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Author: Jeffrey L. Snedeker Publisher: ISBN: 9780578934488 Category : International Horn Society (Interlochen) Languages : en Pages :
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This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the International Horn Society that promotes musical education with particular reference to the (French) horn. Over its first fifty years, the society has held workshops, lectures, and seminars open to the public, published a Journal as well as periodic newsletters and membership lists, awarded of grants and scholarships, commissioned new music featuring the horn, established close working relationships with music teachers, and presented honors and recognition for distinctive service relating to the horn. This book examines these activities and more in pictures and historical accounts based on archival research.
Author: Jeffrey L. Snedeker Publisher: ISBN: 9780578934488 Category : International Horn Society (Interlochen) Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the International Horn Society that promotes musical education with particular reference to the (French) horn. Over its first fifty years, the society has held workshops, lectures, and seminars open to the public, published a Journal as well as periodic newsletters and membership lists, awarded of grants and scholarships, commissioned new music featuring the horn, established close working relationships with music teachers, and presented honors and recognition for distinctive service relating to the horn. This book examines these activities and more in pictures and historical accounts based on archival research.
Author: Douglas Hill Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing ISBN: 9780757906855 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 222
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Douglas Hill is professor of music and horn at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as well as a past President of the International Horn Society, and a respected teacher and clinician. The 27 chapters of Collected Thoughts cover topics ranging from getting started to preparing for college and professional auditions, and include other subjects such as composing and improvising. There are seven chapters on repertoire that include reviews of music and texts that are the most comprehensive of any horn (or other instrumental) text to date. The process of learning and teaching is extremely insightful for everyone, from the serious student to the most experienced instructor. This book is a must for anyone interested in the horn. It is invaluable!!
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : International Horn Society (Interlochen) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Features the International Horn Society, which was founded for the purpose of spreading knowledge about the French horn and its repertoire. Provides membership information and highlights the newsletter of the society.
Author: Eli Epstein Publisher: ISBN: 9780985427238 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This book is a result of Eli Epstein's 18 years in the Cleveland Orchestra and 30 years of Conservatoire teaching. It breaks down into four parts, dealing with Technique, Musicianship, Warm up and Exercises and finally Applying the Method. It is both innovative and inspiring and presents his theories in a clear and understandable way, which gives the reader much to think about and practical ideas to help improve one's playing. An excellent addition to any horn enthusiast's collection.The third edition presents MRI images and data of an elite group of horn players, including Stefan Dohr, Fergus McWilliam, Sarah Willis, Stefan Jezierski (all of the Berlin Philharmonic), Marie-Luise Neunecker, Jeff Nelsen, and others. MRI films confirm that what we do internally, inside the mouth, pharynx, and thoracic cavity is just as important as what we do externally. And, just as there are hallmarks of healthy embouchures that most professional horn players employ, there are many consistent internal movement patterns among the elite group. Epstein presents tried and true methods to learn and teach these exemplary biomechanics. "Without a doubt the most physiologically correct book ever published on horn playing." ~John Ericson, Horn Matters
Author: Robert Lee Watt Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442239395 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 301
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The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist hired by a major symphony in the United States. Today, few African Americans hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating—and at times painful—experience. The Black Horn chronicles the upbringing of a young boy fascinated by the sound of the French horn. Watt walks readers through the many obstacles of the racial climate in the United States, both on and off stage, and his efforts to learn and eventually master an instrument little considered in the African American community. Even the author’s own father, who played trumpet, sought to dissuade the young classical musician in the making. He faced opposition from within the community—where the instrument was deemed by Watt’s father a “middle instrument suited only for thin-lipped white boys”—and from without. Watt also documented his struggles as a student at a nearly all-white major music conservatory, as well as his first job in a major symphony orchestra after the conservatory canceled his scholarship. Watt subsequently chronicles his triumphs and travails as a musician when confronting the realities of race in America and the world of classical music. This book will surely interest any classical musician and student, particularly those of color, seeking to grasp the sometimes troubled history of being the only “black horn.”
Author: Jasper Rees Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061979716 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 444
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In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society. Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and play a Mozart concerto—solo—to a large paying audience. A Devil to Play is the true story of an unlikely midlife crisis spent conquering sixteen feet of wrapped brass tubing widely regarded as the most difficult instrument to master, as well as the most treacherous to play in public. It is the history of man's first musical instrument, a compelling journey that moves from the walls of Jericho to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from the hunting fields of France to the heart of Hollywood. And it is the account of one man's mounting musical obsession, told with pitch-perfect wit and an undeniable charm—an endearing, inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement, relayed masterfully, one side-splittingly off-key note at a time.
Author: Frances Jones Publisher: Vernon Press ISBN: 1648891365 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 336
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‘The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in culture, literature and the arts across the globe, and the ways in which the instrument has been specifically utilised by the Swiss as the iconic representation of their country. This book also explores the use of the musical language of the alphorn call, to ascertain why and how such references as those of Berlioz or Beethoven can convey so much meaning. Dr Jones seeks out what it is that a composer brings into the concert hall, the theatre, the opera house, the church, or the drawing room by such a quotation, to what heritage they are referring, and upon what basis there are grounds for an assumption that such a reference will be understood by an audience. The book, which will be of interest to researchers in Swiss cultural studies and ethnomusicology, builds on Dr Jones’s research and PhD thesis. The six chapters deal with a variety of topics, including a basic introduction to the alphorn and an exploration of the promotion of the instrument as the symbol of Switzerland, as well as the reasons behind symbolic references to alphorn motifs by European and British composers in concert repertoire, jazz and film.
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