Tecnica
115 articoli
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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
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Parte 1
Articulation or bowing on the trumpet
Trumpet articulation becomes a precise study of attack, sustain, release and legato, linking tongue, breath, lips and sound in Dokshitser’s method.
Di Timofey Dokschidser
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Serie Tecnica degli ottoni • Parte 1
The Brain
Instrumental mastery begins beyond the instrument itself, where motivation, concentration and self-awareness shape the musician’s progress and artistic development.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Breathing and the physiological mask
Air is not everything: Michel Ricquier challenges the “air column” myth, revealing how breathing and the “physiological mask” together unlock control, power, and ease.
Di Michel Ricquier
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Editorial
So your trumpet plays in tune
Keyboard tuning, just intonation and string phrasing place brass players between conflicting pitch systems, as Thomas Stevens outlines practical compromises.
Di Thomas Stevens
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Good intonation on the trombone
The trombone’s fixed positions meet the compromises of natural harmonics, as Raymond Fonsèque proposes a different logic for pitch across major and minor keys.
Di Raymond Fonseque
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Parte 2
Articulation or bowing on the trumpet
Trumpet articulation becomes a full performing language, from détaché and staccato to legato, glissando, dynamics and score interpretation.
Di Timofey Dokschidser
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Serie Il jazz e il corno • Parte 7
Jazz and the Horn
John Clark
John Clark made the horn a jazz voice on its own terms, balancing improvisation, studio realities and an instrument still fighting to escape classical expectations.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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Low register development for the trombone
Should you really drop the jaw for low notes? James Fulkerson challenges this idea and proposes a more stable approach to extend the low register.
Di James Fulkerson
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Contemporary systems and trends for the tuba
New music, new rules: Daniel Perantoni explores extended techniques, graphic notation and the evolving language of the tuba.
Di Daniel Perantoni
A more natural intonation
Di Rex Martin
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Parte 5
Practical Hints
Working from a Clarke study, a modified routine links tone stability to velocity, showing how secure sound supports precision as tempo increases.
Di James Stamp
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Parte 5
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and in Popular Music
Breathing
Breathing, Valsalva, mouthpiece position and daily practice collide with received wisdom as trumpet technique is reconsidered from the body outward.
Di Michel Laplace
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Fundamental trombone performance technique
Teaching and application
Technique becomes musicianship when breathing, vibration, resonance, articulation and slide movement cease to be separate skills and begin working as one.
Di William F. Cramer
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My Experiences with Colleagues and Pupils
in 50 Years as trumpet player and trumpet teacher
Across five decades, Heinz Burum links trumpet embouchure, mouthpiece design and teaching practice to concrete cases from orchestras, pupils and colleagues.
Di Heinz Burum
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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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Overlays and bonding
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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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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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
Parte 8
DSA - Digital analysis of intonation and sound
Di Robert Meissner
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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Interview with Thomas Müller
The natural horn is not a retreat into the past: Thomas Müller argues that its demands on sound, technique and awareness can broaden a modern player’s craft.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
One step for intonation: one giant step for the serpent
Di Craig Kridel
Parte 1
The art of chamber music
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez