Four Tips for Getting Back in Shape after Taking a Break
Recently I picked up my horn again after a 4-week break. I like to take summer breaks for several reasons many of which I...
Top Eight TV Themes with Featured Horns
Favorite horn music from boob tube themes.*
A few weeks ago I featured a series of "Horn-tastic" television series themes - American TV show themes...
Seven Tips for Cadenzas
A long orchestral tutti builds and builds, leading towards an inevitable resolution and long fermata. The conductor signals a cut-off and after a few...
9 Ways We can Tell that a Composer or Arranger Does...
Periodically we at Horn Matters have touched on the topic of bad horn writing. Horn players reading this already have a good idea, intuitively,...
Ultrasonic Cleaning FAQ
Recently I made some decisions about what pieces I will perform at the Southeast Horn Workshop this year. Part of that decision making process...
8 Signs That it Might Be Time to Change Teachers
Private music lessons are a time-honored tradition for learning how to play an instrument. The experience is really hard to beat in terms of hands-on, focused...
4 Issues that point to a composer not knowing how to...
As horn players we see a lot of horn parts written by composers who don’t really know how to write for the horn. First,...
7 Tactics to Develop Sight-Reading
One skill we all know we need is the ability to sight-read music well. Some people are better than others at this. Traditionally part...
A Tunable Horn Mute FAQ
While this topic came up in a sectional last week, it is actually a topic I have meant to post on for quite some...
11 Horn-tastic TV Themes
Today's post is a restoration of some files that were previously lost.
Xena Warrior Princess
Odd meters, battle cries and strains of the Bulgarian women...