace
Breathing, Valsalva, mouthpiece position and daily practice collide with received wisdom as trumpet technique is reconsidered from the body outward.
The Trombone in the Sacred Works of W. A. Mozart
Benny Sluchin
In Mozart’s sacred music, the trombone moved beyond choral reinforcement to striking solo roles that preserve the sound and practice of eighteenth-century Salzburg.
Meir Rimon
Portrait and conversation
Jeffrey Agrell
Orchestral discipline, solo freedom and an endless appetite for learning shaped Meir Rimon’s horn playing across Israeli, European and American traditions.
A modern corno da caccia
Werner Wolf
Bach’s highest horn parts expose a divide between historical sound and modern technique, prompting Friedbert Syhre and Ludwig Güttler to rethink the instrument itself.
Clément Perrin (1876-1970)
He lived at the turn of the 20th century...
Jean-Pierre Mathez
An extraordinary brass life links Belle Époque Algiers, two world wars and Saint-Saëns, with Clément Perrin still performing as solo trumpet at 81.
The Pitch Finder
Jack Holland
A 1980 attempt to make trumpet intonation mechanical shifts familiar pitch corrections from the embouchure to the fingers, with striking consequences for playing.
Johann Ernst Altenburg (1736-1801)
The last representative of the heroic art of the trumpeter and drummer
Arno Werner
A trumpeter caught between a fading guild tradition and a changing musical world left a 1795 treatise that became an essential witness to a disappearing art.
Mantzaros Philharmonic Society
Corfou, Greece
Gerassimos Ioannides
A Corfu musical society founded in 1890 connects European influence, amateur tradition and a trumpet school that trained some 1,200 players.