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Paolo Longinotti (1913-1963)
His career
A virtuoso of Ansermet’s orchestra, piccolo-trumpet pioneer and mentor to Maurice André, Longinotti’s brilliance was matched by a devastating final chapter.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Schloss Kremsegg: Ophicleïde in C
Di Heinz Preiss
Gratuito
The Remarkable Story Behind the Cover
A war, a theft, and an unexpected recovery turned one nineteenth-century cornet into a witness to musical memory beyond its craftsmanship and sound.
Di Jean-Michel Gauffriau
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Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
In a German communal settlement on the Oregon frontier, bands, choirs and original compositions shaped daily life as strongly as faith, work and education.
Di Deborah M. Olsen
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A Trombone Martyr
Auguste Léonard de la Tuilerie
A Paris apothecary turned trombone evangelist challenges 19th-century musical habits, imagining the slide trombone as the future voice of harmony.
Di Benny Sluchin
Parte 1
The influence of Berlioz
on contemporary 19th Century use of brass instruments
Di Ernest H. Gross
Parte 2
On the trail of the medieval slide trumpet
Di David M. Guion
Parte 1
Mozart and brass musicians
Di Eugen Brixel
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Parte 1
Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)
Biography
Cesare Bendinelli (1542–1617), imperial trumpeter and teacher, shaped a tradition and wrote the first trumpet method — a key document of Renaissance brass playing.
Di Edward H. Tarr
Gratuito
Parte 4
Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?
Changes and modifications of tempo
Tempo, dynamics and cadenzas expose how much an 18th-century horn concerto once depended on choices that modern notation and instruments can easily obscure.
Di Peter Damm
Parte 2
The Alto Trombone
Di Benny Sluchin
Parte 2
The Alto Trombone
In the 18th Century Sacred Chamber Music from the Abbeys of Göttweig and Melk, Austria
Di J. Richard Raum
Gratuito
Parte 1
The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music
Jazz did not invent the modern trombone: early virtuosos, New Orleans players and changing techniques reveal a more complex path toward flexibility and legato.
Di Michel Laplace
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Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942)
Discovery of unpublished trumpet studies
Forgotten in Leningrad for decades, Trognée’s unpublished trumpet studies reconnect the Belgian virtuoso with a European tradition his Russian career had obscured.
Di Anatoly Selianin
Brass Bulletin 1971 - 2003 - Complete list of articles
Di Brass Bulletin
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The Alto Trombone
Di Benny Sluchin
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Parte 2
Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)
The Trumpet Method
The first trumpet method rediscovered: Edward H. Tarr reveals how Bendinelli’s 1614 treatise reshapes our understanding of trumpet technique, signals, and ensemble art.
Di Edward H. Tarr
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Clément Perrin (1876-1970)
He lived at the turn of the 20th century...
An extraordinary brass life links Belle Époque Algiers, two world wars and Saint-Saëns, with Clément Perrin still performing as solo trumpet at 81.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
Special jazz techniques
Vibrato, half-valves, growls and shakes lead to a larger argument: jazz transformed trumpet technique, yet its contribution remained strikingly undervalued.
Di Michel Laplace
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), Erotico-satirical drawings
Di John Wallace
Trumpet methods of the 19th century
Di Friedrich Anzenberger
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The Fellowship of the Minstrels
Exploration of the medieval minstrel’s world, from marginalization and suspicion to the creation of fellowships that offered protection and structure.
Di J. E. Spruit
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Parte 3
The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music
Pluralism of expression since 1945
Bebop, cool jazz, free jazz and neo-classicism transformed the trombone after 1945, as new players, techniques and instruments pushed its boundaries.
Di Michel Laplace
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J. G. Albrechtsberger (1736-1809)
Concertino for chromatic trumpet
Study by Reine Dahlqvist arguing that Albrechtsberger’s 1771 Eb concertino was intended for Jew’s harp rather than keyed or slide trumpet.
Di Reine Dahlqvist