Added another article, Top 20 Brass Trios, to HubPages. It is basically a list I draw from as coordinator of brass chamber music at BYU. As I note in the article, I generally steer students toward forming into quintets, but that’s not always logistically possible, and trios are a good alternative. There are more and [...]
List of Standard Brass Quintet Repertoire
July 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Circus Musicians: At Least They Have a Gig!
February 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I recently added a painting, Fernand Pelez’s Grimaces and Misery, to the 19th century timeline (2nd half). Dating from 1888, it is an exact contemporary of Georges Seurat’s Parade de cirque (which I’ve also included below). Although there are obvious stylistic differences, the similarities in subject matter of the two paintings have been noted by [...]
Trombone History: Bruckner and the Trombone
November 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Added the below new entries to the 19th century timeline (2nd half) on Bruckner’s use of trombone with voices from Mary Rasmussen’s “A Bibliography of Choral Music with Trombone Ensemble Accompaniment, as Compiled from Eleven Selected Sources” Brass Quarterly 5 (Spring 1962), 109-113. c. 1850—Anton Bruckner’s Psalm CXIV calls for 5 voices and 3 trombones. [...]
Trombone History: Mini-Bibliography
November 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Where to start? Writing a trombone history paper and want to know where to begin? Below is a condensed bibliography listing some good introductory sources. The first category contains books on trombone (or brass in general), while the second contains a sampling of sources that are not trombone-specific, but are nonetheless rich in material about [...]
Barlow Prize Announced: New Concerto to be Premiered by Joseph Alessi
September 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University has announced Benjamin Ellin as winner of the 2009 Barlow Prize, which includes a $20,000 cash prize and a commission to compose a new concerto for trombone and orchestra. The concerto will be premiered by Joseph Alessi with the BYU Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011. British [...]
Webpage Updates
October 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
November 20, 2008 Trombone History Timeline: Posted an entry from another primary source. This one, an English dictionary titled A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences, printed in London in 1763-64, is noteworthy because it describes the sackbut, even at this relatively late date, as “a sort of trumpet,” and because it mentions multiple sizes of [...]