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The Kopprasch Op. 5 Etudes and a New Free “Low Horn” Version as a PDF!

PUBLISHED: August 14, 2011, John Ericson

Way back in 1997 The Horn Call published an article that I wrote on the history of the Kopprasch etudes, a version of which may be found online here. Also back a couple years ago I posted an article in Horn Matters that focused on the original 1832/33 version of the Kopprasch etudes, and that [...]

Forging the Sword; The End of ‘Siegfried’ Act I

PUBLISHED: July 7, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Even with the Long Call aside, playing principal horn in Wagner’s horn-tastic opera Siegfried is nothing short of a Herculean task. To help reinforce and illustrate that notion, today’s article features a few samples from Siegfried, Act I/Scene III. Scene III begins with the hero Siegfried becoming persuaded then determined to reconstruct Nothung, a mythical [...]

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Slaying the Dragon; Before & After the Siegfried Horn Call

PUBLISHED: July 2, 2010, Bruce Hembd

For the French horn player, there is lots of fun playing to do in the opera Siegfried from Wagner’s Ring Cycle. This composition, in my opinion, should always rank high in any hypothetical list of top classical compositions for French horn. Of course for starters, there is the famous Long Call in Act II of [...]

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Download W. A. Mozart, K. 407 Quintet, arranged for brass (I)

PUBLISHED: May 12, 2010, Bruce Hembd
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UPDATE: See Part II Playing chamber music as a career can be like a marriage, goes the popular notion. Shortly after graduating from Eastman, I gained stable employment in a brass quintet in Houston, Texas. Yes – in my group we sometimes fought like angry cats in a wet bag but overall, we had a [...]

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Restored PDF Downloads, III

PUBLISHED: April 22, 2010, Bruce Hembd

The final round: Harmonics PDF. The original post. Scale Studies I PDF. The original post. Scale Studies II PDF. The original post.

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Restored PDF Downloads, II

PUBLISHED: April 15, 2010, Bruce Hembd

UPDATE: Fixed broken links. UPDATE 2: Fixed yet more broken links on the original posts. More warm-up and exercise PDFs. Please see Part I for details. Pitch Benders PDF. The post. Slurpies PDF. The post. Till Eulenspiegel Exercise PDF. The post.

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Restored PDF Downloads, I

PUBLISHED: April 7, 2010, Bruce Hembd

UPDATE 4/18/10 Fixed broken links on the original posts. With the temporary hibernation of horndoggie.com, some PDF materials that were housed there and linked here at Horn Matters disappeared into the Internet ether. Here is the first round of restoring those lost X-files to the downloads page and to each individual post describing the PDF’s [...]

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on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.