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Working with the Posaunenchor
From Württemberg youth groups to mass brass gatherings in Ulm, a community tradition links faith, education and amateur brass playing across generations.
Di Max Sommerhalder
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Singing lessons for brass players?
Explores how vocal training can benefit brass players, improving breathing, phrasing, tone production and musical expression.
Di Heinz Knodt
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On the sensitivity of brass instruments
Cold-hammered hunting horns retain a tactile memory of sound and playing, leading Jacques Poncet to question how brass instruments evolve in use.
Di Jacques Poncet
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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.
Di G. Orvid, S. Riaouzov
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A scientific study of pulmonary function
As applied to wind instrument playing, with emphasis on the study of lung function in trumpet playing
Do trumpet players breathe differently? William W. Bing shows not really—except for greater lung capacity tied to endurance, with no harmful effects.
Di William W. Bing
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Editorial
Beyond technique and instruction, musical growth depends on trusted relationships, where friendship becomes both a measure of progress and a safeguard against isolation.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching
What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?
Di Sergej Gorovoj
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Arnold Jacobs
Interview
From Curtis to Chicago, a tuba player's path crosses Reiner, Koussevitzky and Ormandy, while teaching evolves toward breathing, thought and musical function.
Di Roger Bobo
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Parte 1
Playing and singing simultaneously on brass instruments
From Weber and Vivier to contemporary solo works, singing into the brass instrument becomes a multiphonic technique shaped by notation, acoustics, and practice.
Di Benny Sluchin
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Editorial
Between disciplined practice and creative folly, musicianship emerges where scales and systems give way to imagination, instinct and the unsettling freedom to think.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Harmonics or partials?
Behind every brass note lies a compromise between acoustical theory and instrument design, as E. Ferron questions what players call a harmonic.
Di Emile Ferron
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300 Years of the Horn in Bohemia
An unsigned portrait from the Dresden court links the rise of Bohemian horn playing to the ceremonial world of Baroque hunting culture.
Di Kurt Janetzky
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Impossible?
Kurt Janetzky challenges the notion of the “impossible” in brass playing, arguing that technical limits evolve and that demanding repertoire—past or present—should never be dismissed as unplayable.
Di Kurt Janetzky
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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.
Di Rolf Quinque
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Progress by Stages
Between technical routine and lived experience, musical growth emerges through setbacks, observation and the gradual shaping of an individual voice.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
The pluralism of the so-called “modern” forms (1945 to the present)
Bebop, Miles Davis and the rise of the flugelhorn mark a postwar jazz landscape in which trumpet playing splintered into competing sounds and ideals.
Di Michel Laplace
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Blowing as a body function
Breathing habits, posture and body mechanics converge in a practical view of tone production, where William F. Cramer questions prevailing assumptions.
Di William F. Cramer
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Jabbo Smith
The Unrecognised Jazz Trumpeter
Overshadowed by Armstrong and later by Eldridge, Jabbo Smith emerges as a crucial trumpet innovator whose speed, range and phrasing anticipated modern jazz.
Di Michel Laplace
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The trombone in Maurice Ravel's Boléro
Boléro as ordeal: Jean Douay reveals stage fright, pressure, and the weight of the final solo—where one moment can elevate or undermine the entire orchestra.
Di Jean Douay
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Editorial
From cultural codes to personal sincerity, Jean-Pierre Mathez questions how musicians recognise truth across styles, traditions and musical languages.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Reflections on the horn
Francis Orval reflects on horn playing, discussing tone production, breathing and the influence of French and German traditions on sound and style.
Di Francis Orval
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The hunting horn
Long-held beliefs about the French hunting horn are challenged as forgotten playing practices and Baroque traditions reshape its early history and repertoire.
Di Jacques Poncet
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On the question of articulation in the horn concertos by W. A. Mozart
How should Mozart really sound? Peter Damm questions traditional editions and reveals how articulation—often missing—must be rebuilt through style, listening, and musical judgment.
Di Peter Damm