Mastery of the French Horn: Technique and Musical Expression

(Brass). Mastery of the French Horn is for intermediate to advanced players, for improving technique and finding new levels of musical expression. Includes chapters, most with exercises or musical excerpts: Advanced Daily Technical Exercises; The Art of Practicing; The Way to an Individual Tone; Shaping the Music; Which Horn for Which Music?; The Horn and Horn Playing over the Centuries (a short manual of style); The Cadenza in the Solo Literature; Competitions, Juries, Auditions and Solo Performances; Horn Playing as a Profession; Literature about the Horn. Read more