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Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test

PUBLISHED: January 8, 2012, John Ericson

A week from today I will present a session at the 2012 Southwest Horn Conference with the title “Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test.” The following was turned in for the program book: Many elements of a conventional approach to horn playing were put forth by Philip Farkas in his 1956 text The [...]

Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part II: Yancich, Fox, and Berv

PUBLISHED: December 16, 2011, John Ericson

In part I Schuller and Farkas ultimately come across as not being big advocates of multiple tonguing. Today we turn a corner however and arrive at sources a bit more committed to learning the skill. Milan Yancich in A Practical Guide to French Horn Playing has a section of exercises to develop triple and double [...]

Hornmasters on Average Tonguing, part II: Schuller and Yancich

PUBLISHED: October 20, 2011, John Ericson

Gunther Schuller in Horn Technique has a rather different take on the tongue and tonguing than Farkas. He certainly does not agree with the up and down idea of a tongue stroke and offers an alternate approach to tonguing. The tongue during a note, i.e. after the attack, pulls back into a relatively relaxed suspended [...]

Hornmasters: Yancich and Fox on the Slur, Air, and Vowels

PUBLISHED: August 23, 2011, John Ericson

Continuing our series on the topic of the slur, air, and vowels, Milan Yancich has an interesting angle on the “wah-wah” problem in the form of an exercise in A Practical Guide to French Horn Playing. He calls it “Line in Tone Production.” What he is looking for is the perfect portamento between notes played [...]

Dennis Brain in Chicago, November 25-26, 1950; Some Notes from Dennis Brain: A Life in Music

PUBLISHED: May 26, 2011, John Ericson

A massive new biography of the great British horn virtuoso Dennis Brain was just published this month by UNT press, Dennis Brain: A Life in Music. While I anticipate I will have a more formal review of this publication soon I would offer some initial notes and also look at two interesting quotations related to [...]

A Conversation with Jeff Stockham and Tom Varner: Can We Play Both French Horn and Trumpet? (Part I)

PUBLISHED: May 15, 2011, Tom Varner

Today Horn Matters welcomes another guest contributor, Tom Varner. * * * I have never been able to double on trumpet and horn, having played only horn since I was 9, and as an “old” 16-year-old, getting into jazz, I felt that the embouchure adjustment was too great.  The only player that I know of [...]

Hornmasters: Yancich on the Second and Third Warm-Up

PUBLISHED: January 25, 2011, John Ericson

One type of warm-up that is rarely discussed in print is the second and third warm-up of the day. One of the few to address this topic is Milan Yancich in A Practical Guide to French Horn Playing. The volume starts with warm-ups. The first several exercises are quite similar to those presented by Gunther [...]

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