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Two Typical Leadership Styles of Conductors to Watch For

PUBLISHED: November 6, 2009, Bruce Hembd

With regard to leadership there are basically two types of music conductors: Those that lead from the side Those that lead from the front Conductors that lead from the side will begin rehearsals with broad concepts. They allow details to organically evolve from the musicians in rehearsal and will mold this organic process into a [...]

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4 Tips on Orchestration and Horns

PUBLISHED: October 23, 2009, Bruce Hembd
The coda of a 4-page chart. While there are some rests, this doubled both 1st trumpet and clarinet.

In “Composers who Can’t Write for the Horn” John Ericson made some very good points for composers to pay attention to. At a number of the church-related gigs I do, music arrangements are purchased or done on-the-fly for the occasion. More often than not, the horn parts are not very idiomatic to the instrument. This [...]

The Top Ten Orchestral Works for Horn

PUBLISHED: September 27, 2009, John Ericson

I recently had a question come in on what were the most important horn excerpts. Back when I was first at Arizona State I decided to sort this out once and for all, the results of which were published as “A New ICSOM Audition List Survey” in the October, 2002 issue of The Horn Call. [...]

Online Horn Section Listings FAQ

PUBLISHED: September 2, 2009, John Ericson

I am so glad to find your site! So much information! But where are the horn section listings I heard about? Horn section listings? Yes, I was just reading A Devil to Play and it says they are in some website in Arizona. Are you those guys? You are in Arizona after all. Oh yes, [...]

Top Twenty Posts from the Horn Notes Blog

PUBLISHED: August 31, 2009, John Ericson

With the launch of Horn Matters it is a great time to look back at the overall stats of the Horn Notes Blog, 2004-2009. By far the number one page in the site was the page of playing tips, which has been transferred over to Horn Matters here. After that, the top seven posts were [...]

Bruce and John FAQ

PUBLISHED: August 30, 2009, John Ericson
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So, you have started a huge new horn website! How did you meet? We met in real life in 1984. That year Bruce was a Junior at The Eastman School of Music and John was a new MM student, a graduate of Emporia State University in Kansas. We were in the same ensembles rotation, sat [...]

How to Become a Horn Expert I

PUBLISHED: July 27, 2009, John Ericson

How do you become great at the horn, or at anything? I was thinking about this recently and came up with five major points. This is part one of a series for this week 1. Be curious. A lot of the things I have learned on horn relate directly to general curiosity. Originally it was [...]

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John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.