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This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and provides a series of case studies including major works from the horn repertoire by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. It includes chapters on the historical background of the instrument, its design and development, and choice of instrument today.
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This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and provides a series of case studies including major works from the horn repertoire by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. It includes chapters on the historical background of the instrument, its design and development, and choice of instrument today.
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The twentieth century has seen an immense number of changes in performance practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fixed mouthpipe, hand horn players, cor basse, hand horn technique, valve horn, bell throat, early horn, horn obbligato, master crook, horn writing, modern horn, third valve, second cor, natural horn, stopped notes, horn playing, hand stopping, double horn, horn concerto, horn parts, first horn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paris Conservatoire, Leopold Mozart, Giovanni Puzzi, Louis Dauprat, New Instructions, The Compleat Tutor, Covent Garden, Giovanni Punto, Joseph Lewy, Adolf Borsdorf, Antonio Rosetti, Charles Harper, Eduard Kruspe, Eduard Lewy, Friedrich Gumbert, Heinrich Domnich, Jean Mohr, Pierre-Joseph Meifred New!
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The twentieth century has seen an immense number of changes in performance practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fixed mouthpipe, hand horn players, cor basse, hand horn technique, valve horn, bell throat, early horn, horn obbligato, master crook, horn writing, modern horn, third valve, second cor, natural horn, stopped notes, horn playing, hand stopping, double horn, horn concerto, horn parts, first horn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paris Conservatoire, Leopold Mozart, Giovanni Puzzi, Louis Dauprat, New Instructions, The Compleat Tutor, Covent Garden, Giovanni Punto, Joseph Lewy, Adolf Borsdorf, Antonio Rosetti, Charles Harper, Eduard Kruspe, Eduard Lewy, Friedrich Gumbert, Heinrich Domnich, Jean Mohr, Pierre-Joseph Meifred New!
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- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove on 18 pages
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (20 Volume Set) by Stanley Sadie on 15 pages
- New Grove Dictionary by Sadie on 15 pages
- On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz on 5 pages
- The Interpretation of Music by Thurston Dart on 4 pages
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- Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by David Rowland in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Back Matter
- The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Robin Stowell in Front Matter
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