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Composing for Brass:

  • Appropriate phrase lengths to allow time for performers to breathe

  • When writing for horn, avoid huge leaps

  • Horns are great with dynamic control 

  • Horns and trumpets are transposing instruments! Most common are: Horn in F, Trumpet in Bb

  • Trumpet has a range of different mutes for a variety in tone colour

  • Trombone is played based on slide positions. The best glissando interval is a tritone

  • Tuba is quite agile in the higher register

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