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Dukas Villanelle and the Natural Horn

The first of two posts on performing Dukas Villanelle, posted on 9/18/05 in the original Horn Notes Blog Villanelle by Paul Dukas is certainly among...

Podcast on The Brass Gym

The episode of The MelloCast for this week, episode 46, focuses on The Brass Gym for horn, a comprehensive book and CD for warm-up...

How Loud is too Loud?

This post is from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog; this particular post dates to 8/6/05, and was from the end of a summer...

On Learning the B-flat Horn Fingerings with Louis Stout

A topic that has come up in several lessons recently is that of learning B-flat horn alternate fingerings in the middle register where I...

The Horn of Franz Strauss

As I mentioned to the horn repertoire class today at Arizona State, it is not very widely known but the horn used by the...

French and German Musical Terms and the Horn Player

Years ago, I worked out a handy, one page document that is a list of French and German musical terms based on words encountered...

Horn in E-flat Means What?

One topic that has come up for me as a question a number of times over the years is that of horn in E-flat....

The Mellophone Intonation Smackdown

I am on episode 40 of The Mellocast, the weekly podcast on all things mellophone. This episode is one of their best, on the...

On Horn in H and Haydn 46

A topic that comes up periodically in my teaching is horn in B-natural. Many horn players I am sure are confused the first time...

The Mid-low Register and Technique Development

An observation: there are horn teachers who don’t work with their students much on technical development. This is a shame. There really is a...