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Brass scholarship in review : proceedings of the Historic Brass Society Conference, Cité de la Musique, Paris, 1999

Features articles which cover topics from early hunting horn signals, Renaissance trumpeters, metals used in early instrument manufacture to 19th-century topics including work on Adolph Sax and discoveries at Gautrot makers.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, N.Y., ©2006
Bucina, no. 6
Congress
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781576471050, 1576471055
172964114
Brass Days in Paris, Jeffrey NussbaumIntroduction, Stewart CarterThe History of the Bancho Family of Trumpeters: A Study in Patronage and Welfare in Renaissance Parma, Russell E. Murray Jr.""Sir Tristrams measures of blowing,"" Jacques du Fouilloux, and the English Hunting Horn Repertory of the Baroque Era, Peter DowneyBrass Instruments in Masonic Ceremonies: The Building of ""the Athens of the North"", Alexander McGrattanEvaluation of the Composition and Technological Properties of Historical Brass in Instrument Manufacture of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Karl Hachenberg, translated by Howard WeinerTrombone Ensembles of the Moravian Brethren in America: New Avenues for Research, Stewart CarterChristian Friedrich Daniel Schubart's Remarks on the Cornett, Gerhard StradnerGautrot-Aîné, First of the Moderns, William WaterhouseAdolphe Sax and the Paris Opéra, Ignace De Keyser, edited by Keith PolkPrinted Editions of Music for Brass Bands and Military Bands by German and Austrian Publishers in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, Bernard HablaOskar Böhme Revisited: Young Musicians' Training, Instruments, and Repertoire in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Edward H. TarrFriedrich Gumpert (1841-1906) and the Performing Technique of the Valved Horn in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany, John EricsonOff-Centered Embouchure in Brass Playing, Benny Sluchin and Pierre DanaTrumpet Design and Acoustical Characteristics, Arnold Myers and D. Murray CampbellBrass Playing Before Globalization, Robert PhilipREPORTS ON DISCUSSION SESSIONSBrass Recordings Session with Andrew Parrott, Matthew HafarPedagogy Session, Matthew HafarIndex, Sorange Rodriguez