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Horn Repertoire Week 14: A Course of Study
One of the goals of this course is to prepare graduate students for comprehensive exams.
A comprehensive overview
An ideal outcome of this course is that...
Horn Repertoire Bonus Week: Stuck in the Nineteenth Century
We are not actually stuck there, but there is a ton to cover and, due to a quirk of the semester schedule at ASU...
On Teaching (and Studying) Effectively
With the first semester of the University of Horn Matters horn pedagogy course nearly complete it seems like a good time to re-post the...
Hornmasters on Transposition
For younger students of the present day who are handed a copy of The Art of French Horn Playing to help them get a...
University of Horn Matters: The Early Valved Horn
The years between 1814 and 1850 saw the introduction of the valved horn into music and many changes in horn technique, especially in the...
Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part III: Brophy, Tuckwell, and Reynolds
To conclude this series on double and triple tonguing, we turn to William R. Brophy, who suggests in his Technical Studies for Solving Special...
Hornmasters on Staccato, Part II: Fox, Berv, and Hill
Staccato tonguing is a problem for many horn students. In part I of this article Farkas and Schuller laid out their approaches to teaching...
4 Key Things the Great Horn Players Have
You love the horn. You want to ramp it up to a new level. Besides accuracy and general technique there are four key things...
Silverado, and Why We Play the Horn
One project I gave to the studio last week was for everyone to learn the opening six bars of Silverado. Why I did this...
Four Tips for Getting Back in Shape after Taking a Break
Recently I picked up my horn again after a 4-week break. I like to take summer breaks for several reasons many of which I...