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Three Quotes on the Horn in the Nineteenth Century

PUBLISHED: July 28, 2011, John Ericson

One of the things I enjoy is quotations from older sources; they give a window into horn playing and our past from a first person perspective. These three quotations look back at the horn in the nineteenth century from a much closer perspective than we have today. Our first quote today is from 1925 but [...]

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5 Quotations on Work and Success

PUBLISHED: June 29, 2011, Bruce Hembd

A few years ago when Horn Matters first launched, we had a random quotation feature that appeared at the top of the site. After a few months I removed the random quotations in an effort to simplify and subtract from the overall design; looking at that list a few days ago, and I was struck [...]

Website: Aubrey Brain (1893-1955), Master of his Instrument

PUBLISHED: June 28, 2011, John Ericson

In recent correspondence I was pointed toward a great online resource on Aubrey Brain, father of the virtuoso hornist Dennis Brain. It is by Stephen Gamble, a co-author of the new book Dennis Brain: A Life in Music. I have a brief review of a portion of this book here. The Aubrey Brain website is [...]

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“Tut” for a Short, Crisp Staccato?

PUBLISHED: February 15, 2011, John Ericson

Scott Whitener in A Complete Guide to Brass notes that The so-called tongued release does have its place…. Professional players often make use of it by adding a “t” at the end of the note (“tut”) in very staccato passages. This produces a shortness and crispness that can be obtained no other way. A mantra [...]

Hornmasters: The Exhale and Points of Resistance, Part II

PUBLISHED: November 18, 2010, John Ericson

As I have noted elsewhere, horn teachers of days gone by seem to rarely have attacked each other directly. But if you read their methods critically you can tell they could not possibly have agreed with each other on many things, which is certainly that case in relation to the exhale and the points of [...]

Hornmasters: The Exhale and Points of Resistance, Part I

PUBLISHED: November 16, 2010, John Ericson

In this series of Hornmasters articles a topic I have honestly not looked forward to addressing is that of the points of resistance. It is topic I generally hope to never have to speak to a student about as it can tie a student up in knots. It is also however a very important topic [...]

Hornmasters on Lip Moisture

PUBLISHED: August 27, 2010, John Ericson

Another topic that was groundbreaking to discuss in The Art of French Horn Playing was that of lip moisture, that is, playing with wet or dry lips. It is in reality another hot topic of horn and brass playing and most published sources are a bit one-sided in favor of wet lips. Farkas states I [...]

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