Repertoire

Modern editions of original 17th-century brass ensemble music

Seventeenth-century brass music regained its place in the repertoire, but modern editions often altered the original keys, instrumentation and balance between voices.

By Klaus Winkler

Part 2

Tubas in Jazz and Popular Music

By Michel Laplace

Part 1

French cornet methods published before Arban's Complete Grand Method for Cornet and Saxhorn

By Friedrich Anzenberger

Why pretend to be Mozart?

The concerto’s cadenza: copy of style — or bold but true?

Should a cadenza imitate the past—or speak in today’s voice? Bernhard Krol questions the tradition of stylistic imitation and argues for cadenzas that bridge past and present with authenticity.

By Bernhard Krol

Part 2

Jazz Improvisation

The harmonic minor scale

By Charlie Shoemake

Unknown trumpet works which deserve attention

Anonymous (early classical), Concerto in D major

By Albert Hiller

Harri Lidsle

Master stroke of a young Finnish tubist

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

The alto trombone and contemporary concepts of trombone timbre

Alto trombone timbre from Vienna to Brahms, orchestral balance, period practice, and why bright brass sounds gradually disappeared.

By William E. Runyan

Brass Ensemble Music Publications from Great Britain

By Christopher Mowat

Carnival of Venice at the age of more than 125!

By Emil Hermann

About my “48 Lyric Studies”

By Thomas Stevens

Part 2

The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet

Continuation of Edward H. Tarr’s study on the Baroque trumpet, examining the high trumpet and further clarifying the concept of the “Bach trumpet.”

By Edward H. Tarr

Editorial

A wealth of Baroque music lies dormant in libraries, caught between historical instrument names, technical demands, and the competing claims of horn and trumpet players.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 3

French cornet methods published before Arban's Complete Grand Method for Cornet and Saxhorn

By Friedrich Anzenberger

Serious Music this Side of the Ghetto

Between Darmstadt serialism and neo-tonality, the place of serious music in society is questioned through Berg, Schönberg and the post-war avant-garde.

By Rolf Urs Ringger

The development of the amateur wind-band repertoire in Central Europe since 1950

After 1950, Central Europe’s amateur wind bands became a testing ground where inherited traditions, modern composition, popular music and education collided.

By Wolfgang Suppan

Horn and Harp

Virtuoso showpieces once filled concert halls, yet today the rare pairing of horn and harp preserves a forgotten musical world shaped by performers themselves.

By Ch. Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht

The Composer Adrift

By Stanley Friedman

Part 3

The Haydn Trumpet Concerto

Haydn’s trumpet concerto becomes a study of manuscript detail, performance choices, and the fragile ways listeners receive a familiar work.

By Alfred Willener

The Horn and Piano Duo

By Hermann Baumann

Part 1

Trombone and Organ, a Dialog

By Klaus Winkler

A voyage with Roland Szentpali, Hungarian tubist and composer

By Levente Kövesdi

Part 2

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

The “Classical” Period 1927-1945 — The Golden Age of the Trumpet

Between Armstrong’s rise and bebop’s arrival, the trumpet became jazz’s dominant voice, reshaping technique, orchestras, sound, mutes and virtuosity.

By Michel Laplace

Bernhard Krol (1920-2013)

Composer

By Jean-Pierre Mathez