Update: Copy, Paste and Steal

Another excellent online resource. One great thing about the Internet is that scholarly materials once hidden away in dusty library shelves have become more readily available to the public. Some researchers publish their works online as full-fledged web sites, making them freely available at the click of a mouse. A few examples already noted here [...]

I recently updated my list of horn pedagogy resources in my studio site. It is not a comprehensive list but reflects what I think are among the best resources out there. Several are, unfortunately, out of print. Looking at the list, there is only one book from before 1956, The French Horn by Dr. Birchard [...]

How to get a horn geek riled up. Horn aficionados and geeks as a general rule, are a pretty easy-going breed. But if we get riled-up, watch out! We absolutely will not stop arguing until every last point that we can think of has been exhausted — at least twice. So, what jibes can you [...]

One question I was asked recently was about some of the “Random Links” in the links list at  the Horn Notes Blog. Were they just randomly generated? No, actually they were items I found interesting for various reasons but certainly were a random grouping. One of the more random items was the “High Note Trumpet [...]

Improvement — a process of subtraction. Music is the space between the notes. This well-known quotation attributed to the Impressionist composer Claude Debussy can have many different meanings. Beethoven’s Fifth Take for example the famous opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: More often than not, at least one of the two fermatas are followed by a [...]

As I have mentioned somewhat in passing in a few recent posts, I have been working on a large writing project this summer in the time freed up by practicing very little, no ASU in session, and no summer festival this year. Last week I hit a large roadblock on this. About that same day [...]