Trumpet Journey

Category: Baroque Trumpet

  • Happy birthday, Walter Holy!

    Happy birthday, Walter Holy!

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    I received a message this morning from my teacher, Friedemann Immer, the great German baroque trumpeter. He pointed out that today was HIS teacher’s birthday. Walter Holy would have been 100 years old today. Holy was ground-breaking in that he was the first to really play on the valveless baroque trumpet in modern times. Trained…

  • Accompanied trumpet duets from the Baroque

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    A couple of days ago I wrote a blog that explored some unaccompanied trumpet duets for the stage. Today, I would like to share some of my favorite trumpet duets with accompaniment–all from the Baroque era, starting with the Johann Pezel Sonata No. 69 for two trumpets played by Miha Peter. Here are two capricci…

  • Exotic articulation

    Exotic articulation

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    On the trumpet, we have the basic articulations of single tongue, triple tongue and double tongue. These are well-explained in most methods, although I should state that there are different opinions about the sequence for triple tongue. Arban stipulated t-t-k, but many trumpeters instead play t-k-t. Every now and then we have to do something…

  • More on articulation

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    After posting yesterday’s blog on articulation (single tonguing), I was surprised by some interest in this article–especially philosophical differences. Today, I’d like to quote a Wikipedia article to start us off with a definition of what articulation is: Articulation is a fundamental musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is…

  • A great baroque trumpet project

    A great baroque trumpet project

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    Note from editor: this post is directly from Julian Zimmermann, one of my favorite natural baroque trumpet players on the earth today. He sent me this by email last night, and I lightly edited it. He is planning a recording project which will try to authentically recreate some cantatas by Telemann with trumpet, by not…

  • A performance of Biber on natural baroque trumpet

    A performance of Biber on natural baroque trumpet

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    Just a quick note to share a wonderful video recording made by natural trumpeter, Jean François Madeuf, and a group called the Rossetti Players. They are playing the Sonata à 6 by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. This performance/recording was made in the Franziskanerkirche in Vienna using the oldest organ in Austria: the Wöckherl-Orgel of 1642. This…