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Review update: Horn Playing from the Inside Out, Third Edition eBook

New for 2021 is an updated version of Horn Playing from the Inside Out by Eli Epstein. While we don’t often do reviews, this...

Horn Etudes by Female Composers

Many Horn Matters readers will be familiar with the Works with Horn by Female Composers website by Dr. Lin Foulk. If not, this is...

Brief review of a bell cover, and making the most of...

Before getting to the review, I would like to open by noting that COVID protocols are all over the map for schools and ensembles. I...

Brief review: Accompanied Kopprasch, piano accompaniments for Kopprasch etudes

The latest product in the Millennium Kopprasch series from Jeffrey Agrell is one that I think will have wide appeal, Accompanied Kopprasch. In Volume I...

Brief review: Recipe for Success — a new method for young...

Anyone who teaches lessons to young horn players knows already, not only are there limited materials easily available to teach from, but...

Brief review: The Creative Hornist by Jeffrey Agrell

Creativity. One observation I have had is that people outside of music, often they are looking for creativity, that special spark, tying that idea...

Brief Review: An Inexpensive Natural Horn

With a small amount of funds available, I had an idea how to use them for something that would help the studio. What I...

Brief review: Horn Technique by Jeffrey Agrell

Those familiar with older horn publications will recall a classic 1962 book by Gunther Schuller titled Horn Technique. It is so compact that you can practically...

Review update: Horn Playing from the Inside Out, Third Edition

Back in 2013 Horn Matters reviewed the first edition of Horn Playing from the Inside Out by Eli Epstein. In three parts, that review...

A quick look at Horn Playing: A New Approach

Recently Alex Manners completed a Doctoral project looking at published horn warmup routines, described in this recent article and accompanied with two podcast episodes...