Brass Bulletin No. 41
I / 1983
80
8 articles
Out of print
Brass Bulletin No. 41
I / 1983
Contents
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
When careers pause and certainty fades, real progress begins in private, where discipline, friendship and chamber music reshape what it means to be a musician.
The Wrong Brass?
Rudolf Lewy
Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.
The attack
Louis Davidson
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
Jazz and the Horn
Part 2Julius Watkins
Jeffrey Agrell
A pioneering career, landmark recordings and collaborations with jazz legends gave the French horn a place it had never occupied before.
Musical Piracy
Plagiarism, Photocopying
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Long before digital piracy, publishers and performers were already confronting plagiarism, photocopying and blurred artistic ownership across the brass world.
Oscillatory Mechanism of the Glotis in Horn Playing
Philippe-Henri Dejonker, Francis Orval, R. Miller, R. Sneppe
A horn note may begin before it is heard, as subtle vocal-fold oscillations appear to prepare the airflow that the lips will ultimately shape.
Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching
Sergej Gorovoj
What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?
10 Outstanding Trumpet Players in the Los Angeles Area
Boyde Hood
Behind the polished sound of Los Angeles studio trumpet playing stood remarkably similar training, disciplined routines, and a craft shaped by constant stylistic demands.