John Ericson
Horn is Tough for Band Directors to Teach
…especially if they did not have a decent methods class.
One of the projects I have had students do in the horn pedagogy class in...
Optimism/Realism/Pessimism and the Horn Player
Right now I have over thirty posts in various stages of underway. This post when still in progress I initially titled “Abused by the...
Stories of Nutcrackers Past
Sunday afternoon I heard an excellent performance of an extended suite of selections from The Nutcracker performed by the ASU Symphony Orchestra on their...
Before Farkas: Preparatory Instructor for French Horn (1937) on Tonguing
In working on a project this past year related to Philip Farkas I have had a nagging feeling that there has to be some...
A New Version of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante
James Bash of Oregon Music News reports that
There’s a big mystery behind Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major. Since the original manuscript has never...
Pondering the Warm-Up, and Learning Double Tonguing of Scales and Arpeggios
The following post is a combination of two posts from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dating to 11/23/04 and 11/30/04.
Recently on the horn...
Who Plays What Brand of Horn?
A question a lot of people wonder is who plays what horn and also the related, larger question of what is a professional quality...
PSA: Brief Notes on Bell’s Palsy
Yesterday I was involved with a DMA defense of an interesting project on overuse injury prevention in string players. A number of the topics...
Gunther Schuller on Achieving the Ultimate Articulation, Slur, and Tone Quality
Another article from the archive of the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, first posted on11/8/04.
This past year we have been honored to have IHS...
Review: Recent Innovations in Stop Mutes, and Notes on Stopping on the B-flat and...
New products are always of interest at Horn Matters. Recently I heard of a new type of stop mute made of wood, the Woodstop,...