Brass Bulletin N. 48
IV / 1984
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14 articoli
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Brass Bulletin N. 48
IV / 1984
Sommario
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Colour enters Brass Bulletin as its fiftieth issue approaches, while Jean-Pierre Mathez reflects on continuity, readers and a magazine still evolving.
Edna White
A Woman and a Life in the Service of the Trumpet
Michel Laplace
At a time when the cornet still ruled, Edna White made the trumpet a solo voice, building a career across concert halls, radio, recordings and new repertoire.
Some ways of improving the development of the lips in brass players
Sergej Gorovoj
Brass players borrow from sports medicine as Soviet electrical stimulation, acupuncture and massage test new ways to build endurance and restore overworked lips.
Special Hungary
Editorial
Special Hungary
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Hungary’s brass world emerges as a cultural force, where organisation, international exchange and musical ambition turn national vitality into lasting connections.
Special Hungary
Barcs 1984
First International Brass Ensemble Competition
Jean-Pierre Mathez
A small Hungarian town became a testing ground for brass chamber music, where young ensembles showed how quickly the discipline was coming of age.
Special Hungary
International Trumpet Competition, Budapest 1984
Special Hungary
Timofey Dokschidser, Philip Jones, Théo Mertens
Budapest 1984 exposed a striking gap between technical brilliance and musical maturity, while three leading trumpeters challenged what competitions truly reward.
Special Hungary
Studying music in Hungary
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Music education, secure jobs and modest salaries shaped a Hungarian brass culture where exceptional training coexisted with striking economic realities.
Special Hungary
National Hungarian Music Center
Special Hungary
Jean-Pierre Mathez
In 1980s Budapest, one building brought rehearsal rooms, publishers, record labels, concert organisers and musicians together at the heart of Hungarian musical life.
Special Hungary
Brass Chamber Music in Hungary
Frigyes Varasdy
Ancient horns, military signals and postwar ensembles meet in a Hungarian brass tradition shaped as much by education and composers as by performers.
Special Hungary
The most beautiful instruments of the National and Military Museums
Special Hungary
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Budapest’s museum collections bring together Roman and Baroque trumpets, ceremonial instruments and military imagery, preserving sounds and symbols across centuries.
Special Hungary
The Trumpets in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest
Leo Kappel
Four little-known trumpets in Budapest open a window onto Viennese makers, historical construction, pitch and the fragile survival of museum instruments.
On the Crumhorn
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
Pierre Trichet
A seventeenth-century crumhorn leads from Roman lituus and alpine horns to reeds, finger holes and keys, exposing an unexpected family of curved instruments.
On record reviews
Is criticism constructive? Objective?
Uwe Wolf
When taste and feeling dominate record reviews, criticism risks becoming arbitrary; Uwe Wolf argues instead for interpretations grounded enough to sustain debate.
Inventor's corner
Shaping Your Own Mouthpiece
Ninck Blok
A tiny alteration to the mouthpiece rim challenges conventional design, seeking greater upper-lip endurance without sacrificing flexibility, attack or control.