Extended Techniques Audio Examples
Audio examples to accompany Extended Techniques for the Horn by Douglas Hill. The PDF version of this book is available through IHS Online Music Sales.
Example 1 — Common Playing Range
Example 2 — Possible Playing Range (Extreme)
Example 3 — Straight Mute
Example 3 — Brass Mute
Example 3 — Plunger Mute
Example 3 — Cup Mute
Example 3 — Whisper Mute
Example 3 — Glass Mute
Example 3 — Cloth Mute
Example 4 — Mute Sounds, Degrees
Example 5 — Mute Sounds, Gradual Changes; Unmeasured Rapid Mute Changes
Example 6 — Unmeasured Rapid Mute Changes with Multiple Tonguing
Example 7 — Brass Mute Variations
Example 8 — Stopped Horn
Example 9 — 1/2 to 3/4 Stopped Horn, or Echo
Example 10 — 1/2 Step Hand Glissando
Example 11 — Greater Than Half Step Hand Glissando
Example 12 — Rapid Hand Changes with Multiple Tonguing
Example 13 — Scoop Up, Scoop Down
Example 14 — Tonguing, Punctuated, Aggresive
Example 15 — Tonguing, Smoother, Softer
Example 16 — Tonguing, Miscellaneous, Split Tongue
Example 17 — Releases, Abrupt and Accented
Example 18 — Tonguing, Double (DIDL)
Example 19 — Tonguing, Rapid Irregular
Example 20 — Tonguing, Flutter
Example 21 — Trills
Example 22 — Trills, Flexible Speed
Example 23 — Trills, Irregular
Example 24 — Valve Tremolo
Example 25 — Valve Tremolo, Flexible Speed, Irregular
Example 26 — Tremelo, Like Fingerings
Example 27 — Tremolo Unlike Fingerings
Example 28 — Glissando
Example 29 — Glissando, Harmonic, Chromatic
Example 30 — Glissando, Valve Flutter, Contour
Example 31 — Glissando, Oscillating
Example 32 — Interrupted Glissando
Example 33 — Bend_Dip, Doink_Doit, Fall-Off_Drop, Spill
Example 34 — Flip, Rip_Smear, Lift_Flair, Plop
Example 35 — Half-Valve, Definite Pitch
Example 36 — Half-Valve, Indefinite Pitch
Example 37 — Ghost Tones
Example 38 — Half-Valve, Glissandos
Example 39 — Half-Valve, Oscillation, Tremolo, Harmonic
Example 40 — White Noise_Static, Breathy Tone
Example 41 — Sucked Pitch, Buzz Tone, Kissing Sounds
Example 42 — Vowel Sound Production
Example 43 — Enharmonic Fingerings
Example 44 — Descriptive Sounds (Dog, Bird, Siren, Etc.)
Example 45 — Vibrato, Various Speeds
Example 46 — Vibrato, Various Widths
Example 47 — Vibrato, Various Intensity
Example 48 — Vibrato, Trembling, Machine-Like, Wa-Wa
Example 49a — Quarter Tones, Scale
Example 49b — Quarter Tones, Various
Example 50 — Horn-Chords
Example 51 — Melody And Pedal Point
Example 52 — Unison Singing And Playing, Stationary And Variable Beats
Example 53 — Air Sounds
Example 54 — Air Flutter, Articulated Air Sounds
Example 55 — Mouthpiece Effects_ Hand Pops, Glissando
Example 56 — Mouthpiece, Kissing, Muted
Example 57 — Mouthpiece, Siren, Whistle, Pop, Whoosh
Example 58 — Tubular Tones, Trills, Tremolos, Thop
Example 59 — Sympathetic Vibrations In The Piano
Example 60 — Sympathetic Vibrations, Drum, Cymbal, Bow
Example 61 — Flutter Tongue Glissando
Example 62 — Flutter Tongue Trills And Tremolos
Example 63 — Trilled Glissando
Example 64 — Flutter With Alternating Muted Effects
Example 65 — Flutter With Vocalized Gliss. Or Vibrato
James Decker Interview
This interview with IHS Honorary Member James Decker was done in the mid 1990s with a public radio station in Maine.
Audio
Presenting performances by Honorary Members of the IHS.
John Barrows and Michael Höltzel perform Bernard Heiden's Five Canons for Two Horns. Recorded live at the 1971 IHS Symposium.
Daniel Bourgue performs Honorary Member Georges Barboteu'sPrintemps live at the 1982 IHS Symposium in Avignon, France.
Alan Civil plays Mozart's Concert Rondo, k371, at the 1983 International Horn Symposium.
James Decker and Pianist Nancy Bricard perform the first movement of the Sonata for Horn and Piano of Halsey Stevens.
Michael Hatfield plays Villanelle by Paul Dukas, recorded live at the 1983 IHS Symposium in Charleston, Illinois.
Charles Kavalovski plays the last movement of the Sonata by Bernard Heiden, recorded live at the 1973 IHS Symposium in Pomona, California.
David Krehbiel plays Bozza's En forêt at the 1971 IHS Symposium at Florida State University
A "Featured Artist Quartet" from the 1971 Symposium included Honorary Members, Dale Clevenger, Philip Farkas, Michael Höltzel and David Krehbiel. Here is their performance of a Gallay quartet.
Lucien Thévet plays the Long Call from Siegfried
Past President Frøydis Ree Wekre plays Honorary Member Vitaly Bujanovsky'sEspaña live at the 1982 IHS Symposium in Avignon, France.
Vitaly Buyanovsky plays Schumann's Adagio & Allegro*
Vitaly Buyanovsky plays Rossini's Prelude, Theme & Variations*
* Thanks to Frøydis Ree Wekre for obtaining these recordings and permission to present them here