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New dental aids for brass players
A trumpeter’s dental experiments in the 1980s turned teeth, mouthpiece pressure and embouchure into an unexpected field of collaboration with dentistry.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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The F/Bb horn with whole-tone ascending 3rd valve
A different horn, a different approach: Francis Orval explores how an ascending 3rd valve reshapes technique, intonation and response.
Di Francis Orval
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The Wrong Brass?
Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.
Di Rudolf Lewy
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An American trumpet player's impressions of european brass performances
An American trumpet player reflects on European brass traditions, comparing education, amateur practice and professional performance across both continents.
Di Harold E. Krueger
Brass players athletes
Brass players are athletes. Bengt Belfrage reveals how training, recovery, breathing, and mental focus—borrowed from sport—can transform performance and endurance.
Di Bengt Belfrage
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Vassily Gueorguievitch Brandt (1869–1923)
Biography
Sélianine traces Brandt’s life and artistry, from Bolshoi virtuoso to influential pedagogue, revealing the foundations of a distinctly Russian trumpet tradition.
Di Anatoly Selianin
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The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
As editions, instruments and traditions diverge, Haydn’s trumpet concerto becomes a lens on notation, style and the shifting meaning of performance.
Di Alfred Willener
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.
Di Roland Böckle
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Serie Il jazz e il corno • Parte 1
Jazz and the Horn
The horn was once considered incompatible with jazz until changing ideas of sound and musicians like John Graas quietly overturned that certainty.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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Serie Il jazz e il corno • Parte 3
Jazz and the Horn
Getting started
For the classically trained horn player, jazz replaces the security of the printed page with listening, swing and improvisation—and a different kind of discipline.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Ornamentation of baroque music for brass
Baroque ornamentation forgotten? Without it, performances become dull and repetitive. This article argues for a return to style, freedom, and creative interpretation.
Di Marc Meissner
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Editorial
Is sound something you control—or something you become? Jean-Pierre Mathez challenges technique, fashion, and pedagogy: sonority is a lifelong conquest of freedom.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The Trumpet in the USA
Diverse makers
As trumpet makers rethink their standard instruments, Monette, Malone and Blackburn bring leadpipe design into a new dialogue between players and workshops.
Di Thomas Stevens
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The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
André, Wobisch, Dokshitzer, Stringer and others reveal how tempo, phrasing, ornamentation and cadenzas reshape Haydn's trumpet concerto.
Di Alfred Willener
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Tonguing
A tiny shift in tongue movement changes speed, endurance and clarity, turning articulation from a mechanical attack into one of the trumpet player’s subtlest tools.
Di Louis Davidson
Yes or no? Beware!
Do we or do we not play transcriptions?
“Transcriptions: yes or no? Beware.” Roger Bobo challenges tubists to rethink repertoire, taste, and tradition in a bold call for musical judgment and artistic freedom.
Di Roger Bobo
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James Stamp, subtle teaching
Intonation, held notes and mouthpiece work shape James Stamp's subtle approach to trumpet playing, where listening and physical economy guide technique.
Di Alfred Willener
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The use of the mind in instrumental performance
Relaxation, concentration and mental imagery reshape technical practice, linking self-confidence and instrumental control beyond physical training alone.
Di Michel Ricquier
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Basics in breathing
An Outline to a Better Sound
From breathing awareness to sound production, practical exercises link physical relaxation, air control and rhythmic precision in everyday brass playing.
Di Joel Elias
Phonetics in the articulation and expression of the language of music
Rethinking articulation: Francis Orval challenges traditional teaching—revealing how phonetics, language, and psychology shape sound, phrasing, and musical expression.
Di Francis Orval
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Natural trumpets, basic techniques
Natural trumpet playing demands more than historical equipment: Friedemann Immer sets modern technique against Baroque sound, articulation, style and authenticity.
Di Friedemann Immer
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ASA-Method, ASA-Technic
Virtuosity grows from disciplined work on scales, articulation and reading, arguing that consistent fundamentals matter more than chasing the upper register.
Di Rolf Quinque
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.
Di James Fulkerson
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Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris
What if everything you control is wrong? This radical approach to brass playing shifts focus away from the embouchure — back to the true origin of breath and sound.
Di Alfred Willener