Fluegel

ISBN 9783932275838. German English.

In their book, Ralph T. Dudgeon and Franz X. Streitwieser present a detailed analysis of the members of the fluegelhorn family represented in the Streitwieser Collection in Instrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg. They explain the evolution of this family of instruments, from early forms of halfmoon signal horns, keyed bugles, Italian flicorni, and Clarinhorns to modern fluegelhorns. The technical evolution of the instruments was closely connected to musical performance practices of the times.

SKU: HL.49019255

ISBN 9790001179645. UPC: 888680010683. 9.25x12.0x0.28 inches.

Although the organ clearly represents the centre of the musical action in Jean Guillou's Concerto No. 5 'Le Roi Arthur', the accompanying brass quintet has an important role. Like the noble knights at the legendary Round Table of King Arthur, horn, trumpet, fluegelhorn, trombone and tuba group themselves musically around the 'King of the Instruments'. In the brass sound, both soft and dynamic, they lay the harmonic foundation, with the music written for them developing into fanfare-like figures. They always make a caesura when the organ is about to play its imaginative and virtuoso sound passages.Precision and technical assurance are required to orchestrate this picturesque sound puzzle effectively from a seemingly mythical time.