Horn Thoughts

One of my passions is music, I play the french horn in a number of amateur ensembles. I've been contributing to a couple of horn mailing lists for several years. In that time, I've written reams of advice and comment, and I think it is about time I tried to put it all together. So starting from today I'm going to put together some of my better pieces on this blog so that I can more easily refer to them and so you can comment on them.

Saturday, 20 June 2009

The art of sight reading

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Sight-reading is a skill that can be mastered at any age. I've taught it to people of all ages who previously thought that is was a blac...
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Friday, 19 June 2009

Eroica last movement

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We're nearly at the end! I hope that some people have been reading this and have hopefully both learned from it and enjoyed it. I will t...
Friday, 12 June 2009

Eroica third movement

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(Different prints of the score have differing opinions as to how the bars should be numbered, particularly in this movement. I'm going b...
Saturday, 6 June 2009

Producing a "projected" sound

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In my articles on the Eroica, I've mentioned more than once that you should play solo passages with a "projected" sound. What ...
Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Eroica second movement

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We come to the second movement of the Eroica, the Marcia Funebre. The movement is in C minor, horns 1 and 2 are in C, with Horn 3 in Eb, par...

THAT solo in the first movement of the Eroica

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I've had some discussions with people on the Yahoo Horn mailing list concerning the solo at bar 412 of the first movement, and researchi...
Monday, 1 June 2009

Interpreting the Eroica Symphony

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Playing Beethoven is a bit strange. Traditionally, we don’t think of Beethoven as requiring the delicacy of touch demanded by Mozart, and Be...
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