Chamber Music Trumpet
SKU: CF.W2686
For Trumpet in
B-flat. Composed by
Jean-Baptiste Arban.
Edited by Thomas Hooten
Jennifer Marotta. SWS.
Collection - Performance.
With Standard notation.
32 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #W2686. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.W2686).
ISBN
9781491150948. UPC:
680160908448. 9x12
inches.
This new
edition of Jean Baptiste
Arban's Fourteen
Characteristic Studies
for Trumpet in Bb, edited
by Thomas Hooten and
Jennifer Marotta, was
specifically written to
provide the student with
suitable material with
which to test his powers
of endurance, according
to Arban himself.
The
following fourteen
studies have been
specifically written to
provide the student
withsuitable material
with which to test his
powers of endurance. In
taking up these studies,
he willdoubtless be
fatigued, especially at
the outset, by those
numbers requiring an
unusual length ofbreath.
However, through careful
study and experience he
will learn to overcome
the difficultiesand will
acquire the resources
which will enable him to
master this particular
phase of playingwith
ease. As a means to this
end, attention is drawn
to cantabile passages in
particular, whichshould
be played with the utmost
expression, yet at the
same time with as much
modified toneas possible.
On the cornet, as with
the voice, clear tones
may be obtained by
widening thelips and
veiled tones by
contracting them. This
happy circumstance allows
the performer
anopportunity to rest
while still continuing to
play, and at the same
time enables him to
introduceeffective
contrasts into the
execution. It should be
noted that by little
artifices of this kind,
andby skillfully
conserving his resources,
the player will reach the
end of the longest and
mostfatiguing pieces, not
only without difficulty,
but even with a reserve
of strength and
power,which, when brought
to bear on the final
measures of a
performance, never fails
to impress anaudience.At
this point my task as
professor (using the
written instead of the
spoken word) will
end.There are things
which appear clear enough
when stated verbally but
which when written downon
paper cause confusion,
seem obscure, and even
sometimes appear
trivial.There are other
things of such an
elevated and subtle
nature that neither
speech nor wordcan
clearly explain them.
They are felt, they are
conceived, but they are
not to be explained;and
yet these things
constitute the elevated
style, the grand ecole,
which it is my ambition
toestablish for the
cornet, just as they
already exist for singing
and for the various kinds
of otherinstruments.Those
of my readers who are
ambitious and who want to
attain this high level of
perfection,should above
all things, always try to
hear good music well
interpreted. They must
seek out,among singers
and instrumentalists, the
most illustrious models,
and by doing this
purifytheir taste,
develop their sentiments,
and bring themselves as
near as possible to that
which isbeautiful.
Perhaps then the innate
spark which may someday
be destined to
demonstrate theirown
talent, will reveal
itself and render them
worthy of being, in their
turn, cited and
imitatedin the
future.
Jennifer Thomas
