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Composing for Brass:
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Appropriate phrase lengths to allow time for performers to breathe
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When writing for horn, avoid huge leaps
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Horns are great with dynamic control
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Horns and trumpets are transposing instruments! Most common are: Horn in F, Trumpet in Bb
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Trumpet has a range of different mutes for a variety in tone colour
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Trombone is played based on slide positions. The best glissando interval is a tritone
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Tuba is quite agile in the higher register
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