Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance: Softcover Book [Paperback]

Douglas Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001

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!!

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075790159X
• ISBN-13: 978-0757901591
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #668,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A master teacher shares his thoughts, July 4, 2007

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Jean M. Rife (Brookline, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance: Hardcover Book (Hardcover)

Douglas Hill is one of my mentors--a great player, a master teacher, a kind person, and a strong analytical mind. He is a terrific diagnostician and a healer of horn problems, and I have grown by both his example and his teaching. In this book, he shares his thoughts about several different subjects relating to playing the horn, and gives the possibility of moving through those nasty "stuck" places in one's technique. Unfortunately, the student who borrowed my copy has not returned it (and I can't remember who has it), so I am ordering another.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent concise guide for the art of horn playing, April 29, 2010

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Prof Michael Teuber "m.t." (Zurich, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance: Softcover Book (Paperback)

You find everything you might like to know on learning and playing the french horn. The life long experience of an engaged horn teacher and player is speaking out of every chapter and sentence. It is a pleasure to find critical evaluations of the craft and techniques of performance, the process of teaching and learning, creativity and the complete musical self, and finally literature and repertoire: the means and the end. Interesting afterthoughts call for actions e.g. in the research on antique roman and etruscan instruments. Finally a key to music publishers completes this little book of 200 pages which are written in a clear and understandable language. A must for every amateur, student and professional horn player, and affordable as well.
Michael Teuber, Switzerland