Added another article, How to Get a Music Scholarship, to HubPages. It is based on my experience on audition committees at three different universities: small (Arkansas Tech University–6,000 students), medium (University of Northern Iowa–15,000 students), and large (Brigham Young University–35,000…
Month: July 2010
Aren't We Just Little Angels?
Added another article, Trombone History: Cherubs Playing the Trombone, to HubPages. It talks about (and shows) several visual depictions of cherubs (or putti) playing trombone. Check it out here.
List of Standard Brass Quintet Repertoire
Recently added another article, Top 50 Brass Quintets, to Hub Pages. The list is a starting point that I use in coaching brass chamber music at the college level. It’s not comprehensive by any means, but it provides college quintets…
What's in a Name?
Just added an article to Hub Pages, Trombone Names Throughout History, on the colorful and varied nomenclature of the trombone. It can be found here.
Trombone History: A Mischievous Trombonist
Added another article to HubPages: A Mischievous Trombonist in Renaissance Italy. It’s a fairly entertaining account of a 16th-century trombonist who can’t seem to keep himself out of trouble early in his career but goes on to musical prominence. Check…
Bones on the Water: The Trombone in Water Processions
Just wrote an article on Trombones in Water Processions for HubPages, my first online article outside this website. Although the trombone was not included in the most famous water procession music, Handel’s Water Music, it did take part in quite…
Pair of Ophicleide Images
Last week I posted Ophicleide History and Images. What does this subject have to do with trombone history? Well, the ophicleide, as I point out in that post, is a predecessor to the tuba and a fellow low brass member….
Serpent & Ophicleide: History and Images
I recently came across two humorous ophicleide images from 19th century France (1847 and 1862, below) while doing some trombone history research. The ophicleide, by the way, is a fellow low brass instrument—a 19th century invention that is considered a…
Two More on Paper: Sketches for St. Cecilia Trombone Images
About a month ago I posted Canvas, Paper, Silver, and Glass: St. Cecilia Trombone Image in Many Forms, tracing the life of an image originally conceived as a painting through several artistic media. Since then I have located two sketches…
Old Germany: The Trombone in Augsburg
Augsburg, second only to Trier among Germany’s oldest cities, has been the site of considerable trombone activity since the trombone’s beginnings in the 15th century. A painting of the Augsburg Cathedral that I recently added to the Trombone History Timeline…