HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: The Case of the Mysterious F: A Detective Story by Clifford Bevan
The most recent discussion in the Historical Instruments Column of the English F tuba was in 2008. The context was an investigation into Vaughan Williams’s…
Author: Craig Kridel
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: The Dawn of Exploration for the English Bass Horn? by Craig Kridel
New interest is emerging for instruments that have been a mere afterthought to the church serpent and ophicleide-namely, bass horns. The editors of second edition…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Forty Years On (Clifford Bevan)
Forty years on, growing older and older, Shorter in wind, as in memory long. Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder, What will it…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Restoring the Euphonium’s Legacy as Cello of the Wind Band: A Call for Action
In 2010, ITEA established the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research, a biennial program seeking to encourage the highest level of research in the area…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: The Ophimonocleide: Folly or Genius?
This essay continues an ongoing review of the mysterious and perplexing world of early 19th century bass horns (also known as upright serpents). Thus far,…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Don’t Deride the Ophicleide by Clifford Bevan
The way my maternal grandfather died was like this: Bill was a steam-powered, agricultural engine driver, retired by the time I knew him. I couldn’t…
