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On Applying for a College Horn Teaching Position

Besides performing, a lot of advanced horn students have dreams of teaching the horn full time at the college level. In The Musician’s Way...

Review: Daily Routines by Marian Hesse

Among a growing library of publications from Mountain Peak Music are a pair of books - Daily Routines for Horn and Daily Routines for the...

A quick look at “A Horn like Dennis Brain Played”

At the upcoming international horn symposium I will be presenting a session titled “A Horn like Dennis Brain Played.” On it I will be...

FECHOPS: Some Brief Memories of Calvin Smith

FECHOPS -- Iron Chops -- that was on the license plate of Calvin Smith. It is with sadness we at Horn Matters report his...

Hornmasters: Kaslow on Support and Compression

By design I have not quoted much in this series from recent publications. I am a firm believer in actually reading books and especially...

Hornmasters: What Etudes to Practice

Etude practice has long been a standard way to train and cross-train horn technique. The thing to think about though is the topic of...

Review: Etudes for Horn by Paul Basler

Back almost a year ago I was describing my teaching materials and the final article of that series was devoted to noting what materials...

Hornmasters: More Recent Thoughts on the Warm-Up

While to this point this series has focused on older published sources on the horn, at this time we turn a corner toward three...

Understanding Wagner and the Horn (my best article)

Most every semester people working on research projects contact me about various topics related to the horn in the 19th century. This spring in...

Main Bersama-Sama for Horn and Gamelan

Back two years ago in my report on the 2009 Southeast Horn Workshop, hosted by Travis Bennett at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC,...