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BrassBulletin

International Magazine for Brass Players

Teaching

110 articles

Editorial Free
No. 53 • 1986 Digitized

Special Finland

Editorial

In 1980s Finland, distance and long summers helped turn brass education into a national network, with Lieksa emerging as an unlikely meeting point.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Teaching Sociology
Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching Free
No. 41 • 1983 Digitized

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?

By Sergej Gorovoj

Teaching Acoustics Sound Breathing Tongue
Editorial Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

Editorial

At the dawn of the 1980s, Brass Bulletin challenges institutional habits, avant-garde rigidity and brass pedagies through a direct appeal to younger musicians.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society Teaching Sociology Ideas
Editorial Free
No. 45 • 1984 Digitized

Editorial

Between disciplined practice and creative folly, musicianship emerges where scales and systems give way to imagination, instinct and the unsettling freedom to think.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Technique Mental approach Interpretation Ideas
No. 120 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 6

The instrumental player’s maintenance and development

The opinion of an expert

By James Thompson

Teaching
ASA-Method Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

ASA-Method

From Bach’s clarino tradition to modern piccolo trumpet playing, extreme high-register technique is tied here to breath support, pressure control and disciplined endurance.

By Rolf Quinque

Technique Teaching Breathing Range Endurance
No. 105 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Part 6

James Stamp Master in listening

By Jean-Christophe Wiener

Teaching
No. 67 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Thoughts on being your own teacher

By Frøydis Ree Wekre

Teaching
Editorial Free
No. 32 • 1980 Digitized

Editorial

Progress by Stages

Between technical routine and lived experience, musical growth emerges through setbacks, observation and the gradual shaping of an individual voice.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Health Nerves Interpretation Ideas
Blowing as a body function Member
No. 34 • 1981 Digitized

Blowing as a body function

Breathing habits, posture and body mechanics converge in a practical view of tone production, where William F. Cramer questions prevailing assumptions.

By William F. Cramer

Technique Teaching Breathing Sound Articulation
No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Part 4

James Stamp Master in listening

Small details make a big difference...

By Jean-Christophe Wiener

Teaching
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
Practical Hints Free
No. 36 • 1981 Digitized

Part 7

Practical Hints

Tone stability remains the foundation of velocity as James Stamp reshapes a Clarke study into a preparatory exercise linking sound control with fluent technical playing.

By James Stamp

Technique Teaching
Practical Hints Member
No. 32 • 1980 Digitized

Part 3

Practical Hints

A preparatory adaptation of a Clarke technical study reframes finger technique, airflow, and efficiency through a progressive approach to daily practice.

By James Stamp

Technique Teaching
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