Brass Bulletin No. 47
III / 1984
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10 articles
Out of print
Brass Bulletin No. 47
III / 1984
Contents
Editorial
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jean-Pierre Mathez
A ghostly Arban returns in 1984 to find virtuosity thriving, instruments transformed and a brass world whose progress leaves its greatest pedagogue strangely displaced.
The trumpet in the north German postal service of the 19th century
Albert Hiller
For forty years, northern German postilions exchanged the familiar post-horn for trumpets, turning postal signals into an unexpected echo of military practice.
John Fletcher
Is Big Always Beautiful?
Thomas Aitken
As brass instruments grew larger and louder, John Fletcher saw something being lost: the individual voice, clarity and character that make a player heard.
Science in the service of music
Interview with René Périnelli
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Where trumpet teaching once relied on intuition, René Périnelli and Jean-Jacques Greffin brought physiology, medical imaging and science into daily practice.
Interview with Thomas Müller
Jeffrey Agrell
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.
Maurice Ravel and the new trombone
Michel Laplace
Dance-band trombonists reshaped orchestral expectations in the 1920s and 30s, leaving their mark on Ravel’s Boléro and a generation of players.
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
Part 6 – EndSpecial jazz techniques
Michel Laplace
Vibrato, half-valves, growls and shakes lead to a larger argument: jazz transformed trumpet technique, yet its contribution remained strikingly undervalued.
On hunting horns and other similar instruments
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
Pierre Trichet
Hunting horns, buccinae and cornets blur into one another as Trichet links ancient signals, shepherds, hunters and myth to the instruments of his own age.
Jazz and the Horn
Part 5Tom Varner
Jeffrey Agrell
Choosing jazz over the orchestral path, Tom Varner confronts the horn’s stiffness, projection and unlikely place as a front-line improvising voice.
Paolo Longinotti (1913-1963)
His career
Jean-Pierre Mathez
A virtuoso of Ansermet’s orchestra, piccolo-trumpet pioneer and mentor to Maurice André, Longinotti’s brilliance was matched by a devastating final chapter.