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The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions
From Virgiliano to Praetorius and Eisel, early sources reshape long-held assumptions about trombone tuning, slide positions and historical playing practice.
Di Howard Weiner
Gratuito
Parte 1
The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet
Edward H. Tarr examines the Baroque trumpet and clarifies the origins and meaning of the so-called “Bach trumpet.”
Di Edward H. Tarr
Gratuito
Parte 1
On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
At the origin of modern brass: Herbert Heyde uncovers the true story of valve invention—revealing rivalries, experiments, and the breakthrough that transformed musical history.
Di Herbert Heyde
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Parte 1
From musical wallpaper to the twelve-note row
The trombone in the chamber ensemble at the beginning of modern music (1913-1934)
Between 1913 and 1934, the trombone gained an unexpected place in chamber music as Satie, Milhaud and Stravinsky challenged orchestral traditions with jazz and new sounds.
Di Michael Struck-Schloen
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Parte 1
Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?
Performance once depended as much on informed invention as on written notes, and early horn concertos still carry that forgotten freedom in plain sight.
Di Peter Damm
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Parte 1
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
A 1795 encyclopedia captures brass and wind instruments at a moment when their language, character and expressive roles were understood rather differently.
Di Anonyme
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Parte 6
How and why I became a musician
In wartime Switzerland, an unexpected encounter in Basel gives Edouard Gros his first F tuba, opening a new musical path amid military service and orchestral rivalries.
Di Edouard Gros
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Georgiy Antonovich Orvid
Portrait of a distinguished Soviet trumpeter
A Soviet trumpet virtuoso who shaped generations of musicians, Georgiy Orvid combined an international concert career with teaching, research and cultural leadership.
Di Yuri Usov
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George Swift, You see who I mean?
In the 1930s, George Swift brought cornet virtuosity and jazz influences to the concert trumpet, building a remarkable reputation through just a handful of recordings.
Di Michel Laplace
Gratuito
Parte 2
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
In 1795, musical instruments were thought to need no further invention, yet their materials, construction and acoustic possibilities remained open to experimentation.
Di Anonyme
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Brass in the Operas of Berlioz
Berlioz turned a changing brass section into a dramatic force, using horns, trombones, cornets and saxhorns to shape colour, distance, ceremony and fear.
Di Benjamin Perl
Parte 3
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
Di Anonyme
The Alto Trombone in the 20th Century Orchestra
Di Benny Sluchin
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Contract of apprenticeship as Field-trumpeter 1703
Publication of a 1703 apprenticeship contract for a field trumpeter, offering insight into training, discipline and professional life.
Di Ernst W. Buser
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Brass music in Slovenia
Di Igor Krivokapic
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On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet
A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.
Di Pierre Trichet
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Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
Music shaped daily life in Aurora’s communal colony, from civic ceremonies and political events to touring brass bands that carried its identity across the American West.
Di Deborah M. Olsen
Parte 1
The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra
Di Daniel Scheidegger
Gratuito
The Oldest Concert Band in Japan
Founded in 1895 by a local banker, Ichinomiya’s municipal band survived war and changing musical traditions, preserving a remarkable chapter of Japan’s musical history.
Di Michio Sugihara
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Parte 4
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
The instrument for jazz
Jazz trumpet playing balances equipment, embouchure and articulation, as changing sound ideals reshape mouthpieces, technique and the physical approach to playing.
Di Michel Laplace
Parte 2
School of trumpet in Liège
Di Rosario Macaluso
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The classical solo concerto for trombone and its interpreters in the 19th century
From Queisser to Ferdinand David: the rise—and disappearance—of the classical trombone concerto in the 19th century reveals a forgotten golden age of virtuosity.
Di Werner Beyer
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Aimé Barelli
Trumpet crooner
French jazz, wartime Paris and changing styles shaped a trumpeter whose playing balanced virtuosity, melody and expression across several musical worlds.
Di Michel Laplace
Military Bands in Europe: Exhibition
Di Heinz Preiss