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Horn Repertoire Week 12: The Wagner Tuba

Continuing our look at some of the standard works horn players perform often from the nineteenth century our next topic is the Wagner tuba....

Horn Repertoire Bonus Week: Stuck in the Nineteenth Century

We are not actually stuck there, but there is a ton to cover and, due to a quirk of the semester schedule at ASU...

Horn Repertoire Week 11: The Valved Horn in the Later 19th...

Continuing forward in horn history, some of our best, most characteristic horn literature (especially orchestral) dates to the second half of the nineteenth century....

Horn Repertoire Week 10: The Early Valved Horn

This week we have one fairly long reading that, with the linked readings, covers a lot of ground! The Early Valved Horn The Konzertstuck and...

Horn Repertoire Week 9: The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period

This week our discussion will focus on topics discussed in and articles linked from the following article: The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period Two...

Horn Repertoire Week 8: Approaches to Classical Literature Today

This week the focus of the class is on performance tactics for works that are fairly frequently performed from the Classical and early Romantic...

Horn Repertoire Week 7: The Classical Natural Horn

This week we will focus in on the topic of the natural horn in the solo and chamber works of Mozart, Haydn, and more. A...

Horn Repertoire Week 6: Who Invented Hand-Horn Technique, and the Early...

This week our look at horn history crosses an important boundary, into the world of the early Classical horn. Hand horn technique was the game...

Horn Repertoire Week 5: The Descant Horn and Approaches to Baroque...

One goal this semester is to use repertoire as not only a broad overview of history but also to look at performance of literature...

Horn Repertoire Week 4: Review of Literature for Horn in the...

The repertoire portion of the course is organized as an overview of the historical development of the horn, from the earliest days of the...

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