Lineage of the Baritone Horn and Euphonium by Earle Louder

[dwerden]

The ever-effervescent educator Earle Louder has given me permission to post his doctoral dissertation from Florida State University, titled "An Historical Lineage of the Modern Baritone Horn and Euphonium." It's a great read and filled in quite a few gaps in my own knowledge. Take a look when you're in the mood:

http://www.dwerden.com/forum/content.ph ... -euphonium

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[The Big Ben]

The ever-effervescent educator Earle Louder has given me permission to post his doctoral dissertation from Florida State University, titled "An Historical Lineage of the Modern Baritone Horn and Euphonium." It's a great read and filled in quite a few gaps in my own knowledge. Take a look when you're in the mood:

http://www.dwerden.com/forum/content.ph ... -euphonium

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Fun article. Great illustrations in the appendix of drawings of the various instruments being played. The drawings clearly show the difference between a baritone horn and an euphonium.

[imperialbari]

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I stopped the reading, maybe temporarely, because this was like reading an old and partially outdated encyclopedia.

The distinction between whole-tube and half-tube instruments hardly was relevant even when it was written 40 years ago. The playability of pedal notes is a matter of the player's skills and of choice of mouthpiece more than anything else. The same goes for the range of instruments.

Klaus

[dwerden]

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Sorry about that! I see the comments box as an administrator and I thought I had it set up so everyone could. But I'm not able to get it working yet for standard logged-in users, so I opened a support ticket with the software publisher. I assume it's something I'm missing in the setup. Thanks for letting me know.

I realize the information is not up to date, but I wanted this article because it's a good historic snapshot of what a researcher would find at that time. It has some valuable information in my view.

I wrote a similar paper about 15 years later (which I will share when I have time to format it), and even then I found out-of-date information among well-regarded sources. I was fortunate to have access to two college/university music libraries and a stack of reference material I had accumulated over previous decades, but it was not nearly what we take for granted today. It has only been in more recent years that reference definitions of "baritone horn" and "euphonium" were consistent and mostly accurate, for example (speaking of the USA terms).

[imperialbari]

If the US terminology were consistent today, nobody would speak of double belled euphoniums, but rather of double belled baritones.

Despite being wrecked by the bad ASCII interpretations of a few too many passages through diverse servers this outing on the topic still stands when it comes to present the spirit behind the still very messy nomenclature:

http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/jul2001 ... 61604.html

Klaus

PS: The spelling of the said Polish term is róg.