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Understanding the Wagner Tuba: a practical guide for horn players (2024)

Gaizka Ciarrusta Insagurbe

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Horn players have the duty to play the Wagner tuba when the repertoire demands it, but do they really know how to do it and how to adapt to the change of instrument? Mastering the Wagner tuba and feeling confident on stage can be a difficult task. Not having one's own instrument, nor subjects or teachers dedicated to the teaching of this instrument complicates its knowledge and preparation. Therefore, this research aims to facilitate and educate in this process, providing the most relevant information both intellectually and practically and offering a complete overview of it. Following an inductive methodology based on written sources, an exhaustive technical analysis and the experience of professional horn players, it tries to answer questions such as why Richard Wagner created this instrument, what role it plays in the orchestra and what demands its performance requires. For all this, if you are a horn player and have to play the Wagner tuba or have already played it but have had no previous education, the results of this research will guide you in the process and will make you obtain a higher level of interpretation and knowledge.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsWagner tuba, French horn, Wagner new instruments, Instruments and Techniques
date14/11/2023
published16/05/2024
last modified16/05/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightGaizka Ciarrusta
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2379015/2379016
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.2379015
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue1. Master Research Projects


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