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Aug 7, 2017

Voice leading - an introduction

It is cool and damp here in Colorado this morning - it feels like fall. The sound of (gulp) drum lines fills the air. My high school band...

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Aug 6, 2017

A quick word about MIDI

MIDI has come a long way in 30 years and there are some really good MIDI sampled sounds. But music that sounds right coming out of your...

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Aug 5, 2017

Four Dimensional Texture

This blog is a way to collect my thoughts and 'ship em.' This is modeled after the blogging philosophy of Seth Godin (one of my daily...

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Aug 4, 2017

Damned by faint praise

In about 1843, Hector Berlioz wrote in his famous Treatise on Instrumentation "The bass tuba possesses an immense advantage over all...

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Aug 3, 2017

Opportunities to write for the alto trombone

I know some trombonists who just felt a disturbance in the force. My brass ensemble has 6 treble instruments and 5 bass instruments,...

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Aug 2, 2017

What mouthpiece do you play?

Most of the trumpet players I play with usually play C trumpet in public, so I used to write only C trumpet parts. But there was some...

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Aug 1, 2017

With tinny blasts on tiny trumpets

The title of this entry is a portion of one of my favorite quotes (see below) by cartoonist Walt Kelly. Of course, this is not at all how...

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