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Horn Repertoire Week 9: The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period
This week our discussion will focus on topics discussed in and articles linked from this article from last year, The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period Highlights of our listening and discussion this...
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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part IV, the Future and Final Tips
This article concludes an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here. With increased numbers of people flying to auditions and greater...
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Video: How Good is Good Enough? – A Lecture by Douglas Yeo
Back in January my trombone colleague at Arizona State University, Douglas Yeo, presented a lecture to the Brass Area on the topic of “How Good is Good Enough?” The video is below (actually, audio...
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Horndude77, and a Project that You can Support
If you have used ISMLP to access horn music you have probably seen the user name Horndude77. If not, first take a second and check out the link below: List of Compositions Featuring the Horn The list...
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Professor Corno: Five Thoughts on Dinosaurs
And I don’t mean real the pre-historic ones, I mean the musical ones that inhabit our horn world. I have also heard them referred to as silverbacks. There are at least five ways to spot them. 1. Out of...
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The Fallen Hornist?
A recent article titled “The Fallen Classical Violinist” on the blog of Composer and Violinist Mark O’Connor has I am sure generated some traffic and discussion on the Internet. I would recommend it...
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The Orchestra Model and Professional Sports
Periodically professional orchestra work stoppages are in the news. One question I get asked is to explain what is going on, and an analogy I go back to relates to professional sports as compared to...
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Random Wednesday: Playing Catch-up, Memes and Plastic Brains
Wish granted Through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, a Chicago area teenager with Related articles: Random Wednesday: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, Brain Memes and Random Videos Last week it was noted...
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Horn Repertoire Week 10: The Early Valved Horn
This week we have one fairly long reading that, with the linked readings, covers a lot of ground! The Early Valved Horn In addition also check out the reading in the descant and triple horn E-Book on...
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Mark S. Veneklasen–Horn Visionary, 1944-2013
This week the following article was received from Walter Hecht. The name Mark S. Veneklasen (8/21/1944-1/22/2013) should be familiar to many Horn Matters readers as there has been an article by Walter...
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Professor Corno: Five Thoughts on Dinosaurs
And I don’t mean real the pre-historic ones, I mean the musical ones that inhabit our horn world. Silverbacks. There are at least five ways to spot them. 1. Out of touch with the musical world of the...
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Question from the Mailbag: What Level of Horn Should an Adult Amateur Buy?
Ryan asks: I am in the market for a new horn and I’ve noticed intermediate horns seem to have the same specs, but are typically $1000 less than professional horns. Seeing as I am an amateur player,...
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Interview: Rose French on Rangsongs
In 2012 Mountain Peak Music released a new book for horn players. While outwardly an etude book, I am hesitant to put Rangsongs in that category as, while usable as an etude book in lessons, it also...
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Existentialism and the Paradigm of Trolls, Musicians and Union Labor
As regular readers might know, I am an avid follower of internet culture, especially meme humor. What I find most fascinating is how some meme-based concepts evolve and take root into the broader,...
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Horn Repertoire Week 11: The Valved Horn in the Later 19th Century
Continuing forward in horn history, some of our best, most characteristic horn literature (especially orchestral) dates to the second half of the nineteenth century. The main reading this week looks at...
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More on the Veneklasen V1 and V2
Following up on the article last week on the passing of Mark Veneklasen, Walter Hecht had two things too add that fill in a few more details on the V1 and V2 prototype horns. Two things have occurred...
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From the Files: Mouthpiece Pressure in Horn Playing
With this article I begin a new series of articles for Horn Matters featuring quotes from print articles from not that long ago really. It is striking though how if it is not on the Internet it seems...
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Horn Repertoire Bonus Week: Stuck in the Nineteenth Century
We are not actually stuck there, but there is a ton to cover and, due to a quirk of the semester schedule at ASU, we have an extra Tuesday I had not planned for when I laid out the course initially....
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Brief Review: Wedge Mouthpiece
A reader who switched to the new wedge mouthpiece, and is enthusiastic about it, recently sent me his spare mouthpiece to consider for review. After a bit of brief trial I can offer some initial...
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Horn Repertoire Week 12: The Wagner Tuba
Continuing our look at some of the standard works horn players perform often from the nineteenth century our next topic is the Wagner tuba. Amazingly, just over a week ago the Wagner tuba was the topic...
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