Brass Bulletin No. 45
I / 1984
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10 articles
Out of print
Brass Bulletin No. 45
I / 1984
Contents
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
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
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
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
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
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 4Thomas Bacon
Jeffrey Agrell
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 4The instrument for jazz
Michel Laplace
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 – EndChanges and modifications of tempo
Peter Damm
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
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
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.