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Updated 23 Aug 2026
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Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos? – Part 3
Deliberate divisions
By Peter Damm
Improvisation, articulation and ornament were once inseparable: Peter Damm recovers an 18th-century horn practice later narrowed by increasingly precise notation.
Round the Horn
Hamburg 1982
By Michael Höltzel
A 1982 Hamburg exhibition brought 150 horns out of collections and into players’ hands, collapsing centuries of hunting, signalling and concert traditions into one room.
Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos? – Part 2
Essential ornaments
By Peter Damm
Natural horn technique left little room for excess: Peter Damm sets 18th-century ornamentation against the practical limits of range, style and notation.
Jazz and the Horn – Part 3
Getting started
By Jeffrey Agrell
For the classically trained horn player, jazz replaces the security of the printed page with listening, swing and improvisation—and a different kind of discipline.
Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos? – Part 1
By Peter Damm
Performance once depended as much on informed invention as on written notes, and early horn concertos still carry that forgotten freedom in plain sight.
Oscillatory Mechanism of the Glotis in Horn Playing
By 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.
Jazz and the Horn – Part 2
Julius Watkins
By Jeffrey Agrell
A pioneering career, landmark recordings and collaborations with jazz legends gave the French horn a place it had never occupied before.
Horn and Harp
By Ch. Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht
Virtuoso showpieces once filled concert halls, yet today the rare pairing of horn and harp preserves a forgotten musical world shaped by performers themselves.
Jazz and the Horn – Part 1
By Jeffrey Agrell
The horn was once considered incompatible with jazz until changing ideas of sound and musicians like John Graas quietly overturned that certainty.
Mouthpiece pressure in Horn Playing
Graduation project in technical method
By Edgar Bürger
Long before sensors entered the practice room, one horn student measured embouchure pressure by hand, challenging assumptions that still shape brass pedagogy.
The hunting horn
By Jacques Poncet
Long-held beliefs about the French hunting horn are challenged as forgotten playing practices and Baroque traditions reshape its early history and repertoire.
The French Hunting horn, its history, its technique and its music
By Daniel Bourgue
Centuries-old hunting signals still shape performance today, where technique, ritual and oral tradition preserved a musical language unlike any other brass practice.