You Play the What? Euphonium

As a musician, one of the most common questions I received was "What kind of instrument do you play?" When I answered, the facial expression was messed up. "What is the tenor?" They asked. This happened not only to me but to all Europeanists who received this question. The word euphonium is not familiar to most people, but it is not so. Euphonium, a rich and beautiful tone, is a solo player with a leading role in the military and concert band. The euphonium is a conical hole, the name is a baritone turbid brass instrument that comes from Greek euphonos.

Simone Mantia (1873-1951), American baritone horn / sub audio player born in Italy, was also a trombone artist of the early 20th century. As a soloist for the band of Sousa and Pryor, Mantia was the first minor instrument player to record and advertise this non-orchestral instrument in the USA. Leonardo Falcone (1899-1985), American baritone / secondary soloist born in Italy, arranger, professor, director of the Michigan State University Band, and a teacher of many famous tenor artists. Falcone is a music festival named after Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival, which are major venues for American instruments, strengthening the passionate baritone style of opera.

Arthur W. Lehman (1917-2009), a soloist named a recording artist and an American naval band 'Art' pointed out an euphonium writer as a secondary art work. Lehman Brothers was a student of Harold Brush and Simone Mantier, who unveiled the concept of rich resonance without using Mantier's vibrato. Brian Bowman, a soloist of the US Navy Band (1971-75) and the American Air Force Band (1976 - 1991), now a professor of Euphonium at the University of North Texas, "Urban Tronone and Euphonium Method" collaborator Bowman, Falcone 'S album with soft British sound and passion and became the most famous artist in the US at the end of the 20th century through recording, education and the first Woofer concert at Carnegie Hall.

Recently some people try to play more exotic works as seen in Astron Piazzolla 's Six Tango Etude (written for flute), a Japanese musician, Shoichiro Kitazei recorded. Among them, even the ninth one has been adapted. It brings a serious range and technical difficulties for submid. One of the fields of literature in harmony with the original literature is the way of writing the so-called "French Conservatory" 1 Starting in the first half of the 20th century, composer Joseph Edward Bharat (1882-) 1963)