Tongue
7 digitized articles
Willener, Alfred
Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris
What if everything you control is wrong? This radical approach to brass playing shifts focus away from the embouchure — back to the true origin of breath and sound.
Brass Bulletin No 18 · 1977
Trumpet· Technique· Teaching· Breathing· Sound
Orval, Francis
Phonetics in the articulation and expression of the language of music
Rethinking articulation: Francis Orval challenges traditional teaching—revealing how phonetics, language, and psychology shape sound, phrasing, and musical expression.
Brass Bulletin No 23 · 1978
Technique· Teaching· Articulation· Tongue
Dokschidser, Timofey
Articulation or bowing on the trumpet
Trumpet articulation becomes a precise study of attack, sustain, release and legato, linking tongue, breath, lips and sound in Dokshitser’s method.
Brass Bulletin No 30 · 1980
Trumpet· Technique· Teaching· Russian school· Articulation
Dokschidser, Timofey
Articulation or bowing on the trumpet
Trumpet articulation becomes a full performing language, from détaché and staccato to legato, glissando, dynamics and score interpretation.
Brass Bulletin No 31 · 1980
Trumpet· Technique· Teaching· Articulation· Tongue
Davidson, Louis
The attack
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
Brass Bulletin No 41 · 1983
Trumpet· Technique· Teaching· Articulation· Tongue
Gorovoj, Sergej
Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching
What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?
Brass Bulletin No 41 · 1983
Trombone· Teaching· Acoustics· Sound· Breathing
Davidson, Louis
Tonguing
A tiny shift in tongue movement changes speed, endurance and clarity, turning articulation from a mechanical attack into one of the trumpet player’s subtlest tools.
Brass Bulletin No 44 · 1983
Trumpet· Technique· Teaching· Articulation· Tongue