Most every semester people working on research projects contact me about various topics related to the horn in the 19th century. This spring in particular I was contacted by someone researching the odd notations in the horn parts of Wagner. They had found a reference to this article
“The Valve Horn and Its Performing Techniques in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview.” The Horn Call Annual 4 (1992), 2-32.
and had some questions after locating a copy of it. Honestly, I look at that article now and think that article is very preliminary, being written as a project as a Doctoral student. It was my very first published article! My first question for them was had they read this article:
“Joseph Rudolphe Lewy and Valved Horn Technique in Germany, 1837-1851.” The Horn Call Annual 9 (1997), 23-35.
as it goes into much more detail about the topic and is based on materials from my dissertation. After a series of e-mails I finally sent them a PDF of the later article.
Looking back I feel that this is the best article of all the articles I have published. This is the cover of the issue in which it appeared.
Many if not most Horn Matters readers probably have never heard of The Horn Call Annual. It was an annual, refereed journal put out by the International Horn Society but not for years now, the 1997 issue was the last.
I still look back and marvel a bit at it. I wrote this? Yes I did! I really got into the topic as I wrote it while playing Third Horn full time in Nashville. The more I looked at it the more I realized that existing sources on the topic were inadequate and I could see a bigger picture than they presented.
If you are curious to read it this particular article, you can [UPDATE] read it online, it is among the full run of issues of IHS publications that may be accessed by members of the IHS! I recommend you consider joining, there is a lot of great reading to be found in The Horn Call Annual.
