Blog
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Super Slides!
Just added another trombone history article to HubPages: Super Slides: Trombones with Extension Handles. It covers pictoral representations from the 16th century through the 19th century. Check it out here.
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Trombone History in Latin America
Posa chapel exterior, Puebla, Mexico, 1550-1556
Just added another article to HubPages: Trombone History in Latin America, 1500-1750. There’s a surprising amount of trombone activity in colonial Latin America, including some fascinating visual depictions. Check out the arti...
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Brass Trio List
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 a...
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How Do You Hold This Thing? Trombone Grip in Iconography
Added another article to HubPages, How to Hold a Sackbut: The Grip of the Trombone in Pictures. The way the early trombone was held has performance implications, including where first position was, what key the instrument was in, etc. Check out the article, with its 33 histor...
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Getting Music Scholarships
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 Y...
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Aren't We Just Little Angels?
Fra Semplice da Verona, detail from Infant Jesus and Musical Angels, c. 1629
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...
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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 an idea of some of the standard literature.
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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.
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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 it out here.
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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 a few water processions in t...
