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

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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.

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