Author name: Edward H. Tarr

Trumpet player and musicologist. Former director of the Trumpet Museum in Bad Säckingen, Germany (1985 to 2004), and former professor of modern and Baroque trumpet at the Basel Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland (1972 to 2001).

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Bach and the Others: Eighteenth-Century Trumpeter-Hornists

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In this article, Edward H. Tarr discusses the potential roles that trumpeters may have had during the era of Bach, not merely as trumpet performers but also as proficient multi-instrumentalists, with a particular focus on the horn. Additionally, Tarr conjectures about the plausible nomenclature and purpose of the coiled horn depicted in the famous portrait of Gottfried Reiche and in other pictorial representations from the same period. The publishing rights for this article have generously been granted to the International Journal of Music by Dr. Irmtraud Tarr, the widow of Edward H. Tarr.

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The Unnatural Trumpet: The Adoption of Vent Holes in the 1960s and ’70s

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With the founding of the Cappella Coloniensis in 1954 by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, historically informed performance style was adopted by the modern orchestral scene. (Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus had preceded this group by one year.) The orchestra’s instrumentation was copied from that of the Dresden court orchestra in the late 17th century. Not only were old string instruments found and rebuilt to 17th-century standards; it was also necessary to build models of Baroque and Classical woodwind and brass instruments. Another similar ensemble which I soon joined was the Collegium Aureum. It was founded in 1962, also in Cologne, by the record label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. In both of these groups, the natural trumpet resisted adoption.

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Oskar Böhme Revisited

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In 1997 the ITG Journal published my article, “The Böhme Brothers, Oskar and Willi.” Under the simpler title, “The Böhme Brothers,” it has since been expanded into Chapter 5 of my book, “East Meets West,” which at the time of this writing is going to press under the auspices of the Historic Brass Society (HBS) and the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) in the Pendragon Press’ Bucina series. Here I will only dwell briefly on that material, in order to examine certain aspects of Böhme and his time in greater detail. (NB. There will be no footnotes in the sections of this article derived from “East Meets West,” where all relevant details can be found.)

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