The Ultimate “Best Schools for Horn Study” Article
The question always comes up about what are the best schools for horn study. I have taken a stab at answering this question a...
Are Highly-Rated Horn Professors Overrated?
A few days ago I saw a link to an interesting article with the title "Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated." The article...
Classic study materials: The Pottag Preparatory Melodies
One classic publication I have come back to recently is Preparatory Melodies to Solo Work for French Horn edited by Max P. Pottag. This...
Choosing the Right School
It is that time of year again; people are looking for schools for horn study. Last spring I had a specific question come in...
What [Type of] School is Best for Horn Study?
This article was first posted on the original HTML Horn Notes Blog way back on 11/1/04. It is timely again--today was the last day...
I’m in Music Education – Why Do I Need to Know...
The sentiment behind the question presented in the title is that only performance majors pursuing a career in orchestral playing need to worry about...
Dream Big, Think Small
In regard to a previous post - "Dreams and Goals; Music Performance and Music Education" - I have gotten some feedback though private emails,...
The Community College Alternative
At The Business of Music, Rose French makes a strong argument for instrumentalists to consider a music education degree over a performance degree.
What most...
Where can you Study Music Education and Not Take Marching Band?
Many horn players are not fans of marching. Often for instrumental music education majors marching band is a required course. At some schools, however,...
Interview: Rose French on Rangesongs
In 2012 Mountain Peak Music released a new book for horn players. While outwardly an etude book, I am hesitant to put Rangsongs in...