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Brass Bulletin 45 - 1 / 1984
Issue
Brass Bulletin No. 45
Date
I / 1984
Pages
88
Contents
10 articles

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Brass Bulletin No. 45

I / 1984

Contents

10 articles

Editorial

Jean-Pierre Mathez

pp. 8–9 Teaching Technique

Between disciplined practice and creative folly, musicianship emerges where scales and systems give way to imagination, instinct and the unsettling freedom to think.

On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

Pierre Trichet

pp. 10–12 Trombone History Equipment

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.

Harry James (1916-1983)

Young Man With A Horn

Michel Laplace

pp. 14–17 Trumpet Cornet à pistons Encounters History

Harry James stood between jazz virtuosity and popular showmanship, turning the trumpet into a mass-audience voice without losing the respect of classical players.

Brass in the Operas of Berlioz

Benjamin Perl

pp. 18–30 History Repertoire

Berlioz turned a changing brass section into a dramatic force, using horns, trombones, cornets and saxhorns to shape colour, distance, ceremony and fear.

The Polyphonic Trombone

A suggested notation system

Klaus-K. Hübler

pp. 31–33 Trombone Repertoire Technique

When trombone slide, overtones, breath and valves become independent musical voices, conventional notation reaches its limits and a new system becomes necessary.

Jazz and the Horn

Part 4

Thomas Bacon

Jeffrey Agrell

pp. 34–37 Horn Encounters

Classical discipline meets jazz-rock freedom as Thomas Bacon confronts improvisation, stylistic crossover and the physical demands placed on the horn.

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

Part 4

The instrument for jazz

Michel Laplace

pp. 38–44 Trumpet Cornet à pistons History

Jazz trumpet playing balances equipment, embouchure and articulation, as changing sound ideals reshape mouthpieces, technique and the physical approach to playing.

Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?

Part 4 – End

Changes and modifications of tempo

Peter Damm

pp. 46–54 Horn History Repertoire

Tempo, dynamics and cadenzas expose how much an 18th-century horn concerto once depended on choices that modern notation and instruments can easily obscure.

Albert Calvayrac

Portrait

Jean-Pierre Mathez

pp. 58–60 Trumpet Encounters

A career nearly abandoned after a disastrous switch from cornet to trumpet became a lesson in self-knowledge, persistence and an unexpected return to music.

A major chamber music work for brass?

Quintet, by Peter Maxwell Davies

Thomas Aitken

pp. 62–65 Repertoire Backstage

A BBC studio session turns Maxwell Davies’s brass quintet into a test of virtuosity, balance and whether brass could claim a new place in chamber music.

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