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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Brass instruments"”.
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A method for the teaching of brass instruments in the public schools
… I felt a need of a method for the teaching of brass instruments. Most teachers whose major instrument is not a member of the brass family have had too little opportunity to study and find out what is necessary for developing a good breass instrument player. In far too many cases a teacher is …
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A catalogue of the European cornets and trumpets at the Shrine to Music Museum
… location and identification of historical brass instruments.
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A catalogue of the brass musical instruments of the Carl Busch Collection at the University of Illinois
… Busch Collection contains approximately 250 wind instruments of the early-nineteenth through the early-twentieth centuries. Perhaps the most significant of the 119 brass instruments are a set of American Civil War Era over-the-shoulder instruments, three Antoniophones, a Besson cornophone, and …
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Articulation in brass playing : the tongue - friend or foe?
… the role the tongue plays in articulation in brass playing. It briefly examines oral anatomy, physiology and theories on motor learning, and describes the tongue's position in producing English speech sounds. It shows how these positions are used to teach different articulation techniques on …
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Exploring Low Brass Recording Techniques
… of recognized standards for the recording of low brass instruments. This project aims to articulate quality techniques for low brass recording through research in early recording techniques and through an experimental study comparing many popular stereophonic microphone techniques. Although …
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Jean-Georges Kastner's Traité general d'instrumentation: A Translation and Commentary
… treatise discusses the standard orchestral instruments and several obscure and ancient instruments. Intended principally for young composers, it provides the most detailed descriptions of the standard wind instruments of his day and discusses recent developments like the ophicleide and …
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An Examination of Laude: Four Character Sketches for Solo Trumpet in B-flat or C by Stanley Friedman, together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Joseph Haydn, George Fredrick Handel, Eric Ewazen, and Others
… is a composer of many works, primarily for brass instruments, that have become part of the standard repertoire. Solus, for Trumpet Unaccompanied, for example, appears on many audition and competition lists, as do others of his works. On the other hand, Laude: Four Character Sketches for Solo …
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Calming The Waves Double Wind Orchestra
… “Little Cow Herding,” presented by woodwind and brass instruments, creating an open-minded and long-lasting artistic conception. The second part (mm. 59-369) depicts the poet walking under a storm and his tolerant attitude, introducing a new fast pentatonic melody as the image of the rain comes …
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Doubling on Euphonium and Tuba: A Guide for Euphonium Players
… elements involved in performing on two different brass instruments.;Based on predetermined criteria, the subjects interviewed are Patrick Sheridan, Fritz Kaenzig, and David Zerkel.
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Toward a Semiotic Approach to Analyzing the Trombonist's Repertoire
… but have mostly overlooked those qualities in brass instruments. Musicologists Trevor Herbert and David Guion have studied historical qualities of the trombone, usually discussing the trombone as a signifier of sacred topics. This view of the trombone is important but far too limited in scope. …
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The manufacture of tuned percussion instruments in Indonesia and Africa: a selective study
… the manufacture of Javanese gamelan percussion instruments, the second examines the manufacture of xylophones in Central African Republic, Ghana and Zambia, and the third examines the acoustics of xylophones. Part I: Gamelan is a generic term for a set of instruments consisting primarily of …
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A collection of cadenzas for the trumpet concertos of Franz Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel
… of the stylistic traits of cadenzas of other brass instruments from the classical period.Following the introductory five chapters, chapter six contains the compilation of transcribed and published cadenzas. The cadenzas are cross-referenced in a table located at the beginning of the chapter. …
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Use of Electronic Music in Brass Solo Literature
Brass and electronics is a relatively new performance genre from the late twentieth century that incorporates ever-advancing audio and computer technology. Over the last fifty years, the genre has advanced tremendously, comprised of hundreds of works across the brass family. As a performer, I …
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Amateur brass and wind bands in Southern England between the late eighteenth century and circa 1900
… the development of largely working-class amateur brass and wind bands in southern England in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It begins by describing the beginnings of widespread amateur banding and considers the contribution made to the later development of bands by militia and …
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Acoustic pulse reflectometry for the measurement of musical wind instruments
… measured radii to within 0.05mm. Various brass instrument reconstructions of similar accuracy are presented. An input impedance curve, calculated from the input impulse response of the test object, is found to have peak frequencies which agree with those of a theoretical curve to within …
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Nonlinear Acoustics in a General Waveguide
… applications---the clearest example is that of brass instruments, where it has been demonstrated that nonlinear wave steepening gives rise to the characteristic ``brassy'' sounds of, for example, the trombone. As the ducts of these instruments have a very complicated geometry involving …
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From Bendinelli to Arban: Styles of Articulation Within Selected Trumpet Method Books
… for all those who aspire to play valved brass instruments"1 and a seminal source for methods to follow it in like manner of articulation principles. The plan for this paper is: (1) to discuss the trumpeter's role and the use of trumpet; (2) to explore how articulation was addressed with …
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A History of the CCM Brass Choir
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) Brass Choir, founded by Ernest N. Glover, has played an important role in the development of brass musicians at CCM since its inception in 1946. Many former members have gone on to successful careers in the world’s leading orchestras, chamber ensembles and …
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The effect of lip-slur practice on increasing pitch range in brasswind instrument students
… of many professional and serious amateur brasswind players. There are several reasons why so many players practise lip-slurs. One of those reasons is the belief that lip-slurs contribute to the development of the brasswind high register. This study argues that while there is a vast amount …
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The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music
… expression beyond the boundaries of the body; brass instrument musicking, however, begins not where the sound emerges from the bell, but at the very least at the meeting point of the player’s breath, the surfaces of the body, and the tube of the instrument. This project of instrumental …
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