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BrassBulletin

International Magazine for Brass Players

Contemporary Music

34 articles available online

Miroslav Kejmar Free
No. 31 • 1980 Digitized

Miroslav Kejmar

Portrait in brief

From Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto to Czech contemporary music, the Prague trumpeter combined Baroque precision with orchestral versatility across Europe.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Professional life Solo playing Orchestral playing Contemporary Music
Mario Guarneri Free
No. 26 • 1979 Digitized

Mario Guarneri

Portrait in brief

From San Francisco to New York and Los Angeles, a trumpet career unfolds across major orchestras, recordings and teaching, alongside a sustained commitment to access and contemporary music.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Professional life Orchestral playing Brass Ensemble Contemporary Music
Editorial Free
No. 35 • 1981 Digitized

Editorial

New editorial formats separate current news from long-form content while creating new links between performers, composers, and the evolving brass community.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Professional life Competition Contemporary Music
Editorial Free
No. 17 • 1977 Digitized

Editorial

Between tradition and innovation: brass players must move beyond routine and embrace new musical directions to remain relevant in the music of tomorrow.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society Ideas Contemporary Music
Free
No. 25 • 1979 Digitized

Dreams and wishes

Things I would like to see happen concerning the horn and horn playing

A set of proposals for the future of the horn: Jeffrey Agrell addresses editions, pedagogy, instruments, and repertoire—from Mozart to contemporary practice.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Equipment Repertoire Ideas Contemporary Music Orchestral playing
Playing and singing simultaneously on brass instruments Member
No. 35 • 1981 Digitized

Part 1

Playing and singing simultaneously on brass instruments

From Weber and Vivier to contemporary solo works, singing into the brass instrument becomes a multiphonic technique shaped by notation, acoustics, and practice.

By Benny Sluchin

Technique Contemporary Music Sound Intonation
The Polyphonic Trombone Free
No. 45 • 1984 Digitized

The Polyphonic Trombone

A suggested notation system

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

By Klaus-K. Hübler

Repertoire Technique Contemporary Music
Benny Sluchin Free
No. 30 • 1980 Digitized

Benny Sluchin

Portrait in brief

Between Paris, Cologne and Tel Aviv, Benny Sluchin brings mathematics, acoustics and contemporary performance into the brass world.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Professional life Contemporary Music Solo playing Orchestral playing
I chose to address myself to new music rather than new trumpet Free
No. 5 • 1973 Digitized

I chose to address myself to new music rather than new trumpet

Thomas Stevens argues that progress in trumpet playing depends on better training, repertoire and musical thinking rather than on equipment.

By Thomas Stevens

Repertoire Contemporary Music
Member
No. 32 • 1980 Digitized

Brass studies in Australia

As international performers, seminars and teachers reached Australia in the late 1970s, a geographically isolated brass scene began finding its own direction.

By David O'Meara

Report Teaching Sociology Orchestral playing Contemporary Music
Conversation by the fireside Free
No. 7 • 1974 Digitized

Conversation by the fireside

A fireside conversation with Philip Jones, Elgar Howarth and Michael Laird—an intimate exchange on brass playing, ensemble culture and musical thinking.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Repertoire Brass Ensemble Contemporary Music
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