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.

Friday, 25 September 2009

Musicality and musical content

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Lyle Sanford has been pondering on my musings on musicality . The interesting thing about his response is how it veers between expressing re...
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Monday, 14 September 2009

"8 Simple Rules" for playing in an orchestra

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8. Make sure that you have everything you need with you at rehearsal That includes instrument, mouthpiece, music, stand (unless supplied by ...
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Sunday, 13 September 2009

On "cheating" when you play the horn

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Not all horn parts are actually playable. Not all composers have enough of an understanding of the horn in order to write horn parts that ar...
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Friday, 11 September 2009

A bit more on musicality

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It seems that I can never be satisfied with just one post on a topic, I always have to go back for another bite at it. I found that my inabi...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Musicality

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Some time back Lyle Sanford asked in passing if I might write a bit about what I understand of this topic. And I’ve thought and though...
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Sunday, 30 August 2009

Performance etiquette

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An issue that came up in the Yahoo mailing list a while ago is how quickly you lift your horn up and put it down at the start and end of a p...
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Monday, 17 August 2009

Chamber music and watching each other

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I've just come back from a week of music-making up at the Edinburgh Fringe. The concerts were very enjoyable though the audiences were d...
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