Sociologia
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Editorial
One magazine disappeared as another opened its pages, turning economic necessity into a rare act of editorial solidarity that reshaped the brass press.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
Mouthpiece, instrument, practice—what’s really holding you back? A reflection on doubt, competition, and finding the inner balance that shapes true musicianship.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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A woman trombonist, Yvelise Girard
Women and Brass
From Paris conservatories to police bands, a young trombonist confronts isolation, scrutiny and ambition as women slowly enter the brass world.
Di Jean Douay
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Editorial
More than a magazine: a call to musicians. This editorial reveals Brass Bulletin’s mission—to inspire, connect, and survive through the support of its readers.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Brass and Strings
A note on personality types among musicians
Behind the formal discipline of the symphony orchestra, contrasting views of brass and string players reveal enduring questions about personality, class and musical culture.
Di John Davies
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The Midwinter Horn
De Midwinterhoorn
A Christmas horn tradition from eastern Netherlands preserves ancient construction, ritual and performance, linking rural practice with Leopold Mozart's Sinfonia pastorella.
Di Herman Jeurissen
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Women and Brass
Statements
Female brass players in British orchestras describe auditions, section dynamics and the pressure of proving themselves beyond musical ability.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Musical Piracy
Plagiarism, Photocopying
Long before digital piracy, publishers and performers were already confronting plagiarism, photocopying and blurred artistic ownership across the brass world.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
Mass media, record-industry economics and the return of cornet virtuosity collide in a sharp warning about fashion, manipulation and musical independence.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Being a woman brass player... So what?
Frøydis Ree Wekre reflects on women in brass playing, examining physical assumptions, psychological factors, and practical realities across performance and professional life.
Di Frøydis Ree Wekre
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Serious Music this Side of the Ghetto
Between Darmstadt serialism and neo-tonality, the place of serious music in society is questioned through Berg, Schönberg and the post-war avant-garde.
Di Rolf Urs Ringger
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The development of the amateur wind-band repertoire in Central Europe since 1950
After 1950, Central Europe’s amateur wind bands became a testing ground where inherited traditions, modern composition, popular music and education collided.
Di Wolfgang Suppan
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Editorial
A life that shaped a century: Jean-Pierre Mathez introduces the extraordinary rise of Maurice André—an artist whose brilliance transformed the modern trumpet.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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John Fletcher
Interview
From brass bands to chamber ensembles, John Fletcher reflects on the rapid rise of young British tubists and the changing role of the instrument.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Parte 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.
Di Alfred Willener
Composer Interpreter Teacher Student
Clains and demands in musical life today
What is the musician’s role today? Willi Gohl questions creation, teaching, and society—and argues for a more human, free, and living music.
Di Willi Gohl
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Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia
From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.
Di Vaclav Hoza
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Parte 3
Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
Aurora’s bands, chamber groups and restored instruments show how communal faith, German heritage and American public life met in sound, from parlors to parades.
Di Deborah M. Olsen
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Editorial
Virtuosity is framed less as method than perception, opposing formula-driven teaching and pointing to attentive listening as the ground for technical clarity and artistic control
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The Audition System
Why American Musicians Emigrate?
Behind orchestral vacancies in North America, travel costs, subjective selection and hidden hiring practices help explain a growing flow of musicians abroad.
Di David P. Searfoss
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Listening
Musical listening begins where judgment ends, as Jeffrey Agrell questions habits of criticism, recordings and expectation that shape every performance.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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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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Salvation Army in Japan
Western-style brass music entered a once-isolated Japan through unexpected channels, with Salvation Army bands becoming part of a remarkable cultural transformation.
Di Taku Satoh
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Tuba Editorial
Roger Bobo reflects on orchestral auditions, examining imbalance between candidates and positions and questioning training, selection criteria and prospects for aspiring tubists.
Di Roger Bobo