From the Editor (excerpt from the original publication, 1995)

Although I am usually hesitant to make predictions, I will take a chance this one time: this issue of The Horn Call Annual, No. 7, will be the most frequently used publication of the International Horn Society to date. "Horn Call Index, 1971-1995," by Phillip Michael (Mick) Sehmann, was originally the dissertation for his 1990 doctorate at the University of Iowa. It has been revised an updated for The Horn Call Annual to serve as a complete index of the first twenty-five volumes of The Horn Call and the first six volumes of The Horn Call Annual. Mick is currently the horn professor at Eastern Kentucky University.

The Horn Call Index is divided into several chapters or sections: an Introduction, which serves as a description of the project and the index; an annotated bibliography of all the articles for the first twenty-five volumes (fifty-two issues) of The Horn Call; an annotated bibliography of the first six issue of The Horn Call Annual; an index of articles by author; an index of articles by subject; and an index of literature reviews by medium (i.e., horn and piano, horn in chamber music, etc.) and composer/author.

Readers will find Mick's index to be an invaluable aid in locating articles and literature reviews that have been published in The Horn Call since its first issue in February 1971....Special thanks should go to Mick Sehmann for sharing with all of us the fruits of what must have been Herculean labor...

Johnny L. Pherigo, Editor

Horn Call Index, 1971-1995

Phillip Michael Sehmann

Introduction (excerpted)

Since its inception in June of 1970, the International Horn Society has served as the primary medium for the exchange of knowledge and insights for players and teachers of horn. Article II from the Constitution of the International Horn Society states that "the purpose of this Society shall be to establish contact between horn players of the world for the exchange and publication of ideas and research into all fields pertaining to the horn." With these goals in mind, the International Horn Society began publishing a biannual journal in February of 1971, The Horn Call. A refereed journal, The Horn Call Annual, was added in 1989 and is issued annually. In 1994 a third issue of The Horn Call was added, creating, along with The Horn Call Annual, a quarterly publication. Although the publication has periodically printed indexes of the major articles contained in selected volumes or groups of volumes, it has never issued a complete index of articles, nor has it included annotations with any of these volume indexes.

The purpose of this monograph is to increase the usefulness and accessibility of The Horn Call and The Horn Call Annual by providing an annotated bibliography that will allow readers easy reference to the contents of all issues through Volume XXV, No. 3. Annotations are provided for each article...

The annotations have been kept as short as possible while still conveying the essential focus of the article. Each annotation is accompanied by one or more abbreviations that correspond to the subject headings of the subject index (see Table 1). This provides users with a general idea of the primary emphasis of the article...

Limitations

Every attempt has been made to keep the annotations as objective as possible while still conveying the article's intent. A conscious attempt has been made to refrain from criticizing the articles or making editorial comments.

Many of the articles from the early volumes include short biographical sketches of the author following the article. Due to the large number of these and their tendency to be quite short, they are not listed. It is recommended that users of this bibliography who need biographical information on these authors use the author index to locate articles where these biographies might appear. The short biographical sketches, such as the "In Memoriam" features, which appear separately from other articles are listed but not annotated. Lengthier biographies, profiles, and interviews are annotated when deemed appropriate. Entries in the biographies category are listed alphabetically by the person being profiled, unlike the other subject categories, which are listed alphabetically by author. Articles which contain biographical information on more than one individual are listed alphabetically by author.

Summaries of International Horn Society workshops, financial statements, etc., have not been annotated if the title of the article clearly states the article's focus. If the title fails to convey clearly the article's focus, a short annotation is included. Personnel lists, such as those under the title "Orchestras around the world," which contain listings of players but have no accompanying text, have been included but not annotated. The regular articles by Christopher Leuba and John Dressler which feature recordings have been included but have not been annotated unless they include listings of special significance.

Regular columns such as "News Notes of Members and Clubs," "Coming Events," and "Letters to the Editor" are important features but are quickly out of date, and because of their eclectic nature are difficult to annotate; therefore they have not been included. The collections of humorous short anecdotes, which have appeared under such titles as "Memorabilia," "Smile," "Afterbeats," or which are untitled, have also been omitted, as well as photographs, poems, recital and concert programs, indexes of articles from The Horn Call, and advertisements. Any entries of the aforementioned categories containing information considered to be of particular interest or relevance have been included. The spellings of names and places used within the annotations have been kept consistent with those used in the article being annotated. This has caused a number of inconsistencies (e.g., Leutgeb vs. Leitgeb, Cologne vs. Köln). Obvious misspellings have been corrected if possible.

Category Abbreviations:

Accuracy Acc
Acoustics Acou
Auditions Aud
Bibliographies Bib
Biographies Bio
Breathing Brea
Discographies Disc
Embouchure Emb
Ensembles Ens
Equipment and Modifications Eqmt
Health Hea
History Hist
Humor Hum
International Horn Society IHS
Jazz and Popular Styles Jz
Maintenance and Repair Mnt
Mouthpieces Mthpc
Muting and Stopping MtSt
National Styles and Trends NtSty
Natural Horn NtHn
Pedagogy Ped
Personnel Lists Prsnl
Range Rng
Recording Techniques Rec
Repertoire Study Rep
Technique Tech
Tone Tn
Transposition Trns
Tuning and Intonation Tun
Valves Vlv
Warm-ups Wmup
Workshops, Clinics, etc. WkSh
Miscellaneous Misc