John Ericson
Two Recent Works for Horn by Aliyah Danielle
With the graduation of two DMA students this semester I wanted to feature here the works associated with their projects. First up is Dr....
Does your horn spark joy?
Very recently I went through a round of testing various horns in a nice space. One had come in that I was testing for...
Fundamentals 18A. Bass clef: old (and new) notation bass clef
Number 18 on the list of fundamentals in the Douglas Hill book, which I have used to guide this series, to my mind involves...
My Mellophonium Mood
This 2008 article, very slightly updated here, originally appeared in the Horn Articles Online website
One thing I became very interested in during the summer...
Fundamentals 17. Transpositions
Lightning quiz: What is the most popular page in the entire Horn Matters website? That article is by Bruce Hembd on the topic of...
Broken links? UPDATE: Horn Articles Online is not online
It has come to my attention that within Horn Matters all links to materials in my original Horn Articles Online site (online since 1998...
Sabbatical horn update: improved details
Back in the spring of 2021 I was on sabbatical from Arizona State, and, as reported here in Horn Matters, my project involved horn...
Fundamentals 16. Muted horn: tonal control, responses, projection, noiseless manipulation of mute
Mutes?!? It is very interesting to me that Douglas Hill included in his list of fundamentals (found in his Collected Thoughts book) a special...
Fundamentals 15. Stopped horn: tonal control, responses, projection, F and B-flat fingerings
Continuing our series on fundamentals (using, as prompts, the list of fundamentals found on pages 92-93 of the Douglas Hill book of Collected Thoughts),...
Fundamentals 14. Lip trills: fluency, control at all dynamics, knowledge of all fingerings, also...
Lip trills are a must for any hornist playing on the level to perform a Mozart concerto movement.
Spoiler alert: Lip trills are easier on...